Year: 2025
Type: preprint
Abstract: Embedding non-restrictive prior knowledge, such as energy conservation laws, into learning methods is a key motive to construct physically consistent dynamics models from limited data, relevant for, e.g., model-based control. Recent work incorporates Hamiltonian dynamics into Gaussian Processes (GPs) to obtain uncertainty-quantifying, energy-consistent models, but these methods rely on -- rarely available -- velocity or momentum data. In this paper, we study dynamics learning using Hamiltonian GPs and focus on learning solely from input-output data, without relying on velocity or momentum measurements. Adopting a non-conservative formulation, energy exchange with the environment, e.g., through external forces or dissipation, can be captured. We provide a fully Bayesian scheme for estimating probability densities of unknown hidden states, GP hyperparameters, as well as structural hyperparameters, such as damping coefficients. The proposed method is evaluated in a nonlinear simulation case study and compared to a state-of-the-art approach that relies on momentum measurements.
Source: arXiv (Cornell University)
Authors: Ewering, Jan-Hendrik, Herrmann, Robin E., Wahlström, Niklas, Schön, Thomas B., Seel, Thomas
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7108747271
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