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. Predictor-Based Output-Feedback Control of Linear Systems with Time-Varying Input and Measurement Delays via Neural-Approximated Prediction Horizons

    Mar 31, 2026Luke Bhan, Miroslav Krstic, Yuanyuan ShiFeedback ControlDynamical Systems

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0411, USA · Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0411, USA

  2. Dynamic Lookahead Distance via Reinforcement Learning-Based Pure Pursuit for Autonomous Racing

    Mar 30, 2026Mohamed Elgouhary, Amr S. El-WakeelAutonomous RacingRL Control

    Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA.

  3. A Deep Reinforcement Learning Framework for Closed-loop Guidance of Fish Schools via Virtual Agents

    Mar 30, 2026Takato Shibayama, Hiroaki KawashimaFeedback ControlReinforcement Learning

    Graduate School of Information Science, University of Hyogo, Kobe, Japan

  4. Safety Guardrails in the Sky: Realizing Control Barrier Functions on the VISTA F-16 Jet

    Mar 29, 2026Andrew W. Singletary, Max H. Cohen, Tamas G. Molnar +1Safety-Critical ControlRuntime Assurance

  5. Separation is Optimal for LQR under Intermittent Feedback

    Mar 29, 2026Abdullah Y. Etcibasi, C. Emre Koksal, Eylem EkiciSequential Decision MakingStochastic Optimal Control

    The Ohio State University

  6. MetaTune: Adjoint-based Meta-tuning via Robotic Differentiable Dynamics

    Mar 28, 2026Xiexin Peng, Bingheng Wang, Tao Zhang +2Robust ControlFeedback Control

    School of Artificial Intelligence and Automation, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117583, Singapore · Wuhan Zhenyou Technology Co., Ltd., Wuhan 430205, China

  7. Path-Following Guidance for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle with Bounded Lateral Acceleration

    Mar 28, 2026Vinay Kathiriya, Saurabh Kumar, Shashi Ranjan KumarUAV NavigationRobot Trajectory Tracking

    Intelligent Systems and Control Lab, Department of Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai- 400076, India

  8. Optimal Prioritized Dissipation and Closed-Form Damping Limitation under Actuator Constraints for Haptic Interfaces

    Mar 27, 2026Camilla Celli, Andrea Bini, Valerio Novelli +3Haptic FeedbackPassivity-Based Control

    Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, IIM Institute, PERCRO Laboratory, Pisa, Italy · Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Department of Excellence in Robotics and AI, Pisa, Italy

  9. Engagement-Zone-Aware Input-Constrained Guidance for Safe Target Interception in Contested Environments

    Mar 24, 2026Praveen Kumar Ranjan, Abhinav Sinha, Yongcan CaoDistributed ControlSafety-Critical Control

    Unmanned Systems Lab, Department of Electrical Engineering, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, 78249 · Guidance, Autonomy, Learning, and Control for Intelligent Systems (GALACxIS) Lab, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, University of Cincinnati, OH 45221, USA

  10. Stability-Preserving Online Adaptation of Neural Closed-loop Maps

    Mar 23, 2026Danilo Saccani, Luca Furieri, Giancarlo Ferrari-TrecateNeural Network ControlFeedback Control

    Institute of Mechanical Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland. · Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

  11. Conformal Koopman for Embedded Nonlinear Control with Statistical Robustness: Theory and Real-World Validation

    Mar 23, 2026Koki Hirano, Hiroyasu TsukamotoRobust ControlFeedback Control

    Department of Aerospace Engineering, The Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801

  12. From Language Models to Control Policies: Search, Selection, and Verification

    Mar 20, 2026Nima H. Siboni, Seyedreza Kiamousavi, Vahid Rostami +1Automated Heuristic DesignLLM-Based Program Synthesis

    Juna.ai, Kastanienallee 32, 10435 Berlin · Institute of Metal Forming, RWTH Aachen, Intzestr. 10, 52072 Aachen

  13. Learning Sampled-data Control for Swarms via MeanFlow

    Mar 20, 2026Anqi Dong, Yongxin Chen, Karl H. Johansson +1Multi-Agent ControlData-Driven Control

    Department of Decision and Control Systems, Department of Mathematics, and the Digital Future, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, SE-114 28 Stockholm, Sweden · Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA · Department of Decision and Control Systems and the Digital Future, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Lindstedtsvägen 25, SE-114 28 Stockholm, Sweden +1

  14. GustPilot: A Hierarchical DRL-INDI Framework for Wind-Resilient Quadrotor Navigation

    Mar 20, 2026Amir Atef Habel, Roohan Ahmed Khan, Fawad Mehboob +2UAV NavigationQuadrotor Control

    Intelligent Space Robotics Laboratory, Center for Digital Engineering, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia.

