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This article introduces a novel distributionally robust model predictive control (DRMPC) algorithm for a specific class of controlled dynamical systems where the disturbance multiplies the state and control variables. These classes of…
In this paper a new framework has been applied to the design of controllers which encompasses nonlinearity, hysteresis and arbitrary density functions of forward models and inverse controllers. Using mixture density networks, the…
By optimizing the predicted performance over a receding horizon, model predictive control (MPC) provides the ability to enforce state and control constraints. The present paper considers an extension of MPC for nonlinear systems that can be…
Deadbeat Robust Model Predictive Control (DRMPC) is introduced as a new approach of Robust Model Predictive Control (RMPC) for linear systems with additive disturbances. Its main idea is to completely extinguish the effect of the…
This paper proposes to decouple performance optimization and enforcement of asymptotic convergence in Model Predictive Control (MPC) so that convergence to a given terminal set is achieved independently of how much performance is optimized…
This paper proposes a real-time model predictive control (MPC) scheme to execute multiple tasks using robots over a finite-time horizon. In industrial robotic applications, we must carefully consider multiple constraints for avoiding joint…
This paper proposes a comprehensive hierarchical control framework for autonomous decision-making arising in robotics and autonomous systems. In a typical hierarchical control architecture, high-level decision making is often characterised…
Many chemical processes exhibit diverse timescale dynamics with a strong coupling between timescale sensitive variables. Model predictive control with a non-uniformly spaced optimisation horizon is an effective approach to multi-timescale…
In this paper, we present a robust distributed model predictive control (DMPC) scheme for dynamically decoupled nonlinear systems which are subject to state constraints, coupled state constraints and input constraints. In the proposed…
In this work, we propose a distributionally robust stochastic model predictive control (DR-SMPC) algorithm to address the problem of two-sided chance constrained discrete-time linear system corrupted by additive noise. The prevalent…
Generalized Polynomial Chaos (gPC) theory has been widely used for representing parametric uncertainty in a system, thanks to its ability to propagate uncertainty evolution. In an optimal control context, gPC can be combined with several…
In this paper, we revisit the computation of controlled invariant sets for linear discrete-time systems through a trajectory-based viewpoint. We begin by introducing the notion of convex feasible points, which provides a new…
Motion planning for autonomous driving must account for multi-modal uncertainty in both the intentions and trajectories of surrounding vehicles. Handling uncertainty in a worst-case manner guarantees robustness but often leads to excessive…
We propose a novel flexible-step model predictive control algorithm for unknown linear time-invariant discrete-time systems. The goal is to asymptotically stabilize the system without relying on a pre-collected dataset that describes its…
Model Predictive Control (MPC) is an optimal control strategy suited for flood control of water resources infrastructure. Despite many studies on reservoir flood control and their theoretical contribution, optimisation methodologies have…
This paper presents two stochastic model predictive control methods for linear time-invariant systems subject to unbounded additive uncertainties. The new methods are developed by formulating the chance constraints into deterministic form,…
This paper demonstrates the applicability of the safe model predictive control (SMPC) framework to autonomous driving scenarios, focusing on the design of adaptive cruise control (ACC) and automated lane-change systems. Building on the SMPC…
Based on our recent research on neural heuristic quantization systems, we propose an emulation problem consistent with the neuromimetic paradigm. This optimal quantization problem can be solved with model predictive control (MPC) by…
This paper studies the well-posedness and regularity of safe stabilizing optimization-based controllers for control-affine systems in the presence of model uncertainty. When the system dynamics contain unknown parameters, a finite set of…
Model predictive control (MPC) solves a receding-horizon optimization problem in real-time, which can be computationally demanding when there are thousands of constraints. To accelerate online computation of MPC, we utilize data to…