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Model Predictive Control (MPC) is a powerful control strategy; however, its reliance on online optimization poses significant challenges for implementation on systems with limited computational resources. One possible approach to address…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-19 Hassan Jafari Ozoumchelooei , Mehdi Hosseinzadeh

The intricate and multi-stage task in dynamic public spaces like luggage trolley collection in airports presents both a promising opportunity and an ongoing challenge for automated service robots. Previous research has primarily focused on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Peijia Xie , Bingyi Xia , Anjun Hu , Ziqi Zhao , Lingxiao Meng , Zhirui Sun , Xuheng Gao , Jiankun Wang , Max Q. -H. Meng

This chapter will focus on the multiobjective formulation of an optimization problem and highlight the assets of a multiobjective Tabu implementation for such problems. An illustration of a specific Multiobjective Tabu heuristic (referred…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-07-23 Katia Jaffres-Runser , Jean-Marie Gorce , Cristina Comaniciu

We consider the problem of using multiple agents to harvest data from a collection of sensor nodes (targets) scattered across a two-dimensional environment. These targets transmit their data to the agents that move in the space above them,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-25 Shili Wu , Yancheng Zhu , Aniruddha Datta , Sean B. Andersson

One of the challenges in Synthetic Biology is to design circuits with increasing levels of complexity. While circuits in Biology are complex and subject to natural tradeoffs, most synthetic circuits are simple in terms of the number of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-03-03 Irene Otero-Muras , Julio R. Banga

This paper presents a multiobjective Home Care Scheduling Problem (from now on multiobjective HCSP) related to a home care company for elderly and dependent people located in the North of Spain. In particular, a biobjective problem is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-06 Isabel Méndez-Fernández , Silvia Lorenzo-Freire , Ángel Manuel González-Rueda

Planning problems are hard, motion planning, for example, isPSPACE-hard. Such problems are even more difficult in the presence of uncertainty. Although, Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) provide a formal framework for such problems, finding…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-01-14 Carlos E. Guestrin , Dirk Ormoneit

The compactness of routes in distribution plans is a criterion that has not been sufficiently explored in the literature related to logistics distribution but has shown to have a significant impact on the practical implementation of routing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-02 Diego Rossit , Adrián Toncovich

We present new methods for solving a broad class of bound-constrained nonsmooth composite minimization problems. These methods are specially designed for objectives that are some known mapping of outputs from a computationally expensive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-11 Jeffrey Larson , Matt Menickelly

The framework of mixed observable Markov decision processes (MOMDP) models many robotic domains in which some state variables are fully observable while others are not. In this work, we identify a significant subclass of MOMDPs defined by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Hai Nguyen , Zhihan Yang , Andrea Baisero , Xiao Ma , Robert Platt , Christopher Amato

In planning problems, it is often challenging to fully model the desired specifications. In particular, in human-robot interaction, such difficulty may arise due to human's preferences that are either private or complex to model.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Mahsa Ghasemi , Evan Scope Crafts , Bo Zhao , Ufuk Topcu

Multi-Objective Learning Model Predictive Control is a novel data-driven control scheme which improves a linear system's closed-loop performance with respect to several convex control objectives over iterations of a repeated task. At each…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-21 Siddharth H. Nair , Charlott Vallon , Francesco Borrelli

The article presents a study on the biobjective inventory routing problem. Contrary to most previous research, the problem is treated as a true multi-objective optimization problem, with the goal of identifying Pareto-optimal solutions. Due…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-09-15 Martin Josef Geiger , Marc Sevaux

This paper presents a new robustness concept for uncertain multi-objective optimization problems. More precisely, in the paper the so-called recovery-to-efficiency robustness concept is proposed and investigated. Several approaches for…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-23 El-Ghazali Talbi , Raca Todosijevic

Portfolio optimization has been a major topic of research in finance, as it has a significant impact on investment profit. In this paper, we investigate the problem of data uncertainty in convex multi-objective portfolio optimization. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-11 Amin Mohazab Rahimzadeh , Alireza Saranj

Safe and efficient assistive planning for visually impaired scenarios remains challenging, since existing methods struggle with multi-objective optimization, generalization, and interpretability. In response, this paper proposes a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Yuting Zeng , Zhiwen Zheng , Jingya Wang , You Zhou , JiaLing Xiao , Yongbin Yu , Manping Fan , Bo Gong , Liyong Ren

Dynamic control of a soft-body robot to deliver complex behaviors with low-dimensional actuation inputs is challenging. In this paper, we present a computational approach to automatically generate versatile, underactuated control policies…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Yitong Deng , Yaorui Zhang , Xingzhe He , Shuqi Yang , Yunjin Tong , Michael Zhang , Daniel DiPietro , Bo Zhu

Multiobjective design optimization problems require multiobjective optimization techniques to solve, and it is often very challenging to obtain high-quality Pareto fronts accurately. In this paper, the recently developed flower pollination…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-08-25 Xin-She Yang , M. Karamanoglu , X. S. He

This paper proposes a new robust optimization (RO) formulation namely the RO under objective functional uncertainty (ObRO). The ObRO adopts a min-max structure where the inner problem finds the worst-case objective function in a continuous…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Yue Song , Yuxi Lu , Gang Li , Kairui Feng , Qi Liu

We propose a model reference adaptive controller (MRAC) for uncertain linear time-invariant (LTI) plants with user-defined state and input constraints in the presence of unmatched bounded disturbances. Unlike popular optimization-based…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-01 Poulomee Ghosh , Shubhendu Bhasin