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Recent strides in nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) underscore a dependence on numerical advancements to efficiently and accurately solve large-scale problems. Given the substantial number of variables characterizing typical…

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In this paper, we investigate a continuous-time linear quadratic control problem for systems with unknown matrices, where only input-output data are available. We propose an output-feedback learning framework based on a canonical nonminimal…

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This paper presents a data-driven nonlinear safe control design approach for discrete-time systems under parametric uncertainties and additive disturbances. We first characterize a new control structure from which a data-based…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-13 Amir Modares , Bosen Lian , Hamidreza Modares

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…

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This paper is concerned with linear-quadratic-Gaussian (LQG) control for a field-mediated feedback connection of a plant and a coherent (measurement-free) controller. Both the plant and the controller are multimode open quantum harmonic…

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The theory of covariance control and covariance steering (CS) deals with controlling the dispersion of trajectories of a dynamical system, under the implicit assumption that accurate prior knowledge of the system being controlled is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-21 Joshua Pilipovsky , Panagiotis Tsiotras

This paper proposes a novel informativity-based data-driven synthesis method for a sub-optimal linear quadratic (LQ) regulator for linear input-delay systems from noisy input-state data. Exploiting the augmented state structure of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Kohei Ayaka , Takumi Namba , Kiyotsugu Takaba

We study online linear-quadratic regulation (LQR) with unknown dynamics under communication rate constraints. Classical networked control quantizes the plant state at every time step, requiring $O(T)$ total bits while injecting persistent…

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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

Data-Driven Predictive Control (DDPC) has been recently proposed as an effective alternative to traditional Model Predictive Control (MPC), in that the same constrained optimization problem can be addressed without the need to explicitly…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-14 Valentina Breschi , Marco Fabris , Simone Formentin , Alessandro Chiuso

The increasing ease of obtaining and processing data together with the growth in system complexity has sparked the interest in moving from conventional model-based control design towards data-driven concepts. Since in many engineering…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-29 Juan G. Rueda-Escobedo , Emilia Fridman , Johannes Schiffer

The design of controllers from data for nonlinear systems is a challenging problem. In a recent paper, De Persis, Rotulo and Tesi, "Learning controllers from data via approximate nonlinearity cancellation," IEEE Transactions on Automatic…

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This paper develops a method to learn optimal controls from data for bilinear systems without a priori knowledge of the system dynamics. Given an unknown bilinear system, we first characterize when the available data is suitable to solve…

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This paper studies the stochastic optimal control problem for systems with unknown dynamics. First, an open-loop deterministic trajectory optimization problem is solved without knowing the explicit form of the dynamical system. Next, a…

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Model predictive control (MPC) has played a more crucial role in various robotic control tasks, but its high computational requirements are concerning, especially for nonlinear dynamical models. This paper presents a $\textbf{la}$tent…

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We study the problem of control policy design for decentralized state-feedback linear quadratic control with a partially nested information structure, when the system model is unknown. We propose a model-based learning solution, which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-30 Lintao Ye , Hao Zhu , Vijay Gupta

This paper explores the role of regularization in data-driven predictive control (DDPC) through the lens of convex relaxation. Using a bi-level optimization framework, we model system identification as an inner problem and predictive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Xu Shang , Yang Zheng

Developments in cooperative trajectory planning of connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs) have gathered considerable momentum and research attention. Generally, such problems present strong non-linearity and non-convexity, rendering great…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Zhenmin Huang , Shaojie Shen , Jun Ma

We investigate the benefits of combining regular and impulsive inputs for the control of sampled-data linear time-invariant systems. We first observe that adding an impulsive term to a regular, zero-order-hold controller may help enlarging…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Jamal Daafouz , Jérôme Lohéac , Romain Postoyan

We introduce a method to deal with the data-driven control design of nonlinear systems. We derive conditions to design controllers via (approximate) nonlinearity cancellation. These conditions take the compact form of data-dependent…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-26 Claudio De Persis , Monica Rotulo , Pietro Tesi