Imitation learning with stability and safety guarantees

H Yin, P Seiler, M Jin, M Arcak - IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A method is presented to learn neural network (NN) controllers with stability and safety
guarantees through imitation learning (IL). Convex stability and safety conditions are derived …

Safe and stable secondary voltage control of microgrids based on explicit neural networks

Z Ma, Q Zhang, Z Wang - IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes a novel safety-critical secondary voltage control method based on
explicit neural networks (NNs) for islanded microgrids (MGs) that can guarantee any state …

Differentiable predictive control: Deep learning alternative to explicit model predictive control for unknown nonlinear systems

J Drgoňa, K Kiš, A Tuor, D Vrabie, M Klaučo - Journal of Process Control, 2022 - Elsevier
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 …

Distributed neural network control with dependability guarantees: a compositional port-Hamiltonian approach

L Furieri, CL Galimberti, M Zakwan… - … for dynamics and …, 2022 - proceedings.mlr.press
Large-scale cyber-physical systems require that control policies are distributed, that is, that
they only rely on local real-time measurements and communication with neighboring agents …

Event-triggered neural network control using quadratic constraints for perturbed systems

C de Souza, A Girard, S Tarbouriech - Automatica, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the event-triggered control problem for perturbed systems under
neural network controllers. We propose a novel event-triggering mechanism, based on local …

Convolutional neural networks as 2-d systems

D Gramlich, P Pauli, CW Scherer, F Allgöwer… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
This paper introduces a novel representation of convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) in
terms of 2-D dynamical systems. To this end, the usual description of convolutional layers …

Linear systems with neural network nonlinearities: Improved stability analysis via acausal Zames-Falb multipliers

P Pauli, D Gramlich, J Berberich… - 2021 60th IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we analyze the stability of feedback interconnections of a linear time-invariant
system with a neural network nonlinearity in discrete time. Our analysis is based on …

Neural network training under semidefinite constraints

P Pauli, N Funcke, D Gramlich… - 2022 IEEE 61st …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper is concerned with the training of neural networks (NNs) under semidefinite
constraints, which allows for NN training with robustness and stability guarantees. In …

Neural system level synthesis: Learning over all stabilizing policies for nonlinear systems

L Furieri, CL Galimberti… - 2022 IEEE 61st …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We address the problem of designing stabilizing control policies for nonlinear systems in
discrete-time, while minimizing an arbitrary cost function. When the system is linear and the …

Enhancing deep reinforcement learning with integral action to control tokamak safety factor

A Mattioni, S Zoboli, B Mavkov, D Astolfi… - Fusion Engineering and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Recent advances in the use of Artificial Intelligence to control complex systems make it
suitable for profile plasma control. In this work, we propose an algorithm based on Deep …