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The robust stability problem involves designing a controlled system which remains stable in the presence of modeling uncertainty. In this context, results known as small gain theorems are used to quantify the maximum amount of uncertainty…
As we aim to control complex systems, use of a simulator in model-based reinforcement learning is becoming more common. However, it has been challenging to overcome the Reality Gap, which comes from nonlinear model bias and susceptibility…
Reinforcement learning significantly enhances LLM capabilities but suffers from a critical issue: length inflation, where models adopt verbosity or inefficient reasoning to maximize rewards. Prior approaches struggle to address this…
This paper proposes a tractable framework to determine key characteristics of non-linear dynamic systems by converting physics-informed neural networks to a mixed integer linear program. Our focus is on power system applications.…
Real-world control applications in complex and uncertain environments require adaptability to handle model uncertainties and robustness against disturbances. This paper presents an online, output-feedback, critic-only, model-based…
A learning approach for optimal feedback gains for nonlinear continuous time control systems is proposed and analysed. The goal is to establish a rigorous framework for computing approximating optimal feedback gains using neural networks.…
In this paper, incremental adaptive mechanisms are presented and characterized, to provide design hints for the development of continuous-time adaptive systems. The comparison with the conventional integral adaptive systems indicates that…
In this paper, the tracking control problem of a class of Euler-Lagrange systems subjected to unknown uncertainties is addressed and an adaptive-robust control strategy, christened as Time-Delayed Adaptive Robust Control (TARC) is…
To improve the predictive capacity of system models in the input-output sense, this paper presents a framework for model updating via learning of modeling uncertainties in locally (and thus also in globally) Lipschitz nonlinear systems.…
$\ell_1$ optimization is a well known heuristic often employed for solving various forms of sparse linear problems. In this paper we look at its a variant that we refer to as the \emph{partial} $\ell_1$ and discuss its mathematical…
We consider the problem of synthesizing robust disturbance feedback policies for systems performing complex tasks. We formulate the tasks as linear temporal logic specifications and encode them into an optimization framework via…
For deterministic continuous time nonlinear control systems, epsilon-practical stabilization entropy and practical stabilization entropy are introduced. Here the rate of attraction is specified by a KL-function. Upper and lower bounds for…
We consider the problem of direct data-driven predictive control for unknown stochastic linear time-invariant (LTI) systems with partial state observation. Building upon our previous research on data-driven stochastic control, this paper…
In this paper, we study the problem of control of discrete-time nonlinear systems in Lure form over erasure channels at the input and output. The input and output channel uncertainties are modeled as Bernoulli random variables. The main…
This paper considers the problem of regulating a linear dynamical system to the solution of a convex optimization problem with an unknown or partially-known cost. We design a data-driven feedback controller - based on gradient flow dynamics…
Reinforcement learning is typically treated as a uniform, data-driven optimization process, where updates are guided by rewards and temporal-difference errors without explicitly exploiting global structure. In contrast, dynamic programming…
This paper introduces a novel recursive distributed estimation algorithm aimed at synthesizing input and state interval observers for nonlinear bounded-error discrete-time multi-agent systems. The considered systems have sensors and…
In this paper, we present a novel method for computing the optimal feedback gain of the infinite-horizon Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) problem via an ordinary differential equation. We introduce a novel continuous-time Bellman error,…
Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) scales the reasoning ability of large language models (LLMs) but remains bottlenecked by limited labeled samples for continued data scaling. Reinforcement learning with intrinsic rewards…
This paper presents a data-driven solution to the discrete-time infinite horizon LQR problem. The state feedback gain is computed directly from a batch of input and state data collected from the plant. Simulation examples illustrate the…