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ArticleNature communications2023

Model-free tracking control of complex dynamical trajectories with machine learning.

Zheng-Meng Zhai, Mohammadamin Moradi, Ling-Wei Kong, Bryan Glaz, Mulugeta Haile, Ying-Cheng Lai

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Article in Nature communications, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Zheng-Meng ZhaiSchool of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 85287, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3702-0454
Mohammadamin MoradiSchool of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 85287, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2096-6876
Ling-Wei KongSchool of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 85287, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8921-1642
Bryan GlazArmy Research Directorate, DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory, 2800 Powder Mill Road, Adelphi, MD, 20783-1138, USA.
Mulugeta HaileArmy Research Directorate, DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory, 6340 Rodman Road, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, 21005-5069, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3038-9155
Ying-Cheng LaiSchool of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 85287, USA. Ying-Cheng.Lai@asu.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0723-733X

Funding

United States Department of Defense | United States Army | U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command | Army Research Office (ARO) W911NF-21-2-0055
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nonlinear tracking control enabling a dynamical system to track a desired trajectory is fundamental to robotics, serving a wide range of civil and defense applications. In control engineering, designing tracking control requires complete knowledge of the system model and equations. We develop a model-free, machine-learning framework to control a two-arm robotic manipulator using only partially observed states, where the controller is realized by reservoir computing. Stochastic input is exploited for training, which consists of the observed partial state vector as the first and its immediate future as the second component so that the neural machine regards the latter as the future state of the former. In the testing (deployment) phase, the immediate-future component is replaced by the desired observational vector from the reference trajectory. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the control framework using a variety of periodic and chaotic signals, and establish its robustness against measurement noise, disturbances, and uncertainties.

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PMID37709780
PMCPMC10502079

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