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
A Tutorial on Modeling and Control of Slippage in Wheeled Mobile Robots
Khuram Naveed
Physics-Informed Machine Learning for Modeling and Control of Dynamical Systems
Truong X. Nghiem, Ján Drgoňa, Colin Jones, Zoltan Nagy, Roland Schwan, Biswadip Dey, Ankush Chakrabarty, Stefano Di Cairano, Joel A. Paulson, Andrea Carron, Melanie N. Zeilinger, Wenceslao Shaw Cortez, Draguna L. Vrabie
Addressing Discontinuous Root-Finding for Subsequent Differentiability in Machine Learning, Inverse Problems, and Control
Daniel Johnson, Ronald Fedkiw
Static-Equilibrium Oriented Interaction Force Modeling and Control of Aerial Manipulation with Uni-Directional Thrust Multirotors
Tong Hui, Matteo Fumagalli
Modeling and Control of a Novel Variable Stiffness Three DoFs Wrist
Giuseppe Milazzo, Manuel Giuseppe Catalano, Antonio Bicchi, Giorgio Grioli
MTCue: Learning Zero-Shot Control of Extra-Textual Attributes by Leveraging Unstructured Context in Neural Machine Translation
Sebastian Vincent, Robert Flynn, Carolina Scarton