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Simulating the long-time evolution of Hamiltonian systems is limited by the small timesteps required for stable numerical integration. To overcome this constraint, we introduce a framework to learn Hamiltonian Flow Maps by predicting the…

Gaussian processes (GPs) are popular nonparametric statistical models for learning unknown functions and quantifying the spatiotemporal uncertainty in data. Recent works have extended GPs to model scalar and vector quantities distributed…

We propose a safety-guaranteed planning and control framework for unmanned surface vessels (USVs), using Gaussian processes (GPs) to learn uncertainties. The uncertainties encountered by USVs, including external disturbances and model…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-11 Shuhao Zhang , Yujia Yang , Seth Siriya , Ye Pu

We introduce Latent Gaussian Process Regression which is a latent variable extension allowing modelling of non-stationary multi-modal processes using GPs. The approach is built on extending the input space of a regression problem with a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-09-19 Erik Bodin , Neill D. F. Campbell , Carl Henrik Ek

Modeling complex rigid motion across large spatiotemporal spans remains an unresolved challenge in dynamic reconstruction. Existing paradigms are mainly confined to short-term, small-scale deformation and offer limited consideration for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Yijun Xu , Jingrui Zhang , Yuhan Chen , Dingwen Wang , Lei Yu , Chu He

Port-Hamiltonian systems (pHS) allow for a structure-preserving modeling of dynamical systems. Coupling pHS via linear relations between input and output defines an overall pHS, which is structure preserving. However, in multiphysics…

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Earth observation from satellite sensory data poses challenging problems, where machine learning is currently a key player. In recent years, Gaussian Process (GP) regression has excelled in biophysical parameter estimation tasks from…

Port-Hamiltonian (PH) systems provide a framework for modeling, analysis and control of complex dynamical systems, where the complexity might result from multi-physical couplings, non-trivial domains and diverse nonlinearities. A major…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2024-03-15 Philipp L. Kinon , Tobias Thoma , Peter Betsch , Paul Kotyczka

Gaussian processes (GPs) are commonplace in spatial statistics. Although many non-stationary models have been developed, there is arguably a lack of flexibility compared to equipping each location with its own parameters. However, the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-07-19 Leo L. Duan , Xia Wang , Rhonda D. Szczesniak

Nonstationary Gaussian processes (GPs) are essential for modeling complex, locally heterogeneous spatial data. A common modeling approach is the spatial deformation method that warps the domain to recover isotropy. However, this static…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Minghao Gu , Weizhi Lin , Qiang Huang

Accurate learning of system dynamics is becoming increasingly crucial for advanced control and decision-making in engineering. However, real-world systems often exhibit multiple channels and highly nonlinear transition dynamics, challenging…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-10-20 Tengjie Zheng , Jilan Mei , Di Wu , Lin Cheng , Shengping Gong

Gaussian Process (GP) regression is shown to be effective for learning unknown dynamics, enabling efficient and safety-aware control strategies across diverse applications. However, existing GP-based model predictive control (GP-MPC)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-13 Manish Prajapat , Johannes Köhler , Amon Lahr , Andreas Krause , Melanie N. Zeilinger

This paper considers a stochastic control framework, in which the residual model uncertainty of the dynamical system is learned using a Gaussian Process (GP). In the proposed formulation, the residual model uncertainty consists of a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-26 Marcel Menner , Karl Berntorp

We put forward a new Bayesian modeling strategy for spatiotemporal count data that enables efficient posterior sampling. Most previous models for such data decompose logarithms of the response Poisson rates into fixed effects and spatial…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-29 Yifan Cheng , Cheng Li

We address the problem of continual learning in multi-task Gaussian process (GP) models for handling sequential input-output observations. Our approach extends the existing prior-posterior recursion of online Bayesian inference, i.e.\ past…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-11-04 Pablo Moreno-Muñoz , Antonio Artés-Rodríguez , Mauricio A. Álvarez

The Gaussian process state-space model (GPSSM) has attracted extensive attention for modeling complex nonlinear dynamical systems. However, the existing GPSSM employs separate Gaussian processes (GPs) for each latent state dimension,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Zhidi Lin , Juan Maroñas , Ying Li , Feng Yin , Sergios Theodoridis

This paper presents a port-Hamiltonian (PH) modeling, control, and structure-preserving simulation framework for grid-forming static var generators (SVGs). A PH model is established that captures energy exchange among the inductor,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Jiaxin Qian , Feng Ji , Sixu Wu , Mingyang Liu , Yifa Tang

In this work, we propose a new passivity-based sliding mode control method for mechanical port-Hamiltonian systems. Passivity-based sliding mode control (PBSMC) is unification of sliding mode control and passivity-based control. It achieves…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-02 Naoki Sakata , Kenji Fujimoto , Ichiro Maruta

In this contribution, we introduce a general class of car-following models with an input-state-output port-Hamiltonian structure. We derive stability conditions and long-term behavior of the finite system with periodic boundaries and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-02-04 Julia Ackermann , Matthias Ehrhardt , Thomas Kruse , Antoine Tordeux

We propose a method for learning constraints represented as Gaussian processes (GPs) from locally-optimal demonstrations. Our approach uses the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) optimality conditions to determine where on the demonstrations the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Glen Chou , Hao Wang , Dmitry Berenson