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This paper analyzes internal stability of a discrete-time feedback system with a ReLU nonlinearity. This feedback system is motivated by recurrent neural networks. We first review existing static quadratic constraints (QCs) for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Sahel Vahedi Noori , Bin Hu , Geir Dullerud , Peter Seiler

This paper is concerned with the stability analysis of the recurrent neural networks (RNNs) by means of the integral quadratic constraint (IQC) framework. The rectified linear unit (ReLU) is typically employed as the activation function of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-10 Yoshio Ebihara , Hayato Waki , Victor Magron , Ngoc Hoang Anh Mai , Dimitri Peaucelle , Sophie Tarbouriech

This paper derives a complete set of quadratic constraints (QCs) for the repeated ReLU. The complete set of QCs is described by a collection of matrix copositivity conditions. We also show that only two functions satisfy all QCs in our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Sahel Vahedi Noori , Bin Hu , Geir Dullerud , Peter Seiler

This paper presents sufficient conditions for the stability and $\ell_2$-gain performance of recurrent neural networks (RNNs) with ReLU activation functions. These conditions are derived by combining Lyapunov/dissipativity theory with…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-15 Sahel Vahedi Noori , Bin Hu , Geir Dullerud , Peter Seiler

This article presents a novel framework for the robust controller synthesis problem in discrete-time systems using dynamic Integral Quadratic Constraints (IQCs). We present an algorithm to minimize closed-loop performance measures such as…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-31 Lukas Schwenkel , Johannes Köhler , Matthias A. Müller , Carsten W. Scherer , Frank Allgöwer

This paper develops a robust control synthesis method for uncertain linear systems with input saturation in the framework of integral quadratic constraints (IQCs). The system is reformulated as a linear fractional representation (LFR) that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-12 Xu Zhang , Fen Wu

The theory of integral quadratic constraints (IQCs) allows verification of stability and gain-bound properties of systems containing nonlinear or uncertain elements. Gain bounds often imply exponential stability, but it can be challenging…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Ross Boczar , Laurent Lessard , Andrew Packard , Benjamin Recht

This work provides a framework to compute an upper bound on the robust peak-to-peak gain of discrete-time uncertain linear systems using integral quadratic constraints (IQCs). Such bounds are of particular interest in the computation of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-18 Lukas Schwenkel , Johannes Köhler , Matthias A. Müller , Frank Allgöwer

This paper proposes a framework to assess the stability of an ordinary differential equation which is coupled to a 1D-partial differential equation (PDE). The stability theorem is based on a new result on Integral Quadratic Constraints…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-03 Matthieu Barreau , Carsten W. Scherer , Frederic Gouaisbaut , Alexandre Seuret

We develop a $\mu$-analysis and synthesis framework for infinite-dimensional systems that leverages the Integral Quadratic Constraints (IQCs) to compute the structured singular value's upper bound. The methodology formulates robust…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-16 Thijs Lenssen , Aleksandr Talitckii , Matthew Peet , Amritam Das

Conditions for input-output stability of barrier-based model predictive control of linear systems with linear and convex nonlinear (hard or soft) constraints are established through the construction of integral quadratic constraints (IQCs).…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Panagiotis Petsagkourakis , William P. Heath , Joaquin Carrasco , Constantinos Theodoropoulos

This manuscript develops a new framework to analyze and design iterative optimization algorithms built on the notion of Integral Quadratic Constraints (IQC) from robust control theory. IQCs provide sufficient conditions for the stability of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-27 Laurent Lessard , Benjamin Recht , Andrew Packard

Modern control theory provides us with a spectrum of methods for studying the interconnection of dynamic systems using input-output properties of the interconnected subsystems. Perhaps the most advanced framework for such input-output…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-04 Aleksandr Talitckii , Peter Seiler , Matthew M. Peet

The goal of this paper is to assess the robustness of an uncertain linear time-varying (LTV) system on a finite time horizon. The uncertain system is modeled as a connection of a known LTV system and a perturbation. The input/output…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Peter Seiler , Robert Moore , Chris Meissen , Murat Arcak , Andrew Packard

We present a new approach to verifying contraction and $L_2$-gain of uncertain nonlinear systems, extending the well-known method of integral quadratic constraints. The uncertain system consists of a feedback interconnection of a nonlinear…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-03-22 Ruigang Wang , Ian R. Manchester

This paper presents a framework for abstracting uncertain or non-polynomial components of dynamical systems using polynomial constraints. This enables the application of polynomial-based analysis tools, such as sum-of-squares programming,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-02 Neelay Junnarkar , Peter Seiler , Murat Arcak

In this work, we propose an output-feedback tube-based model predictive control (MPC) scheme for linear systems under dynamic uncertainties that are described via integral quadratic constraints (IQC). By leveraging IQCs, a large class of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-26 Lukas Schwenkel , Johannes Köhler , Matthias A. Müller , Frank Allgöwer

Scaled relative graphs (SRGs) enable graphical analysis and design of nonlinear systems. In this paper, we present a systematic approach for computing both soft and hard SRGs of nonlinear systems using dynamic integral quadratic constraints…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Timo de Groot , Tom Oomen , W. P. M. H. Heemels , Sebastiaan van den Eijnden

A method is proposed to compute robust inner-approximations to the backward reachable set for uncertain nonlinear systems. It also produces a robust control law that drives trajectories starting in these sets to the target set. The method…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-13 He Yin , Peter Seiler , Murat Arcak

Iterative Learning Control (ILC) schemes can guarantee properties such as asymptotic stability and monotonic error convergence, but do not, in general, ensure adherence to output constraints. The topic of this paper is the design of a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-12 Michael Meindl , Fabio Molinari , Jörg Raisch , Thomas Seel
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