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A class of data-driven control methods has recently emerged based on Willems' fundamental lemma. Such methods can ease the modelling burden in control design but can be sensitive to disturbances acting on the system under control. In this…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-06 Edward O'Dwyer , Eric C. Kerrigan , Paola Falugi , Marta A. Zagorowska , Nilay Shah

The paper deals with regression problems, in which the nonsmooth target is assumed to switch between different operating modes. Specifically, piecewise smooth (PWS) regression considers target functions switching deterministically via a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-14 Fabien Lauer

The Willems' fundamental lemma, which characterizes linear dynamics with measured trajectories, has found successful applications in controller design and signal processing, which has driven a broad research interest in its extension to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-01 Yingzhao Lian , Colin N. Jones

We study damping of inter-area oscillations in transmission grids using voltage-source-converter-based high-voltage direct-current (VSC-HVDC) links. Conventional power oscillation damping controllers rely on system models that are difficult…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-28 Giacomo Mastroddi , Jan Poland , Mats Larsson , Keith Moffat

We propose a learning-based robust predictive control algorithm that compensates for significant uncertainty in the dynamics for a class of discrete-time systems that are nominally linear with an additive nonlinear component. Such systems…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-05 Rohan Sinha , James Harrison , Spencer M. Richards , Marco Pavone

We introduce the Differentiable Weightless Neural Network (DWN), a model based on interconnected lookup tables. Training of DWNs is enabled by a novel Extended Finite Difference technique for approximate differentiation of binary values. We…

We propose a learning-based robust predictive control algorithm that compensates for significant uncertainty in the dynamics for a class of discrete-time systems that are nominally linear with an additive nonlinear component. Such systems…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-15 Rohan Sinha , James Harrison , Spencer M. Richards , Marco Pavone

Predictive Coding (PC) offers a brain-inspired alternative to backpropagation for neural network training, described as a physical system minimizing its internal energy. However, in practice, PC is predominantly digitally simulated,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Cédric Goemaere , Gaspard Oliviers , Rafal Bogacz , Thomas Demeester

We present a robust data-driven control scheme for an unknown linear system model with bounded process and measurement noise. Instead of depending on a system model in traditional predictive control, a controller utilizing data-driven…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-14 Amr Alanwar , Yvonne Stürz , Karl Henrik Johansson

Data-driven control of discrete-time and continuous-time systems is of tremendous research interest. In this paper, we explore data-driven optimal control of continuous-time linear systems using input-output data. Based on a density result,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-18 Philipp Schmitz , Timm Faulwasser , Paolo Rapisarda , Karl Worthmann

Control invariant set is critical for guaranteeing safe control and the problem of computing control invariant set for linear discrete-time system is revisited in this paper by using a data-driven approach. Specifically, sample points on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-24 Jun Xu , Fanglin Chen

Model inversion is a fundamental technique in feedforward control. Unstable inverse models present a challenge in that useful feedforward control trajectories cannot be generated by directly propagating them. Stable inversion is a process…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-16 Isaac A. Spiegel , Nard Strijbosch , Robin de Rozario , Tom Oomen , Kira Barton

Recently, data-driven predictive control of linear systems has received wide-spread research attention. It hinges on the fundamental lemma by Willems et al. In a previous paper, we have shown how this framework can be applied to predictive…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-02 Philipp Schmitz , Alexander Engelmann , Timm Faulwasser , Karl Worthmann

We introduce a differentiable framework for zero-shot adaptive control over parametric families of nonlinear dynamical systems. Our approach integrates a function encoder-based neural ODE (FE-NODE) for modeling system dynamics with a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-16 Hassan Iqbal , Xingjian Li , Tyler Ingebrand , Adam Thorpe , Krishna Kumar , Ufuk Topcu , Ján Drgoňa

We investigate whether continuous-control policies can be represented and learned as discrete logic circuits instead of continuous neural networks. We introduce Differentiable Weightless Controllers (DWCs), a symbolic-differentiable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Fabian Kresse , Christoph H. Lampert

This paper presents a new data-driven control for multi-input, multi-output nonlinear systems with partially unknown dynamics and bounded disturbances. Since exact nonlinearity cancellation is not feasible with unknown disturbances, we…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-08 Jianglin Lan , Xianxian Zhao , Congcong Sun

In this letter, we discuss the problem of optimal control for affine systems in the context of data-driven linear programming. First, we introduce a unified framework for the fixed point characterization of the value function, Q-function…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-12 Andrea Martinelli , Matilde Gargiani , Marina Draskovic , John Lygeros

Deep neural networks do not discriminate between spurious and causal patterns, and will only learn the most predictive ones while ignoring the others. This shortcut learning behaviour is detrimental to a network's ability to generalize to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Thomas Duboudin , Emmanuel Dellandréa , Corentin Abgrall , Gilles Hénaff , Liming Chen

Although classical model predictive control with finite control sets (FCS-MPC) is quite a popular control method, particularly in the realm of power electronics systems, its direct data-driven predictive control (FCS-DPC) counterpart has…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-29 Manuel Klädtke , Moritz Schulze Darup , Daniel E. Quevedo

Nonlinear expressions are often approximated by piecewise affine (PWA) functions to simplify analysis or reduce computational costs. To reduce computational complexity, multivariate functions can be represented as compositions of functions…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-27 Jonah J. Glunt , Jacob A. Siefert , Andrew F. Thompson , Herschel C. Pangborn