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This work addresses the critical challenge of guaranteeing safety for complex dynamical systems where precise mathematical models are uncertain and data measurements are corrupted by noise. We develop a physics-informed, direct data-driven…

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This work is concerned with developing a data-driven approach for learning control barrier certificates (CBCs) and associated safety controllers for discrete-time nonlinear polynomial systems with unknown mathematical models, guaranteeing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-17 Behrad Samari , Omid Akbarzadeh , Mahdieh Zaker , Abolfazl Lavaei

In this work, we propose a compositional scheme based on small-gain reasoning to synthesize safety controllers for interconnected stochastic hybrid systems. In our proposed setting, we first offer an augmented scheme that characterizes each…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Mahdieh Zaker , Omid Akbarzadeh , Behrad Samari , Abolfazl Lavaei

Infinite networks are complex interconnected systems comprising a countably infinite number of subsystems, for which no fixed upper bound on the number of participating subsystems is specified a priori since it may vary over time as agents…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Mahdieh Zaker , Amy Nejati , Abolfazl Lavaei

We develop a data-driven framework for the synthesis of robust Krasovskii control barrier certificates (RK-CBC) and corresponding robust safety controllers (R-SC) for discrete-time input-affine uncertain polynomial systems with unknown…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-29 Omid Akbarzadeh , MohammadHossein Ashoori , Amy Nejati , Abolfazl Lavaei

This paper offers a direct data-driven approach for learning robust control barrier certificates (R-CBCs) and robust safety controllers (R-SCs) for discrete-time input-affine polynomial systems with unknown dynamics under…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-22 Omid Akbarzadeh , MohammadHossein Ashoori , Abolfazl Lavaei

This work is concerned with a formal approach for safety controller synthesis of stochastic control systems with both process and measurement noises while considering wireless communication networks between sensors, controllers, and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-12 Omid Akbarzadeh , Sadegh Soudjani , Abolfazl Lavaei

In this paper we consider the safety verification and safe controller synthesis problems for nonlinear control systems. The Control Barrier Certificates (CBC) approach is proposed as an extension to the Barrier certificates approach. Our…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-22 Han Wang , Kostas Margellos , Antonis Papachristodoulou

This work establishes a crucial step toward advancing data-driven trajectory-based methods for stochastic systems with unknown mathematical dynamics. In contrast to scenario-based approaches that rely on independent and identically…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-01 Abolfazl Lavaei

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

Synthesizing safety controllers for general nonlinear systems is a highly challenging task, particularly when the system models are unknown, and input constraints are present. While some recent efforts have explored data-driven safety…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-12 Behrad Samari , Abolfazl Lavaei

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

In this paper, we propose a compositional framework for the construction of control barrier certificates for large-scale stochastic switched systems accepting multiple control barrier certificates with some dwell-time conditions. The…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-05 Ameneh Nejati , Sadegh Soudjani , Majid Zamani

Synthesising safe controllers from visual data typically requires extensive supervised labelling of safety-critical data, which is often impractical in real-world settings. Recent advances in world models enable reliable prediction in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Mehul Anand , Shishir Kolathaya

This work is concerned with synthesizing safety controllers for discrete-time nonlinear systems beyond polynomials with unknown mathematical models using the notion of k-inductive control barrier certificates (k-CBCs). Conventional CBC…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-11 Ben Wooding , Abolfazl Lavaei

Safety-critical control tasks with high levels of uncertainty are becoming increasingly common. Typically, techniques that guarantee safety during learning and control utilize constraint-based safety certificates, which can be leveraged to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-07 Alexandre Capone , Ryan Cosner , Aaron Ames , Sandra Hirche

This paper is concerned with a compositional scheme for the construction of control barrier certificates for interconnected discrete-time stochastic systems. The main objective is to synthesize switching control policies against…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-06 Mahathi Anand , Abolfazl Lavaei , Majid Zamani

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

This work develops a theoretical framework for safety controller synthesis in discrete-time stochastic nonlinear polynomial systems subject to time-invariant delays (dt-SNPS-td). While safety analysis of stochastic systems using control…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-09 Omid Akbarzadeh , MohammadHossein Ashoori , Amy Nejati , Abolfazl Lavaei
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