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The problem of synthesizing stochastic explicit model predictive control policies is known to be quickly intractable even for systems of modest complexity when using classical control-theoretic methods. To address this challenge, we present…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Ján Drgoňa , Sayak Mukherjee , Aaron Tuor , Mahantesh Halappanavar , Draguna Vrabie

Deep neural network training involves both forward propagation (from features through logits to loss) and backward propagation (from loss through gradients to parameter updates). While perturbations along the forward chain, including…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Hua Li

PID control has been the dominant control strategy in the process industry due to its simplicity in design and effectiveness in controlling a wide range of processes. However, traditional methods on PID tuning often require extensive domain…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-14 Ayub I. Lakhani , Myisha A. Chowdhury , Qiugang Lu

This letter proposes a deep neural network (DNN)-based neuro-adaptive sliding mode control (SMC) strategy for leader-follower tracking in multi-agent systems with higher-order, heterogeneous, nonlinear, and unknown dynamics under external…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-30 Khushal Chaudhari , Krishanu Nath , Manas Kumar Bera

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has emerged as a powerful framework for sequential decision-making in dynamic environments, particularly when system parameters are unknown. This paper investigates RL-based control for entropy-regularized…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-02 Gabriel Diaz , Lucky Li , Wenhao Zhang

Motivated by recent advances of reinforcement learning and direct data-driven control, we propose policy gradient adaptive control (PGAC) for the linear quadratic regulator (LQR), which uses online closed-loop data to improve the control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-16 Feiran Zhao , Alessandro Chiuso , Florian Dörfler

This paper presents a deep learning based model predictive control algorithm for control affine nonlinear discrete time systems with matched and bounded state dependent uncertainties of unknown structure. Since the structure of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-28 Prabhat K. Mishra , Mateus V. Gasparino , Andres E. B. Velsasquez , Girish Chowdhary

Firstly, a new state feedback model reference adaptive control approach is developed for uncertain systems with gain scheduled reference models in a multi-input multi-output (MIMO) setting. Specifically, adaptive state feedback for output…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-03-18 Mehrdad Pakmehr , Tansel Yucelen

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) algorithms have been demonstrated to be effective in a wide range of challenging decision making and control tasks. However, these methods typically suffer from severe action oscillations in particular in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Chen Chen , Hongyao Tang , Jianye Hao , Wulong Liu , Zhaopeng Meng

In networked control systems, communication is a shared and therefore scarce resource. Event-triggered control (ETC) can achieve high performance control with a significantly reduced amount of samples compared to classical, periodic control…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Dominik Baumann , Friedrich Solowjow , Karl Henrik Johansson , Sebastian Trimpe

State-of-the-art model-based Reinforcement Learning (RL) approaches either use gradient-free, population-based methods for planning, learned policy networks, or a combination of policy networks and planning. Hybrid approaches that combine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Jonathan Spieler , Sven Behnke

This study presents a policy optimisation framework for structured nonlinear control of continuous-time (deterministic) dynamic systems. The proposed approach prescribes a structure for the controller based on relevant scientific knowledge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Namhoon Cho , Hyo-Sang Shin

We present a policy search method for learning complex feedback control policies that map from high-dimensional sensory inputs to motor torques, for manipulation tasks with discontinuous contact dynamics. We build on a prior technique…

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In this study, a distinct reconfigurable fault-tolerant flight control strategy is addressed for mitigating one of the persistent safety-critical issue, i.e. loss of control triggered by actuator faults. The attainable acceleration set…

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The use of unlicensed spectrum for cellular systems to mitigate spectrum scarcity has led to the development of intelligent adaptive approaches to spectrum access that improve upon traditional carrier sensing and listen-before-talk methods.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-13 Akash Doshi , Jeffrey G. Andrews

Distributed training and increasing the gradient update frequency are practical strategies to accelerate learning and improve performance, but both exacerbate a central challenge: \textit{policy lag}, which is the mismatch between the…

This paper presents a novel Sliding Mode Control (SMC) algorithm to handle mismatched uncertainties in systems via a novel Self-Learning Disturbance Observer (SLDO). A computationally efficient SLDO is developed within a framework of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-23 Erkan Kayacan

Sequence-to-sequence architectures built upon recurrent neural networks have become a standard choice for multi-step-ahead time series prediction. In these models, the decoder produces future values conditioned on contextual inputs,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Qi Sima , Xinze Zhang , Yukun Bao , Siyue Yang , Liang Shen

This work proposes an approach that integrates reinforcement learning and model predictive control (MPC) to solve finite-horizon optimal control problems in mixed-logical dynamical systems efficiently. Optimization-based control of such…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-15 Caio Fabio Oliveira da Silva , Azita Dabiri , Bart De Schutter

We propose a general model-free strategy for feedback control design of turbulent flows. This strategy called 'machine learning control' (MLC) is capable of exploiting nonlinear mechanisms in a systematic unsupervised manner. It relies on…