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We develop a data-driven framework for learning and correcting non-autonomous vehicle dynamics. Physics-based vehicle models are often simplified for tractability and therefore exhibit inherent model-form uncertainty, motivating the need…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Nguyen Ly , Caroline Tatsuoka , Jai Nagaraj , Jacob Levy , Fernando Palafox , David Fridovich-Keil , Hannah Lu

Endowing nonlinear systems with safe behavior is increasingly important in modern control. This task is particularly challenging for real-life control systems that must operate safely in dynamically changing environments. This paper…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-06 Tamas G. Molnar , Adam K. Kiss , Aaron D. Ames , Gábor Orosz

A hybrid (i.e., physics-guided data-driven) feedforward tracking controller is proposed for systems with unmodeled linear or nonlinear dynamics. The controller is based on the filtered basis function (FBF) approach, hence it is called a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-27 Cheng-Hao Chou , Molong Duan , Chinedum E. Okwudire

In this paper, we propose linear operator theoretic framework involving Koopman operator for the data-driven identification of power system dynamics. We explicitly account for noise in the time series measurement data and propose robust…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-19 Pranav Sharma , Bowen Huang , Umesh Vaidya , Venkatramana Ajjarapu

We present an approach to compute stabilizing controllers for continuous-time linear time-invariant systems directly from an input-output trajectory affected by process and measurement noise. The proposed output-feedback design combines (i)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-17 Alessandro Bosso , Marco Borghesi , Andrea Iannelli , Bowen Yi , Giuseppe Notarstefano

In this work, we investigate the data-driven safe control synthesis problem for unknown dynamic systems. We first formulate the safety synthesis problem as a robust convex program (RCP) based on notion of control barrier function. To…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-04 Yu Chen , Chao Shang , Xiaolin Huang , Xiang Yin

Time delays in feedback control loops can cause controllers to respond too late, and with excessively large corrective actions, leading to unsafe behavior (violation of state constraints) and controller infeasibility (violation of input…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-26 Adam K. Kiss , Ersin Das , Tamas G. Molnar , Aaron D. Ames

Control Barrier Functions (CBFs) have been demonstrated to be a powerful tool for safety-critical controller design for nonlinear systems. Existing design paradigms do not address the gap between theory (controller design with continuous…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-15 Andrew J. Taylor , Victor D. Dorobantu , Ryan K. Cosner , Yisong Yue , Aaron D. Ames

This paper develops a framework for synthesizing safety controllers for discrete-time stochastic linear control systems (dt-SLS) operating under communication imperfections. The control unit is remote and communicates with the sensor and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-10 Omid Akbarzadeh , Mohammad H. Mamduhi , Abolfazl Lavaei

With the advancement of affordable self-driving vehicles using complicated nonlinear optimization but limited computation resources, computation time becomes a matter of concern. Other factors such as actuator dynamics and actuator command…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Dvij Kalaria , Qin Lin , John M. Dolan

A robust controller is developed for uncertain, second-order nonlinear systems subject to simultaneous unknown, time-varying state delays and known, time-varying input delays in addition to additive, sufficiently smooth disturbances. An…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-07-25 Rushikesh Kamalapurkar , Nicholas Fischer , Serhat Obuz , Warren E. Dixon

Recent literature has shown how linear time-invariant (LTI) systems can be represented by trajectories features, that is relying on a single input-output (IO) data dictionary to span all possible system trajectories, as long as the input is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-18 Marcelo Menezes Morato , Julio Elias Normey-Rico , Olivier Sename

Learning-based optimal control algorithms control unknown systems using past trajectory data and a learned model of the system dynamics. These controllers use either a linear approximation of the learned dynamics, trading performance for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-21 Adam W. Hall , Melissa Greeff , Angela P. Schoellig

Fault detection and identification (FDI) is critical for maintaining the safety and reliability of systems subject to actuator and sensor faults. In this paper, the problem of FDI for nonlinear control-affine systems under simultaneous…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-30 Joshua D. Ibrahim , Mahdi Taheri , Soon-Jo Chung , Fred Y. Hadaegh

This paper deals with designing a robust fixed-order dynamic output feedback controller for uncertain fractional order linear time invariant (FO-LTI) systems by means of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). Our purpose is to design a low…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-02-22 Pouya Badri , Mahdi Sojoodi

Nonlinear optimal control is vital for numerous applications but remains challenging for unknown systems due to the difficulties in accurately modelling dynamics and handling computational demands, particularly in high-dimensional settings.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-03 Zhexuan Zeng , Ruikun Zhou , Yiming Meng , Jun Liu

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 addresses the stability analysis and state estimation of generalized Persidskii systems subject to time-varying delays and external disturbances. The generalized Persidskii class, which couples linear dynamics with sector-bounded…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-04 Syed Pouladi

This survey presents recent research on determining control-theoretic properties and designing controllers with rigorous guarantees using semidefinite programming and for nonlinear systems for which no mathematical models but measured…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-06 Tim Martin , Thomas B. Schön , Frank Allgöwer

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…

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