Data-Driven Control

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Data-driven control studies how to choose actions from measured system responses, either without an explicit model or with a model learned from data. Common approaches include behavioral methods such as Willems' fundamental lemma and data-enabled predictive control, Koopman and reproducing-kernel operator models, neural dynamics models inside model predictive control, and reinforcement learning or direct policy learning. These methods are applied to robots, vehicles, traffic, and energy systems, often combining predictive optimization with physical structure, passivity, Lyapunov constraints, or safety filters. A central challenge is balancing data efficiency and adaptation to changing conditions with reliable stability, constraint satisfaction, and performance beyond the training data.

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  1. RoKON: Efficient and Adaptive Data-Enabled Predictive Control for Robotic Manipulation

    Oct 26, 2026Akshun Sharma, Zhongqi Wei, Buqing Ou +1Data-Driven ControlReal-Time Robot Control

    Maryland Applied Graduate Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA · Department of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA

  2. Beyond Planning: Differentiable Control-in-the-loop End-to-End Autonomous Driving

    Oct 13, 2026Zhidong Wang, Zirui Li, Zitong Shan +6End-to-End Autonomous DrivingData-Driven Control

    School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore · Collaborative Initiative, Interdisciplinary Graduate Programme, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore · College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

  3. Towards Optimal Inventory Control under Censored Demand: A Biased Sample-Average Approximation Approach

    Sep 30, 2026Yuxuan Han, Xiaoyu Fan, Jiawei Zhang +1Inventory ControlLearning with Missing Data

    Stern School of Business, New York University

  4. Learning from Shared-Control Overrides: Context-Driven Acceleration Profile Prediction for Personalized Overtaking

    Sep 29, 2026Ruizheng Xu, Lounis Adouane, Javier Ibañez-Guzmán +1Autonomous DrivingData-Driven Control

    Heudiasyc · Ampere Software Technology, Renault Group, Guyancourt, France.

  5. Think Fast, Plan Selectively: Adaptive Deliberation for Efficient Data-Driven MPC

    Sep 26, 2026Yi Xian Goh, Sze Jue Yang, Hao LuanAdaptive MPCData-Driven Control

    Independent Researcher · Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Malaya · School of Computing, National University of Singapore

  6. HydroSphere: A Framework for Governed, Self-Healing Wastewater Infrastructure

    Sep 24, 2026Prabu, Fancy C, Suresh A +1Data-Driven ControlAnomaly Detection

  7. Wheel-loader V-Cycle Automation with Deep Koopman MPC

    Sep 22, 2026Armin Abdolmohammadi, Navid Mojahed, Dinesh Kumar +2Robotic ConstructionData-Driven Control

    Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA, USA.

  8. Learning Neural Feedback Linearization for Data-driven Systems via Augmented Lagrangian

    Sep 21, 2026Lakshmi Priya P. K., Andreas SchwungData-Driven ControlFeedback Control

    Department of Automation Technology and Learning Systems, South Westphalia University of Applied Sciences,Lübecker Ring 2, Soest, 59494, Germany

  9. Assistance Torque Estimation via Dynamics-Aware Optimization for Lower-Limb Exoskeleton in Complex Environments

    Sep 14, 2026Xiao-Yin Liu, Guotao Li, Weiqun Wang +1Data-Driven ControlAnkle Exoskeleton Control

    State Key Laboratory of Multimodal Artificial Intelligence Systems, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. · The School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy Sciences, Beijing, China.

  10. Learned Bow Control on a Measured Bowed-String Model: a Revised Minimum-Bow-Force Law, a Recurrent Controller, and the Domain of a Supervision Ceiling

    Sep 14, 2026Homayoon Beigi, Grace ConneelyDynamical SystemsRecurrent Neural Networks

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA · Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA · Recognition Technologies, Inc., South Salem, NY, USA

  11. A Data-Driven Distributed Control Scheme: Learning Multi-Objective Agent-Based MPC for Path-Tracking

    Sep 10, 2026Jiaming Zhong, Reza Valiollahi Mehrizi, Yash Vardhan Pant +1Autonomous DrivingMulti-Agent Control

    Mechatronic Vehicle Systems (MVS) Lab, Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, University of Waterloo, 200 University Ave West, Waterloo ON, N2L3G1 Canada · Control, Learning, and Logic (CL2) group, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, 200 University Ave West, Waterloo ON, N2L3G1 Canada

  12. Geometric Distributional Control: Learning Progress with Partial Structural Knowledge

    Sep 6, 2026Tong WuData-Driven Control

    University of Central Florida

  13. Generalization as a robust performance property of learning-enabled dynamical systems

    Aug 31, 2026Filippo FabianiData-Driven ControlGeneralization Bounds

    IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Piazza San Francesco 19, 55100, Lucca, Italy

  14. Control-Oriented Learning for Dynamic Tracking and Stability Analysis of Soft Pneumatic Actuators

    Aug 25, 2026Nithin S. Kumar, Eric J. BarthExtended Dynamic Mode DecompositionSoft Pneumatic Actuators

