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Deep learning methods have been widely used in robotic applications, making learning-enabled control design for complex nonlinear systems a promising direction. Although deep reinforcement learning methods have demonstrated impressive…

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The nervous system reorganizes memories from an early site to a late site, a commonly observed feature of learning and memory systems known as systems consolidation. Previous work has suggested learning rules by which consolidation may…

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This work proposes a novel distributed framework for verifying the incremental stability of large-scale systems with unknown dynamics and known interconnection structures using graph neural networks. Our proposed approach relies on the…

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Aiming at the difficulty of stability analysis in practical application of existing control methods, a controller strategy based on lyapunov stability theory is proposed to realize stable control for any control method. In order to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-15 Ma Le , Cui Kaige , Yan Yiming , Wu Xiaoyue , Gao Nan

Developing stable controllers for large-scale networked dynamical systems is crucial but has long been challenging due to two key obstacles: certifiability and scalability. In this paper, we present a general framework to solve these…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-13 Songyuan Zhang , Yumeng Xiu , Guannan Qu , Chuchu Fan

Modern control systems must operate in increasingly complex environments subject to safety constraints and input limits, and are often implemented in a hierarchical fashion with different controllers running at multiple time scales. Yet…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-04 Noel Csomay-Shanklin , Andrew J. Taylor , Ugo Rosolia , Aaron D. Ames

This paper considers the problem of characterizing the stability region of a large-scale networked system comprised of dissipative nonlinear subsystems, in a distributed and computationally tractable way. One standard approach to estimate…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-19 Amit Jena , Tong Huang , S. Sivaranjani , Dileep Kalathil , Le Xie

Control Lyapunov functions are a central tool in the design and analysis of stabilizing controllers for nonlinear systems. Constructing such functions, however, remains a significant challenge. In this paper, we investigate physics-informed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-01 Jun Liu , Maxwell Fitzsimmons , Ruikun Zhou , Yiming Meng

Machine learning techniques have demonstrated their effectiveness in achieving autonomy and optimality for nonlinear and high-dimensional dynamical systems. However, traditional black-box machine learning methods often lack formal stability…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-03 Kun Wang , Roberto Armellin , Adam Evans , Harry Holt , Zheng Chen

The robust tracking and model following problem of linear discrete-time systems is investigated in this paper. An approach to design robust tracking controllers is proposed. The system is controlled to track dynamic inputs generated from a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-07-12 Omar Zakary , Mostafa Rachik

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are highly vulnerable to adversarial perturbations in both topology and features, making the learning of robust representations a critical challenge. In this work, we bridge GNNs with control theory to introduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Haoyu Chu , Xiaotong Chen , Wei Zhou , Wenjun Cui , Kai Zhao , Shikui Wei , Qiyu Kang

In this paper, we propose a Lyapunov-based reinforcement learning method for distributed control of nonlinear systems comprising interacting subsystems with guaranteed closed-loop stability. Specifically, we conduct a detailed stability…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-17 Jingshi Yao , Minghao Han , Xunyuan Yin

We present a learning-based predictive control methodology using the differentiable programming framework with probabilistic Lyapunov-based stability guarantees. The neural Lyapunov differentiable predictive control (NLDPC) learns the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-27 Sayak Mukherjee , Ján Drgoňa , Aaron Tuor , Mahantesh Halappanavar , Draguna Vrabie

Learning-based neural network (NN) control policies have shown impressive empirical performance in a wide range of tasks in robotics and control. However, formal (Lyapunov) stability guarantees over the region-of-attraction (ROA) for NN…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Lujie Yang , Hongkai Dai , Zhouxing Shi , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Russ Tedrake , Huan Zhang

When neural networks are used to model dynamics, properties such as stability of the dynamics are generally not guaranteed. In contrast, there is a recent method for learning the dynamics of autonomous systems that guarantees global…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Kenji Kashima , Ryota Yoshiuchi , Yu Kawano

This note studies (practical) asymptotic stability of nonlinear networked control systems whose protocols are not necessarily uniformly globally exponentially stable. In particular, we propose a Lyapunov-based approach to establish…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Seyed Hossein Mousavi , Navid Noroozi , Anton H. J. de Ruiter , Roman Geiselhart

In recent years, nonlinear dynamic system identification using artificial neural networks has garnered attention due to its broad potential applications across science and engineering. However, purely data-driven approaches often struggle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Fabian J. Roth , Dominik K. Klein , Maximilian Kannapinn , Jan Peters , Oliver Weeger

Stability certificates play a critical role in ensuring the safety and reliability of robotic systems. However, deriving these certificates for complex, unknown systems has traditionally required explicit knowledge of system dynamics, often…

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In this study, we propose new global stabilization approaches for a class of polynomial systems in both model-based and data-driven settings. The existing model-based approach guarantees global asymptotic stability of the closed-loop system…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-21 Huayuan Huang , M. Kanat Camlibel , Raffaella Carloni , Henk J. van Waarde