Reservoir Predictive Path Integral Control for Unknown Nonlinear Dynamics

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Main Authors: Inoue, Daisuke, Matsumori, Tadayoshi, Tanaka, Gouhei, Ito, Yuji
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Published: 2025
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author Inoue, Daisuke
Matsumori, Tadayoshi
Tanaka, Gouhei
Ito, Yuji
author_facet Inoue, Daisuke
Matsumori, Tadayoshi
Tanaka, Gouhei
Ito, Yuji
contents Neural networks have found extensive application in data-driven control of nonlinear dynamical systems, yet fast online identification and control of unknown dynamics remain central challenges. To meet these challenges, this paper integrates echo-state networks (ESNs)--reservoir computing models implemented with recurrent neural networks--and model predictive path integral (MPPI) control--sampling-based variants of model predictive control. The proposed reservoir predictive path integral (RPPI) enables fast learning of nonlinear dynamics with ESNs and exploits the learned nonlinearities directly in MPPI control computation without linearization approximations. This framework is further extended to uncertainty-aware RPPI (URPPI), which achieves robust stochastic control by treating ESN output weights as random variables and minimizing an expected cost over their distribution to account for identification errors. Experiments on controlling a Duffing oscillator and a four-tank system demonstrate that URPPI improves control performance, reducing control costs by up to 60% compared to traditional quadratic programming-based model predictive control methods.
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spellingShingle Reservoir Predictive Path Integral Control for Unknown Nonlinear Dynamics
Inoue, Daisuke
Matsumori, Tadayoshi
Tanaka, Gouhei
Ito, Yuji
Systems and Control
Machine Learning
Optimization and Control
Chaotic Dynamics
Neural networks have found extensive application in data-driven control of nonlinear dynamical systems, yet fast online identification and control of unknown dynamics remain central challenges. To meet these challenges, this paper integrates echo-state networks (ESNs)--reservoir computing models implemented with recurrent neural networks--and model predictive path integral (MPPI) control--sampling-based variants of model predictive control. The proposed reservoir predictive path integral (RPPI) enables fast learning of nonlinear dynamics with ESNs and exploits the learned nonlinearities directly in MPPI control computation without linearization approximations. This framework is further extended to uncertainty-aware RPPI (URPPI), which achieves robust stochastic control by treating ESN output weights as random variables and minimizing an expected cost over their distribution to account for identification errors. Experiments on controlling a Duffing oscillator and a four-tank system demonstrate that URPPI improves control performance, reducing control costs by up to 60% compared to traditional quadratic programming-based model predictive control methods.
title Reservoir Predictive Path Integral Control for Unknown Nonlinear Dynamics
topic Systems and Control
Machine Learning
Optimization and Control
Chaotic Dynamics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03839