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN 37215

  15. Supply Chain Analytics: A Data-Driven Approach

    Aug 17, 2026Elioth SanabriaSupply Chain ManagementData-Driven Control

  16. Foundations of Reinforcement Learning and Control:Connections and New Perspectives

    Aug 3, 2026Claire Vernade, Onno Eberhard, Martha White +4RL ControlData-Driven Control

    University of Technology Nuremberg · Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen, Germany · University of Alberta and Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii) +2

  17. Koopman operator theory: fundamentals, control, and applications

    Jul 2, 2026Igor Mezić, Jorge Cortés, Karl Worthmann +2Surrogate ModelingKoopman Operator Learning

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA · Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego, USA · Optimization-based Control Group, TU Ilmenau, Germany +2

  18. PAC-Bayesian Certificates for Quadratic Closed-Loop Control

    Jun 26, 2026Domagoj HercegPAC-Bayesian Generalization BoundsData-Driven Control

    Department of Mechanical Engineering Eindhoven University of Technology The Netherlands

  19. Hessian-augmented Supervised Learning for Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman PDEs

    Jun 22, 2026Matías Gómez-Aedo, Behzad Azmi, Yuyang Huang +2Value Function EstimationPDE Solving

    Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, SW7 2AZ London, UK · Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Konstanz, Germany · RICAM and Institute of Mathematics and Scientific Computing, University of Graz, Austria

  20. FACTR 2: Learning External Force Sensing for Commodity Robot Arms Improves Policy Learning

    Jun 10, 2026Steven Oh, Jason Jingzhou Liu, Tony Tao +5Robot Imitation LearningLong-Horizon Robotic Manipulation

    Carnegie Mellon University · Waseda University

  21. Model-Based and Data-Driven Hierarchical Control and Topology Co-Design for Robust Networked Systems

    Jun 10, 2026Shirantha Welikala, Zihao Song, Hai Lin +1Dynamical SystemsRobust Control

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, School of Engineering and Science, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ 07030 · Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA

  22. Real-Time Retargeting Using Controllability Boundary for Chandrayaan-3 Lunar Landing

    May 28, 2026Suraj Kumar, Debjyoti Chakrabarti, Aditya Rallapalli +2Motion RetargetingData-Driven Control

    Controls and Digital Area, U R Rao Satellite Center, Indian Space Research Organization, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  23. L-Learning : A Lyapunov-Based Approach Leveraging Lagrangian Mechanics for Efficient and Stable Robot Tracking

    May 26, 2026Quan Quan, Hao LiRobotic ControlRobot Trajectory Tracking

    1Quan Quan and Hao Li are with School of Automation Science and Electrical Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing 100191, China

  24. Behavioral Data-Driven Optimal Trajectory Generation for Rotary Cranes

    May 14, 2026Iskandar Khemakhem, Manuel Zobel, Johannes Schüle +3Robotic ControlTrajectory Optimization

    Institute for Adaptive Mechanical Systems, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, 70569, Germany · Institute for System Dynamics, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, 70563, Germany · Department of Mechanical Engineering, Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi, 441-8580, Japan +1

  25. In-Context Learning for Data-Driven Censored Inventory Control

    May 14, 2026Sohom Mukherjee, Anh-Duy Pham, Richard Pibernik +1Inventory ControlBandit Convex Optimization

    Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg · National University of Singapore Zaragoza Logistics Center

  26. Learning Direct Control Policies with Flow Matching for Autonomous Driving

    May 14, 2026Marcello Ceresini, Federico Pirazzoli, Andrea Bertogalli +5Flow MatchingEnd-to-End Autonomous Driving

    1Università degli Studi di Parma · 2Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna · 3VisLab (an Ambarella Inc. company)

  27. Addressing Terminal Constraints in Data-Driven Demand Response Scheduling

    May 14, 2026Maximilian Bloor, Martha White, Ehecatl Antonio del Rio Chanona +1Hierarchical RLCredit Assignment in RL

    Sargent Centre for Process Systems Engineering, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK · Department of Computer Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada · Department of Computing, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK

  28. Dynamic Controlled Variables Based Dynamic Self-Optimizing Control

    May 7, 2026Chenchen Zhou, Shaoqi Wang, Hongxin Su +3Data-Driven ControlFeedback Control

    College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, P.R. China · Institute of Zhejiang University-Quzhou, Quzhou, Zhejiang Province, P.R. China

  29. Neural Network-Assisted Model Predictive Control for Implicit Balancing

    Apr 2, 2026Seyed Soroush Karimi Madahi, Kenneth Bruninx, Bert Claessens +1Model Predictive ControlData-Driven Control

    IDLab, Ghent University – imec, Ghent, Belgium · Faculty of Technology, Policy & Management, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands · Beebop.ai, Belgium

  30. Passive iFIR filters for data-driven velocity control in robotics

    Mar 31, 2026Yi Zhang, Zixing Wang, Fulvio ForniRobotic ControlData-Driven Control

    Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK.