Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a system and a method for controlling an operation of a machine including at least one actuator. The method comprises obtaining a time period of an operation of the at least one actuator, collecting an energy level of the at least one actuator, and determining one or more hyperparameters of a time bound function such that a value of the time bound function is greater than or equal to the time period of the operation of the at least one actuator. The method further comprises solving an optimal control problem optimizing a cost function of the operation of the at least one actuator using an adaptive gradient descent method that is initialized with the collected energy level and a constant defined based on the one or more hyperparameters and controlling the at least one actuator based on a solution of the optimal control problem.

Abstract: A system for performing a task according to a reference trajectory is provided. The system includes at least one actuator configured to change a state of the system according to a control input, and a memory configured to store a model of dynamics of the system including a known part of the dynamics of the system as a function of the state of the system and the control input to the system and an unknown part of the dynamics of the system as a function of the state of the system, wherein the unknown part of the dynamics of the system is represented by parameters of a probabilistic distribution including a first-order moment and a second-order moment of the probabilistic distribution. The system also includes a control system configured to recursively determine and submit the control input to the actuator to change the state of the system.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method of training a neural network model for controlling an operation of a system represented by partial differential equations (PDEs). The method comprises collecting digital representation of time series data indicative of measurements of the operation of the system at different instances of time. The method further comprises training the neural network model having an autoencoder architecture including an encoder to encode the digital representation into a latent space, a linear predictor to propagate the digital representation into the latent space, and a decoder to decode the digital representation to minimize a loss function including a prediction error between outputs of the neural network model decoding measurements of the operation at an instant of time and measurements of the operation collected at a subsequent instance of time, and a residual factor of the PDE having eigenvalues dependent on parameters of the linear predictor.

Abstract: A system for parameter tuning for robotic manipulators is provided. The system includes an interface configured to receive a task specification, a plurality of physical parameters, and a plurality of control parameters, wherein the interface is configured to communicate with a real-world robot via a robot controller. The system further includes a memory to store computer-executable programs including a robot simulation module, a robot controller, and an auto-tuning module a processor, in connection with the memory. In this case, the processor is configured to acquire, in communication with the real-world robot, state values of the real-world robot, state values of the robot simulation module, simultaneously update, by use of a predetermined optimization algorithm with the auto-tuning module, an estimate of one or more of the physical, and said control parameters, and store the updated parameters.

Abstract: An auto-tuning controller for improving a performance of a power amplifier system is provided. The controller includes an interface including input terminals and output terminals, the interface being configured to acquire input signal conditions of power amplifiers (PAs), a training circuit including a processor and a memory running and storing a Digital Doherty amplifier (DDA) controller (module), a DPD controller (module) and a DDA-DPD neural network (NN).

Abstract: A computer-implemented method is provided for training multi RL agent networks generating device parameters of circuits.

Abstract: An autotuning controller is provided for improving power efficiency and linearity of digital power amplifiers (DPAs). The controller includes an interface including input and output terminals connected to the DPAs, the interface being configured to acquire input signals and output signals, a digital pre-distortion (DPD)-DPA adaptive controller including a processor and a memory running and storing a DPD algorithm, an efficiency enhancement method and a learning cost function.

Abstract: An apparatus for controlling an operation of a system is provided. The apparatus comprises an input interface configured to receive a state trajectory of the system, and a memory configured to store a model of dynamics of the system including a combination of at least one differential equation and a closure model. The apparatus further comprises a processor configured to update the closure model using reinforcement learning (RL) having a value function reducing a difference between a shape of the received state trajectory and a shape of state trajectory estimated using the model with the updated closure model, and determine a control command based on the model with the updated closure model. Further, the apparatus comprises an output interface configured to transmit the control command to an actuator of the system to control the operation of the system.

