Robust Semi-passive Velocity Field Control with Boundedness Guarantees for Safe Interaction between Mechanical Systems and Physical Environment
arXiv:2608.30193
2026
Dynamics
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The paper offers a nonstandard semi-passivity mechanism: enforce a passive energy inequality only when system energy exceeds a prescribed threshold, while allowing controlled non-passive behavior below that threshold. A smooth time-varying transition avoids discontinuities from hard switching, and the resulting storage energy remains bounded under disturbances. The direct neural-network transfer is an energy-gated optimizer that permits aggressive updates near a useful basin but activates dissipative damping when momentum or update energy becomes excessive. This produces a measurable energy boundary and a predicted bounded-energy plateau.
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2026
Treat optimization as a forced dynamical system whose state is the parameter velocity and whose input is the minibatch gradient. Permit ordinary momentum updates below a target energy, but smoothly increase damping when optimizer energy exceeds that target. This preserves less-conservative behavior in low-energy regions while imposing dissipative dynamics during potentially divergent excursions.
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