activity
20242026
collaborators

11 papers

eess.SY2026

Model-Agnostic Meta Learning for Differentiable MPC

Salma Elfeki, Riccardo Zuliani, Niklas Schmid +2

Applying policy optimization to Model Predictive Control (MPC) yields high-performance and reliable controllers. However, the resulting controllers often overfit their training con…

eess.SY2026

Multi-scale closed-loop melt pool control for LPBF via policy optimization

Junan Lin, Riccardo Zuliani, Baris Kavas +3

Laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) is a metal additive manufacturing process where temperature stabilization is of vital importance to avoid defects such as distortion and cracking. Ex…

eess.SY2026

Policy Optimization for Unknown Systems using Differentiable Model Predictive Control

Riccardo Zuliani, Efe C. Balta, John Lygeros

Model-based policy optimization often struggles with inaccurate system dynamics models, leading to suboptimal closed-loop performance. This challenge is especially evident in Model…

eess.SY2026

Policy Optimization with Differentiable MPC: Convergence Analysis under Uncertainty

Riccardo Zuliani, Efe C. Balta, John Lygeros

Model-based policy optimization is a well-established framework for designing reliable and high-performance controllers across a wide range of control applications. Recently, this…

math.OC2025

Differentiable-by-design Nonlinear Optimization for Model Predictive Control

Riccardo Zuliani, Efe C. Balta, John Lygeros

Nonlinear optimization-based control policies, such as those those arising in nonlinear Model Predictive Control, have seen remarkable success in recent years. These policies requi…

math.OC2025

Loss-aware distributionally robust optimization via trainable optimal transport ambiguity sets

Jonas Ohnemus, Marta Fochesato, Riccardo Zuliani +1

Optimal-Transport Distributionally Robust Optimization (OT-DRO) robustifies data-driven decision-making under uncertainty by capturing the sampling-induced statistical error via op…