Abstract: A system a method for controlling an operation of HVAC system is provided. The system comprises at least one processor; and memory having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the system to receive data indicative of the operation of the HVAC system and optimize a cost function to reduce a difference between a full thermal state of the conditioned environment simulated from the received data based on a physical model of airflow including a partial differential equation (PDE) and a thermal state of the conditioned environment reconstructed by an observer using a reduced order model (ROM) of airflow including an ordinary differential equation (ODE) from values of the full thermal state at a set of locations, wherein optimization of the cost function is a multivariable optimization of a structure of the observer and a structure of the ODE.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method using a reinforcement learning trained reduced order estimator (RL-trained ROE) and a closure model is provided for controlling a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system including actuators. The method uses a processor coupled with a memory storing instructions implementing the method, wherein the instructions, when executed by the processor, carry out at steps of the method, includes acquiring setpoints of the HVAC system from a user input and measurement data from sensors arranged in the HVAC system, computing a high-dimensional state estimate using the measurement data and an estimate of reduced-order state from the RL-trained ROE, determining a controller with respect to the setpoints by using the RL-trained ROE, generating control commands based on the controller, and transmitting the control commands to the actuators of HVAC system via an output interface.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method is provided. The computer-implemented includes a data-driven model and a robust closure model stored in a memory by using a processor for controlling a system. The computer-implemented method includes steps of acquiring sensor signals from at least one sensor of the system via an interface, computing a state of the system based on the sensor signals, determining a gain of the robust closure model based on the state of the system, reproducing a state of the system based on the determined gain, estimating a physics-based model of the system by combining the data-driven model and the robust closure model, and generating control commands by mapping the state of the system using the estimated physics-based model.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method is provided for generating device parameters of circuits using a pretrained reinforcement learning (RL) agent composed of a graph neural network (GNN) and a fully connected neural network (FCNN). The method is performed by steps including acquiring inputs with respect to a set of desired specifications or one desired specification of a circuit, device parameters, a fixed topology of the circuit and providing the inputs to the RL agent. The desired circuit description includes a graph modeling the topology of the circuit and device parameters of the circuit, and the desired specifications include gain, bandwidth, phase margin, power consumption, output power and power efficiency.

Abstract: A controller for controlling a system having uncertainties in its dynamics subject to constraints on an operation of the system is provided. The controller is configured to acquire historical data of the operation of the system, and determine, for the system in a current state, a current control action transitioning a state of the system from the current state to a next state. The current control action is determined according to a robust and constraint Markov decision process (RCMDP) that uses the historical data to optimize a performance cost of the operation of the system subject to an optimization of a safety cost enforcing the constraints on the operation, wherein a state transition for each of state and action pairs in the performance cost and the safety cost is represented by a plurality of state transitions capturing the uncertainties of the dynamics of the system.

Abstract: A controller for controlling a system is provided.

Abstract: A computer-implemented method is provided. The computer-implemented includes a data-driven model and a robust closure model stored in a memory by using a processor for controlling a system. The computer-implemented method includes steps of acquiring sensor signals from at least one sensor of the system via an interface, computing a state of the system based on the sensor signals, determining a gain of the robust closure model based on the state of the system, reproducing a state of the system based on the determined gain, estimating a physics-based model of the system by combining the data-driven model and the robust closure model, and generating control commands by mapping the state of the system using the estimated physics-based model.

Abstract: A system a method for controlling an operation of HVAC system is provided. The system comprises at least one processor; and memory having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the system to receive data indicative of the operation of the HVAC system and optimize a cost function to reduce a difference between a full thermal state of the conditioned environment simulated from the received data based on a physical model of airflow including a partial differential equation (PDE) and a thermal state of the conditioned environment reconstructed by an observer using a reduced order model (ROM) of airflow including an ordinary differential equation (ODE) from values of the full thermal state at a set of locations, wherein optimization of the cost function is a multivariable optimization of a structure of the observer and a structure of the ODE.

Abstract: A system for parameter tuning for robotic manipulators is provided. The system includes an interface configured to receive a task specification, a plurality of physical parameters, and a plurality of control parameters, wherein the interface is configured to communicate with a real-world robot via a robot controller. The system further includes a memory to store computer-executable programs including a robot simulation module, a robot controller, and an auto-tuning module a processor, in connection with the memory. In this case, the processor is configured to acquire, in communication with the real-world robot, state values of the real-world robot, state values of the robot simulation module, simultaneously update, by use of a predetermined optimization algorithm with the auto-tuning module, an estimate of one or more of the physical, and said control parameters, and store the updated parameters.

Abstract: A system for performing a task according to a reference trajectory is provided. The system includes at least one actuator configured to change a state of the system according to a control input, and a memory configured to store a model of dynamics of the system including a known part of the dynamics of the system as a function of the state of the system and the control input to the system and an unknown part of the dynamics of the system as a function of the state of the system, wherein the unknown part of the dynamics of the system is represented by parameters of a probabilistic distribution including a first-order moment and a second-order moment of the probabilistic distribution. The system also includes a control system configured to recursively determine and submit the control input to the actuator to change the state of the system.

Abstract: An autotuning controller is provided for improving power efficiency and linearity of digital power amplifiers (DPAs). The controller includes an interface including input and output terminals connected to the DPAs, the interface being configured to acquire input signals and output signals, a digital pre-distortion (DPD)-DPA adaptive controller including a processor and a memory running and storing a DPD algorithm, an efficiency enhancement method and a learning cost function.

Abstract: An auto-tuning controller for improving a performance of a power amplifier system is provided. The controller includes an interface including input terminals and output terminals, the interface being configured to acquire input signal conditions of power amplifiers (PAs), a training circuit including a processor and a memory running and storing a Digital Doherty amplifier (DDA) controller (module), a DPD controller (module) and a DDA-DPD neural network (NN).