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most citedRethinking Safe Control in the Presence of Self-Seeking Humans

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eess.SY2026

Generalizable Output Feedback Optimal Control via Transformers Without Explicit State Estimation

Maitham F. AL-Sunni, Turki Bin Mohaya, John M. Dolan +1

Classical optimal control is used to design a separate controller for each plant. This paper asks a different question. Can one learned policy serve a whole family of partially obs…

physics.comp-ph2026

Self-Shielded Multigroup Microscopic Cross Section Generation Using Targeted Artificial Neural Networks

Joshua Nichols, Andrew Osborne, Ben Whewell +1

Multigroup neutron transport models are used widely in simulation codes due to their memory and compute efficiency compared to continuous energy methods. However, multigroup codes…

cs.RO2026

LBA-CBF: Rapidly Adaptive Safety Filters via Parallel Dynamics Inference

Maitham F. AL-Sunni, Timeea-Andreea Radu, Hassan Almubarak +4

Control barrier functions (CBFs) certify commands through an assumed dynamics model, so an abrupt, unmeasured regime change can undermine the certificate exactly when safety matter…

cs.RO2026

LLA-MPC on Embedded Hardware: Rapid Adaptive Control with Thousands of Parallel Models

Henry Z. Liao, Maitham F. AL-Sunni, John M. Dolan

We present a generalized implementation of Look-Back and Look-Ahead Adaptive Model Predictive Control (LLA-MPC), a learning-free framework for real-time, rapid adaptive system iden…

eess.SY2026

Generalizable Optimal Control with Transformers: Closed-Loop Certification and Near-Optimality Guarantees

Turki Bin Mohaya, Maitham F. AL-Sunni, John M. Dolan +1

This letter develops closed-loop performance certificates for a transformer-based feedback policy. The policy is trained to imitate optimal Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR) control…

eess.SY2026

Generalizable Optimal Control with Transformers: One Policy Across Diverse Systems

Turki Bin Mohaya, Maitham F. AL-Sunni, John M. Dolan +1

Classical optimal control designs a separate controller for each plant. Even for the Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR), every new model must be identified and its Riccati equation r…

cs.RO2025

LLA-MPC: Fast Adaptive Control for Autonomous Racing

Maitham F. AL-Sunni, Hassan Almubarak, Katherine Horng +1

We present Look-Back and Look-Ahead Adaptive Model Predictive Control (LLA-MPC), a real-time adaptive control framework for autonomous racing that addresses the challenge of rapidl…

eess.SY2025

Safety Embedded Adaptive Control Using Barrier States

Maitham F. AL-Sunni, Hassan Almubarak, John M. Dolan

In this work, we explore the application of barrier states (BaS) in the realm of safe nonlinear adaptive control. Our proposed framework derives barrier states for systems with par…

eess.SY2025

Barrier-Riccati Synthesis for Nonlinear Safe Control with Expanded Region of Attraction

Hassan Almubarak, Maitham F. AL-Sunni, Justin T. Dubbin +3

We present a Riccati-based framework for safety-critical nonlinear control that integrates the barrier states (BaS) methodology with the State-Dependent Riccati Equation (SDRE) app…

cs.HC2022★ 1 cited

Rethinking Safe Control in the Presence of Self-Seeking Humans

Zixuan Zhang, Maitham AL-Sunni, Haoming Jing +2

Safe control methods are often intended to behave safely even in worst-case human uncertainties. However, humans may exploit such safety-first systems, which results in greater ris…