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5 papers

eess.SY2026

Aggressiveness-Aware Learning-based Control of Quadrotor UAVs with Safety Guarantees

Leonardo Colombo, Thomas Beckers, Juan Giribet

This paper presents an aggressiveness-aware control framework for quadrotor UAVs that integrates learning-based oracles to mitigate the effects of unknown disturbances. Starting fr…

eess.SY2026

CBDs: Differentiable Causal Block Diagrams

Thomas Beckers, Ján Drgoňa, Truong X. Nghiem

Modern cyber-physical systems (CPS) integrate physics, computation, and learning, demanding modeling frameworks that are simultaneously composable, learnable, and verifiable. Yet e…

eess.SY2025

Inference in Latent Force Models Using Optimal State Estimation

Tobias M. Wolff, Victor G. Lopez, Matthias A. Müller +1

Latent force models, a class of hybrid modeling approaches, integrate physical knowledge of system dynamics with a latent force - an unknown, unmeasurable input modeled as a Gaussi…

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.SY2025

Physics-informed Learning for Passivity-based Tracking Control

Thomas Beckers, Leonardo Colombo

Passivity-based control ensures system stability by leveraging dissipative properties and is widely applied in electrical and mechanical systems. Port-Hamiltonian systems (PHS), in…