Sampling-Horizon Neural Operator Predictors for Nonlinear Control under Delayed Inputs

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Hauptverfasser: Bhan, Luke, Quawas, Peter, Krstic, Miroslav, Shi, Yuanyuan
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author Bhan, Luke
Quawas, Peter
Krstic, Miroslav
Shi, Yuanyuan
author_facet Bhan, Luke
Quawas, Peter
Krstic, Miroslav
Shi, Yuanyuan
contents Modern control systems frequently operate under input delays and sampled state measurements. A common delay-compensation strategy is predictor feedback; however, practical implementations require solving an implicit ODE online, resulting in intractable computational cost. Moreover, predictor formulations typically assume continuously available state measurements, whereas in practice measurements may be sampled, irregular, or temporarily missing due to hardware faults. In this work, we develop two neural-operator predictor-feedback designs for nonlinear systems with delayed inputs and sampled measurements. In the first design, we introduce a sampling-horizon prediction operator that maps the current measurement and input history to the predicted state trajectory over the next sampling interval. In the second design, the neural operator approximates only the delay-compensating predictor, which is then composed with the closed-loop flow between measurements. The first approach requires uniform sampling but yields residual bounds that scale directly with the operator approximation error. In contrast, the second accommodates non-uniform, but bounded sampling schedules at the cost of amplified approximation error, revealing a practical tradeoff between sampling flexibility and approximation sensitivity for the control engineer. For both schemes, we establish semi-global practical stability with explicit neural operator error-dependent bounds. Numerical experiments on a 6-link nonlinear robotic manipulator demonstrate accurate tracking and substantial computational speedup of 25$\times$ over a baseline approach.
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spellingShingle Sampling-Horizon Neural Operator Predictors for Nonlinear Control under Delayed Inputs
Bhan, Luke
Quawas, Peter
Krstic, Miroslav
Shi, Yuanyuan
Systems and Control
Machine Learning
Optimization and Control
Modern control systems frequently operate under input delays and sampled state measurements. A common delay-compensation strategy is predictor feedback; however, practical implementations require solving an implicit ODE online, resulting in intractable computational cost. Moreover, predictor formulations typically assume continuously available state measurements, whereas in practice measurements may be sampled, irregular, or temporarily missing due to hardware faults. In this work, we develop two neural-operator predictor-feedback designs for nonlinear systems with delayed inputs and sampled measurements. In the first design, we introduce a sampling-horizon prediction operator that maps the current measurement and input history to the predicted state trajectory over the next sampling interval. In the second design, the neural operator approximates only the delay-compensating predictor, which is then composed with the closed-loop flow between measurements. The first approach requires uniform sampling but yields residual bounds that scale directly with the operator approximation error. In contrast, the second accommodates non-uniform, but bounded sampling schedules at the cost of amplified approximation error, revealing a practical tradeoff between sampling flexibility and approximation sensitivity for the control engineer. For both schemes, we establish semi-global practical stability with explicit neural operator error-dependent bounds. Numerical experiments on a 6-link nonlinear robotic manipulator demonstrate accurate tracking and substantial computational speedup of 25$\times$ over a baseline approach.
title Sampling-Horizon Neural Operator Predictors for Nonlinear Control under Delayed Inputs
topic Systems and Control
Machine Learning
Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.29119