  15. Mixed-Integer vs. Continuous Model Predictive Control for Binary Thrusters: A Comparative Study

    Mar 20, 2026Franek Stark, Jakob Middelberg, Shubham VyasModel Predictive ControlFeedback Control

    Robotics Innovation Center, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence GmbH, Bremen, Germany · University of Bremen, Germany

  16. Lightweight Model Predictive Control for Spacecraft Rendezvous Attitude Synchronization

    Mar 19, 2026Peter Stadler, Alexander Meinert, Niklas Baldauf +1Spacecraft Attitude DeterminationModel Predictive Control

    Space Applications Group, e:fs TechHub GmbH, 85080 Gaimersheim, Germany · Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Ingolstadt University of Applied Sciences, Germany

  17. Fundamental Limits for Sensor-Based Control via the Gibbs Variational Principle

    Mar 19, 2026Vincent Pacelli, Evangelos A. TheodorouFeedback ControlPartially Observable Markov Decision Processes

    Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA, 30308

  18. LineMaster Pro: A Low-Cost Intelligent Line Following Robot with PID Control and Ultrasonic Obstacle Avoidance for Educational Robotics

    Mar 14, 2026Jeni Shahi, Abhishek Shah, A. S. M. Ahsanul Sarkar AkibRobot NavigationRobotics Education

    Department of Nursing (BSc), University of Nicosia, Nicosia, Cyprus · Central Department of Social Work, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal · Department of Robotics, Robo Tech Valley, Dhaka, Bangladesh

  19. Reinforcement Learning for Elliptical Cylinder Motion Control Tasks

    Mar 13, 2026Pawel Marczewski, Paulina Superczynska, Jakub Bernat +1RL ControlFeedback Control

    Institute of Computing Science Poznan University of Technology Poznan, 61-138 · Institute of Automatic Control and Robotics Poznan University of Technology Poznan, 61-138

  20. Beyond Test-Time Memory: State-Space Optimal Control for LLM Reasoning

    Mar 10, 2026Peihao Wang, Shan Yang, Xijun Wang +8LLM ReasoningLanguage Model-Based Control

    Amazon · The University of Texas at Austin · Georgia Institute of Technology +2

  21. The FABRIC Strategy for Verifying Neural Feedback Systems

    Mar 9, 2026Samuel I. Akinwande, Sydney M. Katz, Mykel J. Kochenderfer +1Reachability AnalysisNeural Network Verification

    Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University, Stanford, USA · Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Stanford, USA

  22. Nonlinear Performance Degradation of Vision-Based Teleoperation under Network Latency

    Mar 6, 2026Aws Khalil, Jaerock KwonRobot TeleoperationVision-Based Robot Control

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Michigan - Dearborn, Dearborn, MI, USA.

  23. Safe Consensus of Cooperative Manipulation with Hierarchical Event-Triggered Control Barrier Functions

    Mar 6, 2026Simiao Zhuang, Bingkun Huang, Zewen YangControl Barrier FunctionsMulti-Agent Control

    Munich Institute of Robotics and Machine Intelligence (MIRMI), Technical University of Munich (TUM), 80992 Munich, Germany

  24. Learning to Tune Pure Pursuit in Autonomous Racing: Joint Lookahead and Steering-Gain Control with PPO

    Feb 20, 2026Mohamed Elgouhary, Amr S. El-WakeelAutonomous RacingAdaptive Control

    The authors are with the Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA

  25. Distributed Virtual Model Control for Scalable Human-Robot Collaboration in Shared Workspace

    Feb 19, 2026Yi Zhang, Omar Faris, Chapa Sirithunge +3Human-Robot CollaborationRobot Safety

    Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1PZ, United Kingdom

  26. Continual Uncertainty Learning for Robust Control of Nonlinear Systems with Multiple Heterogeneous Uncertainties

    Feb 19, 2026Heisei Yonezawa, Ansei Yonezawa, Itsuro KajiwaraRobust ControlRobust RL

    Division of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Hokkaido University N13, W8, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-8628, Japan · Faculty of Information Science and Technology, Hokkaido University Kita 14, Nishi 9, Kita-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido 060-0814, Japan

  27. Autonomous Block Assembly for Boom Cranes with Passive Joint Dynamics: Integrated Vision MPC Control

    Feb 17, 2026Gerald Ebmer, Minh Nhat Vu, Tobias Glück +1Robotic ControlRobotic Construction

    Automation & Control Institute (ACIN), TU Wien, Gusshausstrasse 27-29, 1040 Wien, Austria · Center for Vision, Automation & Control, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Giefinggasse 4, 1210 Vienna, Austria

  28. Hybrid Model Predictive Control with Physics-Informed Neural Network for Satellite Attitude Control

    Feb 17, 2026Carlo Cena, Mauro Martini, Marcello ChiabergeSpacecraft Attitude DeterminationModel Predictive Control

    Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy

  29. Lyapunov-Based PI-Like Control for Robust Trajectory Tracking of a Four-Wheel Independently Driven and Steered Robot: Design and Experimental Validation

    Feb 17, 2026Branimir Ćaran, Vladimir Milić, Marko Švaco +1PID ControlRobot Trajectory Tracking

    Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Zagreb, Zagreb HR-10000, Croatia · Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb 10000, Croatia

  30. TriphiBot: A Triphibious Robot Combining FOC-based Propulsion with Eccentric Design

    Feb 1, 2026Xiangyu Li, Tiancheng Lai, Mingwei Lai +6Aerial RoboticsNonlinear MPC

    State Key Laboratory of Industrial Control Technology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China · Huzhou Institute of Zhejiang University, Huzhou 313000, China · Hainan Red Tower Cigarette Co., Ltd., Hainan 571100, China