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Control barrier certificates have proven effective in formally guaranteeing the safety of the control systems. However, designing a control barrier certificate is a time-consuming and computationally expensive endeavor that requires expert…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-28 Alireza Nadali , Ashutosh Trivedi , Majid Zamani

This paper presents a novel Lyapunov-based Adaptive Transformer (LyAT) controller for stochastic nonlinear systems. While transformers have shown promise in various control applications due to sequential modeling through self-attention…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-19 Saiedeh Akbari , Xuehui Shen , Wenqian Xue , Jordan C. Insinger , Warren E. Dixon

This paper addresses the stability problem for discrete-time switched systems under autonomous switching. Each mode of the switched system is modeled as a Linear Parameter Varying (LPV) system, the time-varying parameters can vary…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-13 Márcio J. Lacerda , Cristiano M. Agulhari

A controller synthesis method for state- and input-constrained nonlinear systems is presented that seeks continuous piecewise affine (CPA) Lyapunov-like functions and controllers simultaneously. Non-convex optimization problems are…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-08 Reza Lavaei , Leila Bridgeman

Emerging applications in robotics and autonomous systems, such as autonomous driving and robotic surgery, often involve critical safety constraints that must be satisfied even when information about system models is limited. In this regard,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Subin Huh , Insoon Yang

In this paper, we focus on the problem about direct way to design a stable controller for nonlinear system. A framework of learning controller with Lyapunov-based constraint is proposed, which is intended to transform designing and analyis…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Me Le , Chi Yanxun , Li Zhiwei , Xu Dongfu , Zhang Yulong

Reinforcement learning (RL) exhibits impressive performance when managing complicated control tasks for robots. However, its wide application to physical robots is limited by the absence of strong safety guarantees. To overcome this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Desong Du , Shaohang Han , Naiming Qi , Haitham Bou Ammar , Jun Wang , Wei Pan

Barrier Lyapunov functions are suitable for learning control designs, due to their feature of finite duration tracking. This paper presents fractional barrier Lyapunov functions, provided and compared with the conventional ones in the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-13 Mingxuan Sun

Designing control policies for stabilization tasks with provable guarantees is a long-standing problem in nonlinear control. A crucial performance metric is the size of the resulting region of attraction, which essentially serves as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Jiarui Wang , Mahyar Fazlyab

In this paper, a triggered Batch Least-Squares Identifier (BaLSI) based adaptive safety control scheme is proposed for uncertain systems with potentially conflicting control objectives and safety constraints. A relaxation term is added to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-25 Jiajun Shen , Wei Wang , Jing Zhou , Jinhu Lü

Recent advances in the reinforcement learning (RL) literature have enabled roboticists to automatically train complex policies in simulated environments. However, due to the poor sample complexity of these methods, solving RL problems using…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Tyler Westenbroek , Fernando Castaneda , Ayush Agrawal , Shankar Sastry , Koushil Sreenath

This paper addresses the critical challenge of developing data-driven certificates for the stability and safety of unmodeled dynamical systems by leveraging a tree data structure and an upper bound of the system's Lipschitz constant.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-25 Amy K. Strong , Ali Kashani , Claus Danielson , Leila J. Bridgeman

We introduce Deep QP Safety Filter, a fully data-driven safety layer for black-box dynamical systems. Our method learns a Quadratic-Program (QP) safety filter without model knowledge by combining Hamilton-Jacobi (HJ) reachability with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Byeongjun Kim , H. Jin Kim

Control barrier function (CBF)-based safety filters provide a systematic way to enforce state constraints, but they can significantly alter the closed-loop dynamics induced by a nominal, stabilizing controller. In particular, the resulting…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-03 Yiting Chen , Pol Mestres , Emiliano Dall'Anese , Jorge Cortés

Control barrier functions (CBFs) have recently been introduced as a systematic tool to ensure safety by establishing set invariance. When combined with a control Lyapunov function (CLF), they form a safety-critical control mechanism.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-22 Mohammad Aali , Jun Liu

With a growing interest in data-driven control techniques, Model Predictive Control (MPC) provides an opportunity to exploit the surplus of data reliably, particularly while taking safety and stability into account. In many real-world and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Mayank Mittal , Marco Gallieri , Alessio Quaglino , Seyed Sina Mirrazavi Salehian , Jan Koutník

Deep learning has enjoyed much recent success, and applying state-of-the-art model learning methods to controls is an exciting prospect. However, there is a strong reluctance to use these methods on safety-critical systems, which have…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-06 David D. Fan , Jennifer Nguyen , Rohan Thakker , Nikhilesh Alatur , Ali-akbar Agha-mohammadi , Evangelos A. Theodorou

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-29 Jhon Manuel Portella Delgado , Ankit Goel

This paper addresses to Sliding Mode Learning Control (SMLC) of uncertain nonlinear systems with Lyapunov stability analysis. In the control scheme, a conventional control term is used to provide the system stability in compact space while…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-23 Erkan Kayacan

Control Lyapunov Functions (CLFs) have been extensively used in the control community. A well-known drawback is the absence of a systematic way to construct CLFs for general nonlinear systems, and the problem can become more complex with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-06 Zheng Gong , Sylvia Herbert
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