Sciweavers

AMC
1999
128views more  AMC 1999»
13 years 10 months ago
An elementary result in the stability theory of time-invariant nonlinear discrete dynamical systems
The stability of the equilibria of time-invariant nonlinear dynamical systems with discrete time scale is investigated. We present an elementary proof showing that in the case of ...
Weiye Li, Ferenc Szidarovszky
SIGPRO
2008
136views more  SIGPRO 2008»
13 years 10 months ago
Estimation of slowly varying parameters in nonlinear systems via symbolic dynamic filtering
This paper introduces a novel method for real-time estimation of slowly varying parameters in nonlinear dynamical systems. The core concept is built upon the principles of symboli...
Venkatesh Rajagopalan, Subhadeep Chakraborty, Asok...
ASC
2007
13 years 10 months ago
An approximate stability analysis of nonlinear systems described by Universal Learning Networks
Stability is one of the most important subjects in control systems. As for the stability of nonlinear dynamical systems, Lyapunov’s direct method and linearized stability analys...
Kotaro Hirasawa, Shingo Mabu, Shinji Eto, Jinglu H...
NIPS
1998
14 years 1 days ago
Learning Nonlinear Dynamical Systems Using an EM Algorithm
The Expectation Maximization EM algorithm is an iterative procedure for maximum likelihood parameter estimation from data sets with missing or hidden variables 2 . It has been app...
Zoubin Ghahramani, Sam T. Roweis
ESANN
1998
14 years 2 days ago
Lazy learning for control design
This paper presents two local methods for the control of discrete-time unknown nonlinear dynamical systems, when only a limited amount of input-output data is available. The modeli...
Gianluca Bontempi, Mauro Birattari, Hugues Bersini
UAI
2004
14 years 2 days ago
Dynamical Systems Trees
We propose dynamical systems trees (DSTs) as a flexible model for describing multiple processes that interact via a hierarchy of aggregating processes. DSTs extend nonlinear dynam...
Andrew Howard, Tony Jebara
ICINCO
2004
153views Robotics» more  ICINCO 2004»
14 years 3 days ago
Iterative Linear Quadratic Regulator Design for Nonlinear Biological Movement Systems
This paper presents an Iterative Linear Quadratic Regulator (ILQR) method for locally-optimal feedback control of nonlinear dynamical systems. The method is applied to a musculo-s...
Weiwei Li, Emanuel Todorov
AAAI
2006
14 years 3 days ago
Mixtures of Predictive Linear Gaussian Models for Nonlinear, Stochastic Dynamical Systems
The Predictive Linear Gaussian model (or PLG) improves upon traditional linear dynamical system models by using a predictive representation of state, which makes consistent parame...
David Wingate, Satinder P. Singh
EUROS
2008
177views Robotics» more  EUROS 2008»
14 years 14 days ago
Eyes-Neck Coordination Using Chaos
Abstract. The increasing complexity of humanoid robots and their expected performance in real dynamic environments demand an equally complex, autonomous and dynamic solution. Our a...
Boris Duran, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Giulio Sandini
STOC
1995
ACM
126views Algorithms» more  STOC 1995»
14 years 2 months ago
A computational view of population genetics
This paper contributes tothe study of nonlinear dynamical systems from a computational perspective. These systems are inherently more powerful than their linear counterparts (such...
Yuval Rabani, Yuri Rabinovich, Alistair Sinclair