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In a recent paper we have shown how to learn controllers for unknown linear systems using finite-sized noisy data by solving linear matrix inequalities. In this note we extend this approach to deal with unknown nonlinear polynomial systems…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-17 Meichen Guo , Claudio De Persis , Pietro Tesi

This article presents novel methods for synthesizing distributionally robust stabilizing neural controllers and certificates for control systems under model uncertainty. A key challenge in designing controllers with stability guarantees for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-06 Kehan Long , Jorge Cortes , Nikolay Atanasov

Positive invariant (PI) sets are essential for ensuring safety, i.e. constraint adherence, of dynamical systems. With the increasing availability of sampled data from complex (and often unmodeled) systems, it is advantageous to leverage…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-25 Amy K. Strong , Ali Kashani , Claus Danielson , Leila Bridgeman

We consider a class of nonlinear control synthesis problems where the underlying mathematical models are not explicitly known. We propose a data-driven approach to stabilize the systems when only sample trajectories of the dynamics are…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-30 Hyungjin Choi , Umesh Vaidya , Yongxin Chen

This work proposes a new a framework for determining robust periodic invariant sets and their associated control laws for constrained uncertain linear systems. Necessary and sufficient conditions for stabilizability by periodic controllers…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-11 Yehia Abdelsalam , Sankaranarayanan Subramanian , Sebastian Engell

We investigate the problem of verifying different properties of discrete time dynamical systems, namely, reachability, safety and reach-while-avoid. To achieve this, we adopt a data driven perspective and, using past system trajectories as…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-13 Luke Rickard , Alessandro Abate , Kostas Margellos

We consider discrete-time switching systems composed of a finite family of affine sub-dynamics. First, we recall existing results and present further analysis on the stability problem, the existence and characterization of compact…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-24 Matteo Della Rossa , Zheming Wang , Lucas N. Egidio , Raphaël M. Jungers

Stability certificates play a critical role in ensuring the safety and reliability of robotic systems. However, deriving these certificates for complex, unknown systems has traditionally required explicit knowledge of system dynamics, often…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Zhe Shen

We consider decision-making problems that are formulated as non-convex optimization programs where uncertainty enters the constraints through an additive term, independent of the decision variables, and robustness is imposed using a finite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Alexander J Gallo , Massimiliano Zoggia , Alessandro Falsone , Maria Prandini , Simone Garatti

The synthesis of robust invariant sets for nonlinear systems has traditionally been hindered by the inherent non convexity and a strict reliance on exact analytical models. This paper presents a purely data-driven framework to compute…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-01 Sahand Kiani , Constantino M. Lagoa

Many systems contain latent variables that make their dynamics partially unidentifiable or cause distribution shifts in the observed statistics between offline and online data. However, existing control techniques often assume access to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-24 Haoming Jing , Yorie Nakahira

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

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-26 Huayuan Huang , M. Kanat Camlibel , Raffaella Carloni , Henk J. van Waarde

Safety-critical control of piecewise affine (PWA) systems under bounded additive disturbances requires guarantees not for individual states but for entire state sets simultaneously: a single control action must steer every state in the set…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-02 Yanliang Huang , Peng Xie , Zhen Zhang , Wenyuan Wu , Zhuoqi Zeng , Amr Alanwar

Before 2025, no open-source system existed that could learn Lyapunov stability certificates directly from noisy, real-world flight data. This work addresses that gap by proposing a data-driven approach that learns Lyapunov functions from…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-25 Zhe Shen

In this work, we propose a data-driven divide and conquer strategy for the stability analysis of interconnected homogeneous nonlinear networks of degree one with unknown models and a fully unknown topology. The proposed scheme leverages…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-24 Abolfazl Lavaei , David Angeli

We present a true-dynamics-agnostic, statistically rigorous framework for establishing exponential stability and safety guarantees of closed-loop, data-driven nonlinear control. Central to our approach is the novel concept of conformal…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-12 Ting-Wei Hsu , Hiroyasu Tsukamoto

This paper develops a data-driven safe control framework for nonlinear discrete-time systems with parametric uncertainty and additive disturbances. The proposed approach constructs a data-consistent closed-loop representation that enables…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-02 Amir Modares , Bahare Kiumarsi , Hamidreza Modares

Finding Lyapunov functions to certify the stability of control systems has been an important topic for verifying safety-critical systems. Most existing methods on finding Lyapunov functions require access to the dynamics of the system.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-16 Chiao Hsieh , Masaki Waga , Kohei Suenaga

Infinite networks are complex interconnected systems comprising a countably infinite number of subsystems, for which no fixed upper bound on the number of participating subsystems is specified a priori since it may vary over time as agents…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Mahdieh Zaker , Amy Nejati , Abolfazl Lavaei
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