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This paper presents a method that learns a regionally stable recurrent neural network model from a set of input-output data generated by an unknown dynamical system. Relying on generalized sector conditions on the deadzone activation…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Daniel Frank , Fahim Shakib , Steffen Staab

Invariance and stability are essential notions in dynamical systems study, and thus it is of great interest to learn a dynamics model with a stable invariant set. However, existing methods can only handle the stability of an equilibrium. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Naoya Takeishi , Yoshinobu Kawahara

Robust stabilization conditions for uncertain switched affine systems subject to a unitary input delay are presented. They are obtained through the Lyapunov framework and a min-switching state-feedback predictive control law. The result…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-20 Gerson Portilla , Carolina Albea , Alexandre Seuret

As autonomous systems become more complex and integral in our society, the need to accurately model and safely control these systems has increased significantly. In the past decade, there has been tremendous success in using deep learning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Hao Wang , Javier Borquez , Somil Bansal

Certifying safety in dynamical systems is crucial, but barrier certificates - widely used to verify that system trajectories remain within a safe region - typically require explicit system models. When dynamics are unknown, data-driven…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-16 Robert Lefringhausen , Sami Leon Noel Aziz Hanna , Elias August , Sandra Hirche

This paper deals with the certification problem for robust quadratic stability, robust state convergence, and robust quadratic performance of linear systems that exhibit bounded rates of variation in their parameters. We consider both…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Pepijn B. Cox , Siep Weiland , Roland Tóth

The notion of the relaxed Robust Control Lyapunov Function (relaxed RCLF) is introduced and is exploited for the design of robust feedback stabilizers for nonlinear systems. Particularly, it is shown for systems with input constraints that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2008-10-07 Iasson Karafyllis , Costas Kravaris , Nicolas Kalogerakis

Autonomous robots used in infrastructure inspection, space exploration and other critical missions operate in highly dynamic environments. As such, they must continually verify their ability to complete the tasks associated with these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Xingyu Zhao , Simos Gerasimou , Radu Calinescu , Calum Imrie , Valentin Robu , David Flynn

Certifying the robustness of a graph-based machine learning model poses a critical challenge for safety. Current robustness certificates for graph classifiers guarantee output invariance with respect to the total number of node pair flips…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Pierre Osselin , Henry Kenlay , Xiaowen Dong

In this paper, we solve the problem of finding a certified control policy that drives a robot from any given initial state and under any bounded disturbance to the desired reference trajectory, with guarantees on the convergence or bounds…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Dawei Sun , Susmit Jha , Chuchu Fan

Stabilizing controller design and region of attraction (RoA) estimation are essential in nonlinear control. Moreover, it is challenging to implement a control Lyapunov function (CLF) in practice when only partial knowledge of the system is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-20 Shiqing Wei , Prashanth Krishnamurthy , Farshad Khorrami

In this paper, we address robust static anti-windup compensator design and performance analysis for saturated linear closed loops in the presence of nonlinear probabilistic parameter uncertainties via randomized techniques. The proposed…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Simone Formentin , Fabrizio Dabbene , Roberto Tempo , Luca Zaccarian , Sergio M. Savaresi

In the article$^a$, the authors introduced a time-varying Lyapunov function for the stability analysis of nonlinear systems whose motion is governed by standard Newton-Euler equations. The authors established asymptotic stability with the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-13 Lekan Molu

Motivated by bridging the simulation to reality gap in the context of safety-critical systems, we consider learning adversarially robust stability certificates for unknown nonlinear dynamical systems. In line with approaches from robust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Thomas T. C. K. Zhang , Stephen Tu , Nicholas M. Boffi , Jean-Jacques E. Slotine , Nikolai Matni

This paper establishes the equivalence between robust safety and the existence of a barrier function certificate for differential inclusions. More precisely, for a robustly-safe differential inclusion, a barrier function is constructed as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-08-05 Mohamed Maghenem , Masoumeh Ghanbarpour

The property that every control system should posses is stability, which translates into safety in real-life applications. A central tool in systems theory for synthesizing control laws that achieve stability are control Lyapunov functions…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-04-01 M. Lazar

In this article, we present a new scheme that approximates unknown sensorimotor models of robots by using feedback signals only. The formulation of the uncalibrated sensor-based regulation problem is first formulated, then, we develop a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-07 David Navarro-Alarcon , Jiaming Qi , Jihong Zhu , Andrea Cherubini

We consider the problem of verifying safety for continuous-time dynamical systems. Developing upon recent advancements in data-driven verification, we use only a finite number of sampled trajectories to learn a barrier certificate, namely a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-11 Luke Rickard , Alessandro Abate , Kostas Margellos

Reinforcement learning (RL) exhibits impressive performance when managing complicated control tasks for robots. However, its wide application to physical robots is limited by the absence of strong safety guarantees. To overcome this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Desong Du , Shaohang Han , Naiming Qi , Haitham Bou Ammar , Jun Wang , Wei Pan

Lyapunov's theorem provides a fundamental characterization of the stability of dynamical systems. This paper presents a categorical framework for Lyapunov theory, generalizing stability analysis with Lyapunov functions categorically. Core…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-08-01 Aaron D. Ames , Joe Moeller , Paulo Tabuada