External Control
External control research focuses on developing methods to precisely manipulate and regulate the behavior of complex systems, ranging from robots and large language models to physical processes and biological systems. Current research emphasizes the development of robust and efficient control algorithms, often leveraging deep reinforcement learning, model predictive control, and generative models, alongside novel architectures like hybrid systems and multi-agent approaches. These advancements are crucial for improving the performance, safety, and adaptability of autonomous systems across diverse applications, from robotics and manufacturing to healthcare and environmental monitoring. The development of more efficient and generalizable control methods remains a key focus.
Papers
Upside-Down Reinforcement Learning for More Interpretable Optimal Control
Juan Cardenas-Cartagena, Massimiliano Falzari, Marco Zullich, Matthia Sabatelli
Operator Splitting Covariance Steering for Safe Stochastic Nonlinear Control
Akash Ratheesh, Vincent Pacelli, Augustinos D. Saravanos, Evangelos A. Theodorou
Recommender systems and reinforcement learning for building control and occupant interaction: A text-mining driven review of scientific literature
Wenhao Zhang, Matias Quintana, Clayton Miller
Control of Biohybrid Actuators using NeuroEvolution
Hugo Alcaraz-Herrera, Michail-Antisthenis Tsompanas, Andrew Adamatzky, Igor Balaz
Interpretable and Efficient Data-driven Discovery and Control of Distributed Systems
Florian Wolf, Nicolò Botteghi, Urban Fasel, Andrea Manzoni
Design and control of a robotic payload stabilization mechanism for rocket flights
Utkarsh Anand, Diya Parekh, Thakur Pranav G. Singh, Hrishikesh S. Yadav, Ramya S. Moorthy, Srinivas G
Coupled autoregressive active inference agents for control of multi-joint dynamical systems
Tim N. Nisslbeck, Wouter M. Kouw
Dreaming to Assist: Learning to Align with Human Objectives for Shared Control in High-Speed Racing
Jonathan DeCastro, Andrew Silva, Deepak Gopinath, Emily Sumner, Thomas M. Balch, Laporsha Dees, Guy Rosman
Make the Pertinent Salient: Task-Relevant Reconstruction for Visual Control with Distractions
Kyungmin Kim, JB Lanier, Pierre Baldi, Charless Fowlkes, Roy Fox
Control the GNN: Utilizing Neural Controller with Lyapunov Stability for Test-Time Feature Reconstruction
Jielong Yang, Rui Ding, Feng Ji, Hongbin Wang, Linbo Xie