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By computing Lyapunov functions of a certain, convenient structure, Lyapunov-based methods guarantee stability properties of the system or, when performing synthesis, of the relevant closed-loop or error dynamics. In doing so, they provide…

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This paper deals with data-driven stability analysis and feedback stabillization of linear input-output systems in autoregressive (AR) form. We assume that noisy input-output data on a finite time-interval have been obtained from some…

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Machine learning techniques have demonstrated their effectiveness in achieving autonomy and optimality for nonlinear and high-dimensional dynamical systems. However, traditional black-box machine learning methods often lack formal stability…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-03 Kun Wang , Roberto Armellin , Adam Evans , Harry Holt , Zheng Chen

Learning controllers merely based on a performance metric has been proven effective in many physical and non-physical tasks in both control theory and reinforcement learning. However, in practice, the controller must guarantee some notion…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-24 Arash Mehrjou , Mohammad Ghavamzadeh , Bernhard Schölkopf

We present a data-driven framework based on Lyapunov theory to provide stability guarantees for a family of hybrid systems. In particular, we are interested in the asymptotic stability of switching linear systems whose switching sequence is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-13 Adrien Banse , Zheming Wang , Raphaël M. Jungers

Control Lyapunov function is a central tool in stabilization. It generalizes an abstract energy function -- a Lyapunov function -- to the case of controlled systems. It is a known fact that most control Lyapunov functions are non-smooth --…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-08 Pavel Osinenko , Grigory Yaremenko , Georgiy Malaniya

This paper studies data-driven stabilization of a class of unknown polynomial systems using data corrupted by bounded noise. Existing work addressing this problem has focused on designing a controller and a Lyapunov function so that a…

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This paper presents a data-driven approach for jointly learning a robust full-state observer and its robustness certificate for systems with unknown dynamics. Leveraging incremental input-to-state stability (delta ISS) notions, we jointly…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-07 Juho Bae , Daegyeong Roh , Han-Lim Choi

Safety and stability are common requirements for robotic control systems; however, designing safe, stable controllers remains difficult for nonlinear and uncertain models. We develop a model-based learning approach to synthesize robust…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-08 Charles Dawson , Zengyi Qin , Sicun Gao , Chuchu Fan

Establishing stability certificates for closed-loop systems under reinforcement learning (RL) policies is essential to move beyond empirical performance and offer guarantees of system behavior. Classical Lyapunov methods require a strict…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Kehan Long , Jorge Cortés , Nikolay Atanasov

Diffusion models have made significant strides in recent years, exhibiting strong generalization capabilities in planning and control tasks. However, most diffusion-based policies remain focused on reward maximization or cost minimization,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-01 Xiaoyuan Cheng , Xiaohang Tang , Yiming Yang

TRUST is an open-source software tool developed for data-driven controller synthesis of dynamical systems with unknown mathematical models, ensuring either stability or safety properties. By collecting only a single input-state trajectory…

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This paper develops a direct data-driven framework for infinite networks with unknown nonlinear polynomial subsystems, enabling the synthesis of controllers that ensure the entire network is uniformly globally asymptotically stable (UGAS).…

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Aiming at the difficulty of stability analysis in practical application of existing control methods, a controller strategy based on lyapunov stability theory is proposed to realize stable control for any control method. In order to…

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Robust data-driven controllers typically rely on datasets from previous experiments, which embed information on the variability of the system parameters across past operational conditions. Complementarily, data collected online can…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-19 Ignacio Sanchez , Filiberto Fele , Daniel Limon

Traditional reinforcement learning lacks the ability to provide stability guarantees. More recent algorithms learn Lyapunov functions alongside the control policies to ensure stable learning. However, the current self-learned Lyapunov…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-19 Sarvan Gill , Daniela Constantinescu

In this paper, we focus on the problem about direct way to design a stable controller for nonlinear system. A framework of learning controller with Lyapunov-based constraint is proposed, which is intended to transform designing and analyis…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Me Le , Chi Yanxun , Li Zhiwei , Xu Dongfu , Zhang Yulong

This paper tackles state feedback control of switched linear systems under arbitrary switching. We propose a data-driven control framework that allows to compute a stabilizing state feedback using only a finite set of observations of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-05 Zheming Wang , Guillaume O. Berger , Raphaël M. Jungers

Control design for general nonlinear robotic systems with guaranteed stability and/or safety in the presence of model uncertainties is a challenging problem. Recent efforts attempt to learn a controller and a certificate (e.g., a Lyapunov…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-05 Vivek Sharma , Pan Zhao , Naira Hovakimyan