Publications and preprints from the Solaris Lab across optimization, control, scientific machine learning, and dynamical systems.
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Theme 01
Learning to Optimize
Learning-based methods that accelerate constrained, mixed-integer, and decision-focused optimization while preserving feasibility and physical requirements.
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1 publication
2026IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy
Accelerating Underground Pumped Hydro Energy Storage Scheduling with Decision-Focused Learning
A decision-focused learning framework that guides recursive linearization for fast, high-quality day-ahead scheduling of underground pumped hydro energy storage.
AuthorsHonghui Zheng, Pietro Favaro, Yury Dvorkin, Ján Drgoňa
Data-driven control policies for constrained nonlinear and distributed systems, trained through differentiable predictive control and operator learning.
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6 publications
2026IEEE CDC 2026
Learning to Control PDEs with Differentiable Predictive Control and Time-Integrated Neural Operators
An end-to-end framework combining Time-Integrated DeepONets with offline, self-supervised optimization of PDE control policies.
AuthorsDibakar Roy Sarkar, Ján Drgoňa, Somdatta Goswami
Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Differentiable Predictive Control for Underground Pumped Hydro Energy Storage Systems
A self-supervised mixed-integer control policy for nonlinear pumped-hydro scheduling, using differentiable simulation, Transformers, and Gumbel-Softmax decisions.
AuthorsHonghui Zheng, Ján Boldocký, Yury Dvorkin, Ján Drgoňa
Safe Receding Horizon Mixed-Integer Differentiable Predictive Control for Degradation-Aware Battery Dispatch
A receding-horizon neural battery-dispatch controller with differentiable degradation physics and a safety filter that guarantees recursive feasibility.
AuthorsEshagh Safarzadeh Ravajiri, Ján Drgoňa, Benjamin F. Hobbs
Koopman-Based Linear MPC for Safe Control using Control Barrier Functions
A Koopman lifting framework that turns nonlinear safety-constrained MPC with discrete-time control barrier functions into an efficient quadratic program.
AuthorsShuo Liu, Liang Wu, Dawei Zhang, Ján Drgoňa, Calin A. Belta
Scientific Machine Learning and System Identification
Physics-informed, differentiable, and structure-aware models for learning reliable representations of complex dynamical systems.
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3 publications
2026IEEE CDC 2026
SCORE: Statistical Certification of Regions of Attraction via Extreme Value Theory
A scalable statistical framework combining stochastic sampling and extreme value theory to certify regions of attraction in high-dimensional nonlinear systems.
Safe Physics-Informed Machine Learning for Dynamics and Control
A tutorial overview of physics-informed machine learning methods for safe modeling and control of dynamical systems.
AuthorsJán Drgoňa, Truong X. Nghiem, Thomas Beckers, Mahyar Fazlyab, Enrique Mallada, Colin N. Jones, Draguna L. Vrabie, Steven L. Brunton, Rolf Findeisen