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In this paper, we present a novel data-driven approach to quantify safety for non-linear, discrete-time stochastic systems with unknown noise distribution. We define safety as the probability that the system remains in a given region of the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-10 Frederik Baymler Mathiesen , Licio Romao , Simeon C. Calvert , Luca Laurenti , Alessandro Abate

Safe control with guarantees generally requires the system model to be known. It is far more challenging to handle systems with uncertain parameters. In this paper, we propose a generic algorithm that can synthesize and verify safe…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-12 Simin Liu , Kai S. Yun , John M. Dolan , Changliu Liu

We consider the problem of designing an invariant set using only a finite set of input-state data collected from an unknown polynomial system in continuous time. We consider noisy data, i.e., corrupted by an unknown-but-bounded disturbance.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-28 Alessandro Luppi , Andrea Bisoffi , Claudio De Persis , Pietro Tesi

In this paper, we provide a direct data-driven approach to synthesize safety controllers for unknown linear systems affected by unknown-but-bounded disturbances, in which identifying the unknown model is not required. First, we propose a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-16 Bingzhuo Zhong , Majid Zamani , Marco Caccamo

This work proposes a robust data-driven predictive control approach for unknown nonlinear systems in the presence of bounded process and measurement noise. Data-driven reachable sets are employed for the controller design instead of using…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-18 Mahsa Farjadnia , Amr Alanwar , Muhammad Umar B. Niazi , Marco Molinari , Karl Henrik Johansson

Modern nonlinear control theory seeks to endow systems with properties such as stability and safety, and has been deployed successfully across various domains. Despite this success, model uncertainty remains a significant challenge in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-02 Andrew J. Taylor , Victor D. Dorobantu , Sarah Dean , Benjamin Recht , Yisong Yue , Aaron D. Ames

Finding a controlled-invariant set for a system with state and control constraints is crucial for safety-critical applications. However, existing methods often produce overly conservative solutions. This paper presents a method for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-12 Naeim Ebrahimi Toulkani , Reza Ghabcheloo

This paper addresses the challenge of integrating explicit hard constraints into the control barrier function (CBF) framework for ensuring safety in autonomous systems, including robots. We propose a novel data-driven method to derive CBFs…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Jaemin Lee , Jeeseop Kim , Aaron D. Ames

We address the problem of designing a stabilizing closed-loop control law directly from input and state measurements collected in an open-loop experiment. In the presence of noise in data, we have that a set of dynamics could have generated…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-31 Andrea Bisoffi , Claudio De Persis , Pietro Tesi

As we transition towards the deployment of data-driven controllers for black-box cyberphysical systems, complying with hard safety constraints becomes a primary concern. Two key aspects should be addressed when input-output data are…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-13 Luca Furieri , Baiwei Guo , Andrea Martin , Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate

We present a true-dynamics-agnostic, statistically rigorous framework for establishing exponential stability and safety guarantees of closed-loop, data-driven nonlinear control. Central to our approach is the novel concept of conformal…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-12 Ting-Wei Hsu , Hiroyasu Tsukamoto

We consider the problem of designing finite-horizon safe controllers for a dynamical system for which no explicit analytical model exists and limited data only along a single trajectory of the system are available. Given samples of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-15 Mohamadreza Ahmadi , Arie Israel , Ufuk Topcu

Ensuring safety in cyber-physical systems (CPSs) is a critical challenge, especially when system models are difficult to obtain or cannot be fully trusted due to uncertainty, modeling errors, or environmental disturbances. Traditional…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-15 Mohammed Adib Oumer , Amr Alanwar , Majid Zamani

This paper presents a data-driven nonlinear safe control design approach for discrete-time systems under parametric uncertainties and additive disturbances. We first characterize a new control structure from which a data-based…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-13 Amir Modares , Bosen Lian , Hamidreza Modares

We present a robust data-driven control scheme for an unknown linear system model with bounded process and measurement noise. Instead of depending on a system model in traditional predictive control, a controller utilizing data-driven…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-14 Amr Alanwar , Yvonne Stürz , Karl Henrik Johansson

This paper presents a novel data-driven framework for the robust safety verification and safe control synthesis of unknown monotone discrete-time systems. While existing data-driven safety analysis approaches are often either heuristic in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Felipe Galarza-Jimenez , Majid Zamani , Saber Jafarpour

This paper presents a robust data-driven controller design based on the noisy input-output data without assumptions on the statistical properties of the noises. We start with the direct data-representation of system models that take…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-02-24 Chin-Yao Chang , Andrey Bernstein

The synthesis of robust invariant sets for nonlinear systems has traditionally been hindered by the inherent non convexity and a strict reliance on exact analytical models. This paper presents a purely data-driven framework to compute…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-01 Sahand Kiani , Constantino M. Lagoa

We consider the problem of verifying safety for continuous-time dynamical systems. Developing upon recent advancements in data-driven verification, we use only a finite number of sampled trajectories to learn a barrier certificate, namely a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-11 Luke Rickard , Alessandro Abate , Kostas Margellos

This paper presents a novel direct data-driven control framework for solving the linear quadratic regulator (LQR) under disturbances and noisy state measurements. The system dynamics are assumed unknown, and the LQR solution is learned…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-13 Ramin Esmzad , Gokul S. Sankar , Teawon Han , Hamidreza Modares