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Recent works have approached the data-driven design of dynamic output-feedback controllers for discrete-time LTI systems by constructing non-minimal state vectors composed of past inputs and outputs. Depending on the system's complexity…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-18 Mohammad Alsalti , Victor G. Lopez , Matthias A. Müller

Effective traffic control is essential for mitigating congestion in transportation networks. Conventional traffic management strategies, including route guidance and ramp metering, often rely on state feedback controllers, which are used…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Giray Önür , Azita Dabiri , Bart De Schutter

Achieving optimal steady-state performance in real-time is an increasingly necessary requirement of many critical infrastructure systems. In pursuit of this goal, this paper builds a systematic design framework of feedback controllers for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-10-30 Zachary E. Nelson , Enrique Mallada

This paper develops a controller synthesis algorithm for distributed LQG control problems under output feedback. We consider a system consisting of three interconnected linear subsystems with a delayed information sharing structure. While…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Hamid Reza Feyzmahdavian , Assad Alam , Ather Gattami

This paper develops and analyzes feedback-based online optimization methods to regulate the output of a linear time-invariant (LTI) dynamical system to the optimal solution of a time-varying convex optimization problem. The design of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-31 Marcello Colombino , Emiliano Dall'Anese , Andrey Bernstein

This paper studies adaptive algorithms for simultaneous regulation (i.e., control) and estimation (i.e., learning) of Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) linear dynamical systems. It proposes practical, easy to implement control policies…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-05 Mohamad Kazem Shirani Faradonbeh , Ambuj Tewari , George Michailidis

This paper studies the data-driven control of unknown linear-threshold network dynamics to stabilize the state to a reference value. We consider two types of controllers: (i) a state feedback controller with feed-forward reference input and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-03 Xuan Wang , Duy Duong-Tran , Jorge Cortés

In this paper, we present a Q-learning algorithm to solve the optimal output regulation problem for discrete-time LTI systems. This off-policy algorithm only relies on using persistently exciting input-output data, measured offline. No…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-21 Mohammad Alsalti , Victor G. Lopez , Matthias A. Müller

A state space based design method is given to find strongly stabilizing controllers for multiple-input-multiple-output plants (MIMO). A sufficient condition is derived for the existence of suboptimal stable H-infinity controller in terms of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-13 Suat Gumussoy , Hitay Ozbay

This paper addresses the problem of robust and optimal control for the class of nonlinear quadratic systems subject to norm-bounded parametric uncertainties and disturbances, and in presence of some amplitude constraints on the control…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-01-12 Merola Alessio , Cosentino Carlo , Colacino Domenico , Amato Francesco

The purpose of this paper is to study the mixed linear quadratic Gaussian (LQG) and $H_\infty$ optimal control problem for linear quantum stochastic systems, where the controller itself is also a quantum system, often referred to as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-15 Lei Cui , Zhiyuan Dong , Guofeng Zhang , Heung Wing Joseph Lee

We address H-infinity structured static state feedback and give a simple form for an optimal control law applicable to linear time invariant systems with symmetric and Hurwitz state matrix. More specifically, the control law as well as the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-10-02 Carolina Lidström , Anders Rantzer

Attention-based neural networks such as transformers have revolutionized various fields such as natural language processing, genomics, and vision. Here, we demonstrate the use of transformers for quantum feedback control through both a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-26 Pranav Vaidhyanathan , Florian Marquardt , Mark T. Mitchison , Natalia Ares

We study state-feedback design for continuous-time LTI systems with a control input and an external input-output pair. Our objective is to determine feedback gains that render the closed-loop system (strictly) passive with respect to the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Armin Gießler , Pol Jané-Soneira , Sören Hohmann

This paper investigates the problem of regulating in real time a linear dynamical system to the solution trajectory of a time-varying constrained convex optimization problem. The proposed feedback controller is based on an adaptation of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-13 Gianluca Bianchin , Jorge Cortes , Jorge I. Poveda , Emiliano Dall'Anese

We present a novel framework for transferring the knowledge from one system (source) to design a stabilizing controller for a second system (target). Our motivation stems from the hypothesis that abundant data can be collected from the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-08 Lidong Li , Claudio De Persis , Pietro Tesi , Nima Monshizadeh

We study the problem of learning to stabilize (LTS) a linear time-invariant (LTI) system. Policy gradient (PG) methods for control assume access to an initial stabilizing policy. However, designing such a policy for an unknown system is one…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Leonardo F. Toso , Lintao Ye , James Anderson

Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) design is one of the most classical optimal control problems, whose well-known solution is an input sequence expressed as a state-feedback. In this work, finite-horizon and discrete-time LQR is solved under…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-01-17 Anna Scampicchio , Aleksandr Aravkin , Gianluigi Pillonetto

This paper proposes a robust model reference adaptive controller (MRAC) for uncertain multi-input multi-output (MIMO) linear time-invariant (LTI) plants with user-defined constraints on the plant states, input amplitude, and input rate. The…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-29 Poulomee Ghosh , Shubhendu Bhasin

In this paper, we provide a system theoretic treatment of a new class of multilinear time-invariant (MLTI) systems in which the states, inputs and outputs are tensors, and the system evolution is governed by multilinear operators. The MLTI…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-02 Can Chen , Amit Surana , Anthony Bloch , Indika Rajapakse