Feedback Control

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Feedback control studies how systems use measurements of their behavior to continually adjust actions, helping robots, vehicles, buildings, and industrial processes track goals and reject disturbances. Established approaches include PID and LQR, model-predictive control, and nonlinear designs based on Lyapunov functions, passivity, and control barrier functions; newer work adds reinforcement learning, learned dynamics, and Koopman models. These methods are tested in settings such as robotic manipulation and flight, HVAC and energy systems, vehicle guidance, and networked or multi-agent control, often with delays, partial sensing, actuator limits, and changing dynamics. A central challenge is gaining the adaptability of learning-based control without losing stability, safety, and verifiable performance, motivating hybrid designs with runtime safety filters and formal analysis.

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  1. Model-Free Output Feedback Stabilization via Policy Gradient Methods

    Jan 27, 2026Ankang Zhang, Ming Chi, Xiaoling Wang +1Dynamical SystemsPartially Observable RL

    School of Artificial Intelligence and Automation, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China · College of Automation, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing 210023, China

  2. Tracing Energy Flow: Learning Tactile-based Grasping Force Control to Reduce Slippage in Dynamic Object Interaction

    Dec 24, 2025Cheng-Yu Kuo, Hirofumi Shin, Takamitsu MatsubaraRobotic GraspingContact-Rich Robotic Manipulation

    Graduated School of Science and Technology, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara 630-0192, Japan · Honda R&D, Ltd., Saitama 351-0114, Japan

  3. Expanding the Workspace of Electromagnetic Navigation Systems Using Dynamic Feedback for Single- and Multi-agent Control

    Nov 23, 2025Jasan Zughaibi, Denis von Arx, Maurus Derungs +5Multi-Agent ControlFeedback Control

    Multi-Scale Robotics Lab, ETH Zurich, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland · Learning and Dynamical Systems Group, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, 72076 Tübingen, Germany

  4. Stability Boundaries and Motor Performance in Delayed Robot-Mediated Dyadic Interactions

    Oct 16, 2025Mingtian Du, Suhas Raghavendra Kulkarni, Simone Kager +2Robot TeleoperationFeedback Control

    Robotics Research Centre, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798 · Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Technology Nuremberg, Germany 90461

  5. Distributed Event-Triggered Distance-Based Formation Control for Multi-Agent Systems

    Sep 15, 2025Evangelos Psomiadis, Panagiotis TsiotrasMulti-Robot Formation ControlMulti-Agent Control

    D. Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30332-0150, USA

  6. First Experimental Demonstration of Natural Hovering Extremum Seeking: A New Paradigm in Flapping Flight Physics

    Aug 28, 2025Simone Martini, Rohan Palanikumar, Ahmed A. Elgohary +1Aerial RoboticsFeedback Control

    Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45221, USA

  7. Periodic robust robotic rock chop via virtual model control

    Aug 4, 2025Yi Zhang, Fumiya Iida, Fulvio ForniContact-Rich Robotic ManipulationRobust Control

    University of Cambridge, United Kingdom · University of Tokyo, Japan

  8. Douglas-Rachford Splitting for Group-Sparse Feedback Linear-Quadratic Control

    Jul 26, 2025Lechen Feng, Xun Li, Yuan-Hua NiDistributed OptimizationDistributed Control

    Department of Applied Mathematics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China · College of Artificial Intelligence, Nankai University, Tianjin, China

  9. Differentiable Physics-Informed Adaptive Koopman Control for Stable Flight under Unknown Disturbances

    Jun 10, 2025Ao Jin, Qiujin Liang, Tao Zhang +2Robot Trajectory TrackingRobust Control

    Research Center for Intelligent Robotics, School of Astronautics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China · Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100080, China

  10. A Three-Stage Offline SDRE-Based Control Framework for Human Motion Reproduction on a Suspended Bipedal Robot

    Jun 5, 2025Ping-Kong Huang, Chien-Wu Lan, Chin-Tien Wu +1Robotic ControlRobot Trajectory Tracking

    Department of Applied Mathematics, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 30010, Taiwan · Department of Electrical Engineering, National Central University, Taoyuan City 320317, Taiwan

  11. Learning-Based Progressive Barrier Control for Robot Manipulators with Initial Errors Outside Prescribed Tracking Bounds

    Mar 18, 2025Hamed Rahimi Nohooji, Danial Zafaranchizadeh Moghaddam, Abolfazl Zaraki +1Robotic ControlRobot Trajectory Tracking

    Automation and Robotics Research Group, Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust, University of Luxembourg, 1855 Luxembourg, Luxembourg · School of Physics, Engineering and Computer Science (SPECS), and Robotics Research Group of the University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, AL10 9AB, United Kingdom

  12. Passivity-Centric Safe Reinforcement Learning for Contact-Rich Robotic Tasks

    Mar 1, 2025Heng Zhang, Gokhan Solak, Sebastian Hjorth +1Robotic ControlContact-Rich Robotic Manipulation

    HRI2 Lab, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy · Ph.D. program of national interest in Robotics and Intelligent Machines (DRIM) and University of Genova, Genoa, Italy

  13. Sample Complexity of Linear Quadratic Regulator Without Initial Stability

    Feb 20, 2025Amirreza Neshaei Moghaddam, Alex Olshevsky, Bahman GharesifardRL ControlSample Complexity

  14. Observability-Aware Control for Quadrotor Formation Flight with Range-only Measurement

    Nov 6, 2024H S Helson Go, Ching Lok Chong, Longhao Qian +1Multi-Robot Formation ControlCooperative Localization

    Institute for Aerospace Studies, University of Toronto, 4925 Dufferin St., North York, Ontario, Canada, M3H 5T6 · Oxford University, OCIAM

  15. N-dimensional Convex Obstacle Avoidance using Hybrid Feedback Control (Extended version)

    Mar 17, 2024Mayur Sawant, Ilia Polushin, Abdelhamid TayebiCollision AvoidanceSafe Robot Navigation

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, ON P7B 5E1, Canada · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Western University, London, ON N6A 3K7, Canada