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A safety governor for learning explicit MPC controllers from data

Systems and Control 2025-07-29 v1 Systems and Control Methodology

Abstract

We tackle neural networks (NNs) to approximate model predictive control (MPC) laws. We propose a novel learning-based explicit MPC structure, which is reformulated into a dual-mode scheme over maximal constrained feasible set. The scheme ensuring the learning-based explicit MPC reduces to linear feedback control while entering the neighborhood of origin. We construct a safety governor to ensure that learning-based explicit MPC satisfies all the state and input constraints. Compare to the existing approach, our approach is computationally easier to implement even in high-dimensional system. The proof of recursive feasibility for the safety governor is given. Our approach is demonstrated on numerical examples.

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@article{arxiv.2507.19531,
  title  = {A safety governor for learning explicit MPC controllers from data},
  author = {Anjie Mao and Zheming Wang and Hao Gu and Bo Chen and Li Yu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.19531},
  year   = {2025}
}
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