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20242026
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7 papers

eess.SY2026

Free Parametrization of L_2-Bounded Structured State-Space Controllers for Nonlinear Control with Stability Guarantees

Muhammad Zakwan, Leonardo Massai, Efe C. Balta +1

Designing stabilizing control policies for nonlinear systems while optimizing complex objectives remains a formidable challenge. Neural networks (NNs), despite their expressive pow…

cs.AI2026

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Flexible Job Shop Scheduling with Random Job Arrivals

Yu Tang, Muhammad Zakwan, Efe Balta +2

The Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Problem (FJSP) is the optimal allocation of a set of jobs to machines. Two primary challenges persist in FJSP: the unpredictable arrival of future…

eess.SY2026

L2RU: a Structured State Space Model with prescribed L2-bound

Leonardo Massai, Muhammad Zakwan, Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate

Structured state-space models (SSMs) have recently emerged as a powerful architecture at the intersection of machine learning and control, featuring layers composed of discrete-tim…

eess.SY2026

Controller Design for Structured State-space Models via Contraction Theory

Muhammad Zakwan, Vaibhav Gupta, Alireza Karimi +2

This paper presents an indirect data-driven output feedback controller synthesis for nonlinear systems, leveraging Structured State-space Models (SSMs) as surrogate models. SSMs ha…

cs.LG2025

Robust Convolution Neural ODEs via Contractivity-promoting regularization

Muhammad Zakwan, Liang Xu, Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate

Neural networks can be fragile to input noise and adversarial attacks. In this work, we consider Convolutional Neural Ordinary Differential Equations (NODEs), a family of continuou…

eess.SY2024

Neural Port-Hamiltonian Models for Nonlinear Distributed Control: An Unconstrained Parametrization Approach

Muhammad Zakwan, Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate

The control of large-scale cyber-physical systems requires optimal distributed policies relying solely on limited communication with neighboring agents. However, computing stabiliz…