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20192026
most citedSafe and Fast Tracking on a Robot Manipulator: Robust MPC and Neural Network Control

230 citations · 372 across the 23 of their papers we have counts for

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27 papers

eess.SY2026

Data-Driven Robust MPC for Unknown Nonlinear Systems via Set-Membership Learning

Yuzhou Wei, Wenjie Liu, Yifan Xie +3

Data-driven model predictive control (MPC) has become an attractive approach for controlling unknown systems, especially when data are corrupted by noise. However, most existing da…

math.OC2026

On stability and non-averaged performance of economic MPC with terminal conditions for optimal periodic operation

Jonas Mair, Lukas Schwenkel, Matthias A. Müller +1

Operation at steady state is often not optimal when optimizing over an economic cost objective. In many cases, periodic operation yields better performance. Therefore, we derive as…

math.OC2026

Discrete-Time Event-Triggered Extremum Seeking

Victor Hugo Pereira Rodrigues, Tiago Roux Oliveira, Miroslav Krstić +1

This paper proposes a discrete-time event-triggered extremum seeking control scheme for real-time optimization of nonlinear systems. Unlike conventional discrete-time implementatio…

eess.SY2026

Robust IMMPC: An Offset-free MPC for Rejecting Unknown Disturbances

Felix Brändle, Frank Allgöwer

Output regulation is the problem of finding a control input to asymptotically track reference trajectories and reject disturbances. This can be addressed by using the internal mode…

eess.SY2026

Adaptive Data-Driven Min-Max MPC for Linear Time-Varying Systems

Yifan Xie, Julian Berberich, Frank Allgöwer

In this paper, we propose an adaptive data-driven min-max model predictive control (MPC) scheme for discrete-time linear time-varying (LTV) systems. We assume that prior knowledge…

eess.SY2026

Safety for Weakly-Hard Control Systems via Graph-Based Barrier Functions

Marc Seidel, Mahathi Anand, Frank Allgöwer

Despite significant advancement in technology, communication and computational failures are still prevalent in safety-critical engineering applications. Often, networked control sy…

eess.SY2025

Comparison and performance analysis of dynamic encrypted control approaches

Sebastian Schlor, Frank Allgöwer

Encrypted controllers using homomorphic encryption have proven to guarantee the privacy of measurement and control signals, as well as system and controller parameters, while regul…

eess.SY2025★ 20 cited

An overview of Koopman-based control: From error bounds to closed-loop guarantees

Robin Strässer, Karl Worthmann, Igor Mezić +3

Controlling nonlinear dynamical systems remains a central challenge in a wide range of applications, particularly when accurate first-principle models are unavailable. Data-driven…

eess.SY2025

Bilinear Data-Driven Min-Max MPC: Designing Rational Controllers via Sum-of-squares Optimization

Yifan Xie, Julian Berberich, Robin Strässer +1

We propose a data-driven min-max model predictive control (MPC) scheme to control unknown discrete-time bilinear systems. Based on a sequence of noisy input-state data, we state a…

eess.SY2025

Output-feedback model predictive control under dynamic uncertainties using integral quadratic constraints

Lukas Schwenkel, Johannes Köhler, Matthias A. Müller +1

In this work, we propose an output-feedback tube-based model predictive control (MPC) scheme for linear systems under dynamic uncertainties that are described via integral quadrati…

eess.SY2025

On the Completeness and Ordering of Path-Complete Barrier Functions

Mahathi Anand, Raphaël Jungers, Majid Zamani +1

This paper is concerned with path-complete barrier functions which offer a graph-based methodology for verifying safety properties in switched systems. The path-complete framework…

eess.SY2025★ 10 cited

Kernel-based error bounds of bilinear Koopman surrogate models for nonlinear data-driven control

