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This paper is concerned with the design of a linear control law for linear systems with stationary additive disturbances. The objective is to find a state feedback gain that minimizes a quadratic stage cost function, while observing chance…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-03 Georg Schildbach , Paul Goulart , Manfred Morari

Wasserstein distributionally robust control (DRC) recently emerges as a principled paradigm for handling uncertainty in stochastic dynamical systems. However, it constructs data-driven ambiguity sets via uniform distribution shifts before…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Jingyi Wu , Chao Ning , Yang Shi

We address an optimal control problem for linear stochastic systems with unknown noise distributions and joint chance constraints using conformal prediction. Our approach involves designing a feedback controller to maintain an error system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-10 Eleftherios E. Vlahakis , Lars Lindemann , Pantelis Sopasakis , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

In state estimation tasks, the usual assumption of exactly known disturbance distribution is often unrealistic and renders the estimator fragile in practice. The recently emerging Wasserstein distributionally robust state estimation (DRSE)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Yulin Feng , Xianyu Li , Steven X. Ding , Hao Ye , Chao Shang

We consider robust control synthesis for linear systems with complex specifications that are affected by uncertain disturbances. This work is motivated by autonomous systems interacting with partially known, time-varying environments. Given…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-27 Damian Frick , Tony A. Wood , Gian Ulli , Maryam Kamgarpour

The complexity of modern control systems necessitates architectures that achieve high performance while ensuring robust stability, particularly for nonlinear systems. In this work, we tackle the challenge of designing output-feedback…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-16 Clara Lucía Galimberti , Luca Furieri , Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate

This paper develops a framework for synthesizing safety controllers for discrete-time stochastic linear control systems (dt-SLS) operating under communication imperfections. The control unit is remote and communicates with the sensor and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-10 Omid Akbarzadeh , Mohammad H. Mamduhi , Abolfazl Lavaei

This work introduces a controller synthesis method via system level synthesis for nonlinear systems characterized by polynomial dynamics. The resulting framework yields finite impulse response, time-invariant, closed-loop transfer functions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-26 Lauren Conger , Jing Shuang Li , Eric Mazumdar , Steven L. Brunton

This paper concerns the adaptive control problem for a class of nonlinear stochastic systems in which the state update is given by a nonlinear function of linear dynamics plus additive stochastic noise. Such systems arise in a wide range of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-09 Lantian Zhang , Bo Wahlberg , Silun Zhang

We complete the first step towards the resolution of several decades-old challenges in disturbance-robust adaptive control. For a scalar linear system with an unknown parameter for which no a priori bound is given, with a disturbance that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-07 Iasson Karafyllis , Miroslav Krstic , Alexandros Aslanidis

Many traditional robust control approaches assume linearity of the system and independence between the system state-input and the parameters of its approximant (possibly lower-order) model. This assumption implies that the application of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-11 Mohammad Ramadan , Mihai Anitescu

Distributionally robust control is a well-studied framework for optimal decision making under uncertainty, with the objective of minimizing an expected cost function over control actions, assuming the most adverse probability distribution…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-12 Alexandros E. Tzikas , Lukas Fiechtner , Arec Jamgochian , Mykel J. Kochenderfer

We propose a robust model predictive control (MPC) method for discrete-time linear systems with polytopic model uncertainty and additive disturbances. Optimizing over linear time-varying (LTV) state feedback controllers has been…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-28 Shaoru Chen , Victor M. Preciado , Manfred Morari , Nikolai Matni

A major challenge faced in the design of large-scale cyber-physical systems, such as power systems, the Internet of Things or intelligent transportation systems, is that traditional distributed optimal control methods do not scale…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-01-23 Yuh-Shyang Wang , Nikolai Matni , John C. Doyle

The problem under consideration is the synthesis of a distributed controller for a nonlinear network composed of input affine systems. The objective is to achieve exponential convergence of the solutions. To design such a feedback law,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-26 Humberto Stein Shiromoto , Ian R. Manchester

Model Predictive Control (MPC) is widely recognized for its ability to explicitly handle system constraints. In practice, system states are often affected by disturbances with unknown distributions. While robust MPC guarantees constraint…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-11 Weijiang Zheng , Jiayi Huang , Bing Zhu

End-to-end engineering design pipelines, in which designs are evaluated using concurrently defined optimal controllers, are becoming increasingly common in practice. To discover designs that perform well even under the misspecification of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-10 Yash Patel , Sahana Rayan , Ambuj Tewari

This paper investigates the finite-horizon distributionally robust mixed-integer control (DRMIC) of uncertain linear systems. However, deriving an optimal causal feedback control policy to this DRMIC problem is computationally formidable…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Xutao Ma , Chao Ning , Wenli Du , Yang Shi

This paper investigates the robust optimal control of sampled-data stochastic systems with multiplicative noise and distributional ambiguity. We consider a class of discrete-time optimal control problems where the controller \emph{jointly}…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-05 Chung-Han Hsieh

Stabilization of linear systems with unknown dynamics is a canonical problem in adaptive control. Since the lack of knowledge of system parameters can cause it to become destabilized, an adaptive stabilization procedure is needed prior to…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Mohamad Kazem Shirani Faradonbeh , Ambuj Tewari , George Michailidis