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Purpose: This study aims to address the challenges of controlling unstable and nonlinear systems by proposing an adaptive PID controller based on predictive reinforcement learning (PRL-PID), where the PRL-PID combines the advantages of both…
Despite Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (Neural ODEs) exhibiting intrinsic robustness, existing methods often impose Lyapunov stability for formal guarantees. However, these methods still face a fundamental accuracy-robustness…
Stability analysis of switched systems, characterized by multiple operational modes and switching signals, is challenging due to their nonlinear dynamics. While frameworks such as multiple Lyapunov functions (MLF) provide a foundation for…
Collocated adaptive control of underactuated systems is still a main concern for the control community, all the more so because the collocated dynamics is no longer linear with respect to the constant base parameters. This work extends and…
This paper studies distributed adaptive estimation over sensor networks with partially unknown source dynamics. We present parallel continuous-time and discrete-time designs in which each node runs a local adaptive observer and exchanges…
Learning a stable Linear Dynamical System (LDS) from data involves creating models that both minimize reconstruction error and enforce stability of the learned representation. We propose a novel algorithm for learning stable LDSs. Using a…
An interlaced method to learn and control nonlinear system dynamics from a set of demonstrations is proposed, under a constrained optimization framework for the unsupervised learning process. The nonlinear system is modelled as a mixture of…
This work presents a solution to the adaptive tracking control of Euler Lagrange systems with guaranteed tracking and parameter estimation error convergence. Specifically a concurrent learning based update rule fused by the filtered version…
Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) are indispensable for marine exploration; yet, their control is hindered by nonlinear hydrodynamics, time-varying disturbances, and localization uncertainty. Traditional controllers provide only limited…
This paper introduces an adaptive-neuro geometric control for a centralized multi-quadrotor cooperative transportation system, which enhances both adaptivity and disturbance rejection. Our strategy is to coactively tune the model parameters…
The paper describes a novel method for studying the stability of nonautonomous dynamical systems. This method based on the flow and divergence of the vector field with coupling to the method of Lyapunov functions. The necessary and…
Feed-forward neural networks (FNNs) work as standard building blocks in applying artificial intelligence (AI) to the physical world. They allow learning the dynamics of unknown physical systems (e.g., biological and chemical) {to predict…
This paper develops a neural network based control framework that ensures system safety and input-to-state stability (ISS) for general nonlinear switched systems with unknown dynamics. Leveraging the concept of dwell time, we derive…
This paper develops an adaptive tracking controller for a class of nonlinear systems with parametric uncertainty subject to state constraints. The system is characterized by a strict-feedback structure with unknown parameters entering both…
Controlling high-dimensional stochastic systems, critical in robotics, autonomous vehicles, and hyperchaotic systems, faces the curse of dimensionality, lacks temporal abstraction, and often fails to ensure stochastic stability. To overcome…
Dynamic graphs are rich data structures that are used to model complex relationships between entities over time. In particular, anomaly detection in temporal graphs is crucial for many real world applications such as intrusion…
In this paper, we develop and analyze an integral fixed-time sliding mode control method for a scenario in which the system model is only partially known, utilizing Gaussian processes. We present two theorems on fixed-time convergence. The…
The lack of stability guarantee restricts the practical use of learning-based methods in core control problems in robotics. We develop new methods for learning neural control policies and neural Lyapunov critic functions in the model-free…
Learning-based control of linear systems received a lot of attentions recently. In popular settings, the true dynamical models are unknown to the decision-maker and need to be interactively learned by applying control inputs to the systems.…
Incremental input-to-state stability (delta-ISS) offers a robust framework to ensure that small input variations result in proportionally minor deviations in the state of a nonlinear system. This property is essential in practical…