What is robotics? Why do we need it and how can we get it?

DE Koditschek - Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Robotics is an emerging synthetic science concerned with programming work. Robot
technologies are quickly advancing beyond the insights of the existing science. More secure …

[HTML][HTML] Review on computational methods for Lyapunov functions

P Giesl, S Hafstein - Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems …, 2015 - aimsciences.org
Lyapunov functions are an essential tool in the stability analysis of dynamical systems, both
in theory and applications. They provide sufficient conditions for the stability of equilibria or …

Learning stability certificates from data

N Boffi, S Tu, N Matni, JJ Slotine… - Conference on Robot …, 2021 - proceedings.mlr.press
Many existing tools in nonlinear control theory for establishing stability or safety of a
dynamical system can be distilled to the construction of a certificate function which …

Robustness analysis of a power-type varying-parameter recurrent neural network for solving time-varying QM and QP problems and applications

Z Zhang, L Kong, L Zheng, P Zhang… - … on Systems, Man …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Varying-parameter recurrent neural network, being a special kind of neural-dynamic
methodology, has revealed powerful abilities to handle various time-varying problems, such …

Cross-layer distributed control strategy for cyber resilient microgrids

Q Zhou, M Shahidehpour… - … on Smart Grid, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The widespread adoption of communication and control infrastructures will not only improve
the microgrid system performance in normal conditions but also increase microgrid …

Nonlinear fractional-order circuits and systems: Motivation, a brief overview, and some future directions

MS Tavazoei, M Tavakoli-Kakhki… - IEEE Open Journal of …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, fractional-order differential operators, and the dynamic models constructed
based on these generalized operators have been widely considered in design and practical …

[HTML][HTML] Sampled-data extremum-seeking framework for constrained optimization of nonlinear dynamical systems

L Hazeleger, D Nešić, N van de Wouw - Automatica, 2022 - Elsevier
Most extremum-seeking control (ESC) approaches focus solely on the problem of finding the
extremum of some unknown, steady-state input–output map, providing parameter settings …

[HTML][HTML] Non-coercive Lyapunov functions for infinite-dimensional systems

A Mironchenko, F Wirth - Journal of Differential Equations, 2019 - Elsevier
We show that the existence of a non-coercive Lyapunov function is sufficient for uniform
global asymptotic stability (UGAS) of infinite-dimensional systems with external disturbances …

Automated and sound synthesis of Lyapunov functions with SMT solvers

D Ahmed, A Peruffo, A Abate - Tools and Algorithms for the Construction …, 2020 - Springer
In this paper we employ SMT solvers to soundly synthesise Lyapunov functions that assert
the stability of a given dynamical model. The search for a Lyapunov function is framed as the …

From gradient flow on population loss to learning with stochastic gradient descent

CM De Sa, S Kale, JD Lee… - Advances in Neural …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Abstract Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) has been the method of choice for learning
large-scale non-convex models. While a general analysis of when SGD works has been …