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Although deep neural network (DNN)-based controllers are popularly used to control uncertain nonlinear dynamic systems, most results use DNNs that are pretrained offline and the corresponding controller is implemented post-training. Recent…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-25 Omkar Sudhir Patil , Emily J. Griffis , Wanjiku A. Makumi , Warren E. Dixon

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

This paper presents a novel Lyapunov-based Adaptive Transformer (LyAT) controller for stochastic nonlinear systems. While transformers have shown promise in various control applications due to sequential modeling through self-attention…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-19 Saiedeh Akbari , Xuehui Shen , Wenqian Xue , Jordan C. Insinger , Warren E. Dixon

We present a new method for learning control law that stabilizes an unknown nonlinear dynamical system at an equilibrium point. We formulate a system identification task in a self-supervised learning setting that jointly learns a controller…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-17 Priyabrata Saha , Magnus Egerstedt , Saibal Mukhopadhyay

While ensuring stability for linear systems is well understood, it remains a major challenge for nonlinear systems. A general approach in such cases is to compute a combination of a Lyapunov function and an associated control policy.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Junlin Wu , Andrew Clark , Yiannis Kantaros , Yevgeniy Vorobeychik

We present a learning-based predictive control methodology using the differentiable programming framework with probabilistic Lyapunov-based stability guarantees. The neural Lyapunov differentiable predictive control (NLDPC) learns the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-27 Sayak Mukherjee , Ján Drgoňa , Aaron Tuor , Mahantesh Halappanavar , Draguna Vrabie

This paper reports a robust scheme for topology identification and control of networks running on linear dynamics. In the proposed method, the unknown network is enforced to asymptotically follow a reference dynamics using the combination…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-06-18 Mahyar Fazlyab , Victor M. Preciado

Recent advances in learning-based control leverage deep function approximators, such as neural networks, to model the evolution of controlled dynamical systems over time. However, the problem of learning a dynamics model and a stabilizing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-05 Youngjae Min , Spencer M. Richards , Navid Azizan

We develop a finite-dimensional sensitivity framework for studying stability in learning systems whose states include representations, parameters, and update variables. The central object is the \emph{Learning Stability Profile}, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Ronald Katende

Learning algorithms have shown considerable prowess in simulation by allowing robots to adapt to uncertain environments and improve their performance. However, such algorithms are rarely used in practice on safety-critical systems, since…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Spencer M. Richards , Felix Berkenkamp , Andreas Krause

Learned models and policies can generalize effectively when evaluated within the distribution of the training data, but can produce unpredictable and erroneous outputs on out-of-distribution inputs. In order to avoid distribution shift when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Katie Kang , Paula Gradu , Jason Choi , Michael Janner , Claire Tomlin , Sergey Levine

Deep networks are commonly used to model dynamical systems, predicting how the state of a system will evolve over time (either autonomously or in response to control inputs). Despite the predictive power of these systems, it has been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Gaurav Manek , J. Zico Kolter

When neural networks are used to model dynamics, properties such as stability of the dynamics are generally not guaranteed. In contrast, there is a recent method for learning the dynamics of autonomous systems that guarantees global…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Kenji Kashima , Ryota Yoshiuchi , Yu Kawano

In this paper, we focus on the problem about direct way to design a stable controller for nonlinear system. A framework of learning controller with Lyapunov-based constraint is proposed, which is intended to transform designing and analyis…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Me Le , Chi Yanxun , Li Zhiwei , Xu Dongfu , Zhang Yulong

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are increasingly used in control applications due to their powerful function approximation capabilities. However, many existing formulations focus primarily on tracking error convergence, often neglecting the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-19 Rebecca G. Hart , Omkar Sudhir Patil , Zachary I. Bell , Warren E. Dixon

Neural-based, data-driven analysis and control of dynamical systems have been recently investigated and have shown great promise, e.g. for safety verification or stability analysis. Indeed, not only do neural networks allow for an entirely…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-14 Virginie Debauche , Alec Edwards , Raphael M. Jungers , Alessandro Abate

This paper addresses the problem of Neural Network (NN) based adaptive stability certification in a dynamical system. The state-of-the-art methods, such as Neural Lyapunov Functions (NLFs), use NN-based formulations to assess the stability…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-27 Amit Jena , Dileep Kalathil , Le Xie

In this paper, we consider the data-driven discovery of stable dynamical models with a single equilibrium. The proposed approach uses a basis-function parameterization of the differential equations and the associated Lyapunov function. This…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-10 Zhe Li , Ilias Mitrai

We propose a method for training ordinary differential equations by using a control-theoretic Lyapunov condition for stability. Our approach, called LyaNet, is based on a novel Lyapunov loss formulation that encourages the inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Ivan Dario Jimenez Rodriguez , Aaron D. Ames , Yisong Yue

This paper addresses to Sliding Mode Learning Control (SMLC) of uncertain nonlinear systems with Lyapunov stability analysis. In the control scheme, a conventional control term is used to provide the system stability in compact space while…

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