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most citedPhysics-informed machine learning for building performance simulation-A review of a nascent field

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eess.SY2026

Topological Feasibility Guarantees for Differentiable Predictive Control

Guangyu Wu, Ján Drgoňa

Differentiable predictive control (DPC), a self-supervised learning approach for approximating explicit model predictive control (MPC) policies, offers significant computational ad…

eess.SY2025

Voltage-Regulated Sparse Optimization for Proactive Diagnosis of Voltage Collapses

Qinghua Ma, Seyyedali Hosseinalipour, Ming Shi +2

This paper aims to proactively diagnose and manage the voltage collapse risks, i.e., the risk of bus voltages violating the safe operational bounds, which can be caused by extreme…

eess.SY2025★ 70 cited

Physics-informed machine learning for building performance simulation-A review of a nascent field

Zixin Jiang, Xuezheng Wang, Han Li +5

Building performance simulation (BPS) is critical for understanding building dynamics and behavior, analyzing performance of the built environment, optimizing energy efficiency, im…

eess.SY2025

Safe Physics-Informed Machine Learning for Dynamics and Control

Jan Drgona, Truong X. Nghiem, Thomas Beckers +6

This tutorial paper focuses on safe physics-informed machine learning in the context of dynamics and control, providing a comprehensive overview of how to integrate physical models…

eess.SY2023

A Robust, Efficient Predictive Safety Filter

Wenceslao Shaw Cortez, Jan Drgona, Draguna Vrabie +1

In this paper, we propose a novel predictive safety filter that is robust to bounded perturbations and is implemented in an even-triggered fashion to reduce online computation. The…

eess.SY2023★ 2 cited

Physics-Informed Machine Learning for Modeling and Control of Dynamical Systems

Truong X. Nghiem, Ján Drgoňa, Colin Jones +10

Physics-informed machine learning (PIML) is a set of methods and tools that systematically integrate machine learning (ML) algorithms with physical constraints and abstract mathema…

eess.SY2023

Power Grid Behavioral Patterns and Risks of Generalization in Applied Machine Learning

Shimiao Li, Jan Drgona, Shrirang Abhyankar +1

Recent years have seen a rich literature of data-driven approaches designed for power grid applications. However, insufficient consideration of domain knowledge can impose a high r…

eess.SY2022★ 1 cited

Differentiable Predictive Control with Safety Guarantees: A Control Barrier Function Approach

Wenceslao Shaw Cortez, Jan Drgona, Aaron Tuor +2

We develop a novel form of differentiable predictive control (DPC) with safety and robustness guarantees based on control barrier functions. DPC is an unsupervised learning-based m…

eess.SY2022★ 14 cited

Neural Lyapunov Differentiable Predictive Control

Sayak Mukherjee, Ján Drgoňa, Aaron Tuor +2

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

eess.SY2022

Data-driven Stabilization of Discrete-time Control-affine Nonlinear Systems: A Koopman Operator Approach

Subhrajit Sinha, Sai Pushpak Nandanoori, Jan Drgona +1

In recent years data-driven analysis of dynamical systems has attracted a lot of attention and transfer operator techniques, namely, Perron-Frobenius and Koopman operators are bein…

eess.SY2022

Neuro-physical dynamic load modeling using differentiable parametric optimization

Shrirang Abhyankar, Jan Drgona, Andrew August +2

In this work, we investigate a data-driven approach for obtaining a reduced equivalent load model of distribution systems for electromechanical transient stability analysis. The pr…

eess.SY2022

Koopman-based Differentiable Predictive Control for the Dynamics-Aware Economic Dispatch Problem

Ethan King, Jan Drgona, Aaron Tuor +4

The dynamics-aware economic dispatch (DED) problem embeds low-level generator dynamics and operational constraints to enable near real-time scheduling of generation units in a powe…

eess.SY2021

Deep Learning Explicit Differentiable Predictive Control Laws for Buildings

Jan Drgona, Aaron Tuor, Soumya Vasisht +2

We present a differentiable predictive control (DPC) methodology for learning constrained control laws for unknown nonlinear systems. DPC poses an approximate solution to multipara…

eess.SY2020★ 2 cited

Deep Learning Alternative to Explicit Model Predictive Control for Unknown Nonlinear Systems

Jan Drgona, Karol Kis, Aaron Tuor +2

We present differentiable predictive control (DPC) as a deep learning-based alternative to the explicit model predictive control (MPC) for unknown nonlinear systems. In the DPC fra…

eess.SY2020★ 22 cited

Constrained Neural Ordinary Differential Equations with Stability Guarantees

Aaron Tuor, Jan Drgona, Draguna Vrabie

Differential equations are frequently used in engineering domains, such as modeling and control of industrial systems, where safety and performance guarantees are of paramount impo…

eess.SY2020★ 12 cited

Learning Constrained Adaptive Differentiable Predictive Control Policies With Guarantees

Jan Drgona, Aaron Tuor, Draguna Vrabie

We present differentiable predictive control (DPC), a method for learning constrained neural control policies for linear systems with probabilistic performance guarantees. We emplo…