Robin Strässer, Manuel Schaller, Julian Berberich +2

We derive novel deterministic bounds on the approximation error of data-based bilinear surrogate models for unknown nonlinear systems. The surrogate models are constructed using ke…

math.OC2024

Robust targeted exploration for systems with non-stochastic disturbances

Janani Venkatasubramanian, Johannes Köhler, Mark Cannon +1

We propose a novel targeted exploration strategy designed specifically for uncertain linear time-invariant systems with energy-bounded disturbances, i.e., without any assumptions o…

eess.SY2024★ 1 cited

Robust performance for switched systems with constrained switching and its application to weakly hard real-time control systems

Simon Lang, Marc Seidel, Frank Allgöwer

Many cyber-physical systems can naturally be formulated as switched systems with constrained switching. This includes systems where one of the signals in the feedback loop may be l…

eess.SY2024

Data-Driven Min-Max MPC for LPV Systems with Unknown Scheduling Signal

Yifan Xie, Julian Berberich, Felix Brändle +1

This paper presents a data-driven min-max model predictive control (MPC) scheme for linear parameter-varying (LPV) systems. Contrary to existing data-driven LPV control approaches,…

eess.SY2024★ 5 cited

Koopman-based control of nonlinear systems with closed-loop guarantees

Robin Strässer, Julian Berberich, Manuel Schaller +2

In this paper, we provide a tutorial overview and an extension of a recently developed framework for data-driven control of unknown nonlinear systems with rigorous closed-loop guar…

eess.SY2024

A System Parametrization for Direct Data-Driven Analysis and Control with Error-in-Variables

Felix Brändle, Frank Allgöwer

In this paper, we present a new parametrization to perform direct data-driven analysis and controller synthesis for the error-in-variables case. To achieve this, we employ the Sher…

eess.SY2024★ 4 cited

Koopman-based control using sum-of-squares optimization: Improved stability guarantees and data efficiency

Robin Strässer, Julian Berberich, Frank Allgöwer

In this paper, we propose a novel controller design approach for unknown nonlinear systems using the Koopman operator. In particular, we use the recently proposed stability- and fe…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

LipKernel: Lipschitz-Bounded Convolutional Neural Networks via Dissipative Layers

Patricia Pauli, Ruigang Wang, Ian Manchester +1

We propose a novel layer-wise parameterization for convolutional neural networks (CNNs) that includes built-in robustness guarantees by enforcing a prescribed Lipschitz bound. Each…

eess.SY2024★ 6 cited

A System Parameterization for Direct Data-Driven Estimator Synthesis

Felix Brändle, Frank Allgöwer

This paper introduces a novel parameterization to characterize unknown linear time-invariant systems using noisy data. The presented parameterization describes exactly the set of a…

eess.SY2024★ 4 cited

End-to-end guarantees for indirect data-driven control of bilinear systems with finite stochastic data

Nicolas Chatzikiriakos, Robin Strässer, Frank Allgöwer +1

In this paper we propose an end-to-end algorithm for indirect data-driven control for bilinear systems with stability guarantees. We consider the case where the collected i.i.d. da…

eess.SY2024★ 8 cited

Data-driven MPC with terminal conditions in the Koopman framework

Karl Worthmann, Robin Strässer, Manuel Schaller +2

We investigate nonlinear model predictive control (MPC) with terminal conditions in the Koopman framework using extended dynamic mode decomposition (EDMD) to generate a data-based…

eess.SY2022

Linear Data-Driven Economic MPC with Generalized Terminal Constraint

Yifan Xie, Julian Berberich, Frank Allgöwer

In this paper, we propose a data-driven economic model predictive control (EMPC) scheme with generalized terminal constraint to control an unknown linear time-invariant system. Our…

eess.SY2022

Robust peak-to-peak gain analysis using integral quadratic constraints

Lukas Schwenkel, Johannes Köhler, Matthias A. Müller +1

This work provides a framework to compute an upper bound on the robust peak-to-peak gain of discrete-time uncertain linear systems using integral quadratic constraints (IQCs). Such…