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Reachability analysis is an important method in providing safety guarantees for systems with unknown or uncertain dynamics. Due to the computational intractability of exact reachability analysis for general nonlinear, high-dimensional…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-12 Elizabeth Dietrich , Rosalyn Devonport , Stephen Tu , Murat Arcak

To verify the correct operation of systems, engineers need to determine the set of configurations of a dynamical model that are able to safely reach a specified configuration under a control law. Unfortunately, constructing models for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-01-07 Shankar Mohan , Victor Shia , Ram Vasudevan

In this paper, a computationally efficient data-driven hybrid automaton model is proposed to capture unknown complex dynamical system behaviors using multiple neural networks. The sampled data of the system is divided by valid partitions…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-28 Yejiang Yang , Zihao Mo , Weiming Xiang

We model, simulate and control the guiding problem for a herd of evaders under the action of repulsive drivers. The problem is formulated in an optimal control framework, where the drivers (controls) aim to guide the evaders (states) to a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-01 Dongnam Ko , Enrique Zuazua

We present an algorithm for data-driven reachability analysis that estimates finite-horizon forward reachable sets for general nonlinear systems using level sets of a certain class of polynomials known as Christoffel functions. The level…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-29 Alex Devonport , Forest Yang , Laurent El Ghaoui , Murat Arcak

In this paper, we present an approach for designing feedback controllers for polynomial systems that maximize the size of the time-limited backwards reachable set (BRS). We rely on the notion of occupation measures to pose the synthesis…

Robotics · Computer Science 2013-06-03 Anirudha Majumdar , Ram Vasudevan , Mark M. Tobenkin , Russ Tedrake

This paper investigates reachability analysis for max-plus linear systems (MPLS), an important class of dynamical systems that model synchronization and delay phenomena in timed discrete-event systems. We specifically focus on backward…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-16 Yuda Li , Shaoyuan Li , Xiang Yin

We consider finite element approximations of ill-posed elliptic problems with conditional stability. The notion of {\emph{optimal error estimates}} is defined including both convergence with respect to mesh parameter and perturbations in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-03-25 Erik Burman , Mihai Nechita , Lauri Oksanen

We present a computational method for open-loop minimum-norm control synthesis for fixed-endpoint transfer of bilinear ensemble systems that are indexed by two continuously varying parameters. We suppose that one ensemble parameter scales…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-15 Luke S. Baker , Andre Luiz P. de Lima , Anatoly Zlotnik , Jr-Shin Li , Michael J. Martin

We propose a new, nonparametric approach to learning and representing transition dynamics in Markov decision processes (MDPs), which can be combined easily with dynamic programming methods for policy optimisation and value estimation. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-06-22 Steffen Grunewalder , Guy Lever , Luca Baldassarre , Massi Pontil , Arthur Gretton

Model Predictive Control (MPC) offers safe and near-optimal control but suffers from high computational costs. Approximate MPC (AMPC) mitigates this by learning a cheaper surrogate policy, typically by training a neural network on state-MPC…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-13 Elias Milios , Felix Berkel , Felix Gruber , Melanie N. Zeilinger , Kim P. Wabersich

We propose a methodology to design optimal pulses for achieving quantum optimal control on molecular systems. Our approach constrains pulse shapes to linear combinations of a fixed number of experimentally relevant pulse functions. Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Ruben D. Guerrero , Carlos A. Arango , Andres Reyes

Approximate computing is a computation domain which can be used to trade time and energy with quality and therefore is useful in embedded systems. Energy is the prime resource in battery-driven embedded systems, like robots. Approximate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Hrishav Bakul Barua

Reachability analysis, in general, is a fundamental method that supports formally-correct synthesis, robust model predictive control, set-based observers, fault detection, invariant computation, and conformance checking, to name but a few.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-17 Niklas Kochdumper , Bastian Schürmann , Matthias Althoff

Reachability analysis is important for studying optimal control problems and differential games, which are powerful theoretical tools for analyzing and modeling many practical problems in robotics, aircraft control, among other application…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-03-22 Mo Chen , Claire J. Tomlin

We establish an algorithm to learn feedback maps from data for a class of robust model predictive control (MPC) problems. The algorithm accounts for the approximation errors due to the learning directly at the synthesis stage, ensuring…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-16 Siddhartha Ganguly , Shubham Gupta , Debasish Chatterjee

A new fast algebraic method for obtaining an $\mathcal{H}^2$-approximation of a matrix from its entries is presented. The main idea behind the method is based on the nested representation and the maximum-volume principle to select…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-11-17 A. Yu Mikhalev , I. V. Oseledets

We present a data-driven algorithm for efficiently computing stochastic control policies for general joint chance constrained optimal control problems. Our approach leverages the theory of kernel distribution embeddings, which allows…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-10 Adam J. Thorpe , Thomas Lew , Meeko M. K. Oishi , Marco Pavone

Learning-based model predictive control has emerged as a powerful approach for handling complex dynamics in mechatronic systems, enabling data-driven performance improvements while respecting safety constraints. However, when computational…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-19 Mark Benazet , Francesco Ricca , Dario Bralla , Melanie N. Zeilinger , Andrea Carron

This study is aimed at answering the famous question of how the approximation errors at each iteration of Approximate Dynamic Programming (ADP) affect the quality of the final results considering the fact that errors at each iteration…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-05-18 Ali Heydari