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We propose a stochastic MPC scheme using an optimization over the initial state for the predicted trajectory. Considering linear discrete-time systems under unbounded additive stochastic disturbances subject to chance constraints, we use…
Model predictive control (MPC) of hybrid dynamical systems is challenging because the associated optimization problem is nonsmooth and the resulting feedback law is discontinuous. This paper develops real-time MPC algorithms for nonlinear…
We develop a tracking model predictive control (MPC) scheme for nonlinear systems using the linearized dynamics at the current state as a prediction model. Under reasonable assumptions on the linearized dynamics, we prove that the proposed…
This paper proposes a novel online data-driven adaptive control for unknown linear time-varying systems. Initialized with an empirical feedback gain, the algorithm periodically updates this gain based on the data collected over a short time…
In this paper, we propose a novel model predictive control (MPC) framework for output tracking that deals with partially unknown constraints. The MPC scheme optimizes over a learning and a backup trajectory. The learning trajectory aims to…
We consider synthesis of control policies that maximize the probability of satisfying given temporal logic specifications in unknown, stochastic environments. We model the interaction between the system and its environment as a Markov…
In this paper, we propose a novel data-driven predictive control approach for systems subject to time-domain constraints. The approach combines the strengths of H-infinity control for rejecting disturbances and MPC for handling constraints.…
This paper develops a method to learn optimal controls from data for bilinear systems without a priori knowledge of the system dynamics. Given an unknown bilinear system, we first characterize when the available data is suitable to solve…
In this paper, we consider a distributed model predictive control (MPC) algorithm for coordinated path-following. Relying on the time-critical cooperative path-following framework, which decouples space and time and reduces the coordination…
Controlling continuous-time dynamical systems is generally a two step process: first, identify or model the system dynamics with differential equations, then, minimize the control objectives to achieve optimal control function and optimal…
Motivated by the application of using model predictive control (MPC) for motion planning of autonomous mobile robots, a form of output tracking MPC for non-holonomic systems and with non-convex constraints is studied. Although the…
A centralized model predictive controller (MPC), which is unaware of local uncertainties, for an affine discrete time nonlinear system is presented. The local uncertainties are assumed to be matched, bounded and structured. In order to…
This paper proposes a novel Kernelized Data-Driven Predictive Control (KDPC) scheme for robust, offset-free tracking of nonlinear systems. Our computationally efficient hybrid approach separates the prediction: (1) kernel ridge regression…
In this paper, we present a data-driven model predictive control (MPC) scheme that is capable of stabilizing unknown linear time-invariant systems under the influence of process disturbances. To this end, Willems' lemma is used to predict…
Approximate dynamic programming has been investigated and used as a method to approximately solve optimal regulation problems. However, the extension of this technique to optimal tracking problems for continuous time nonlinear systems has…
We present a data-driven optimal control framework that can be viewed as a generalization of the path integral (PI) control approach. We find iterative feedback control laws without parameterization based on probabilistic representation of…
This paper presents a continuous-time optimal control framework for the generation of reference trajectories in driving scenarios with uncertainty. A previous work presented a discrete-time stochastic generator for autonomous vehicles;…
We present an information theoretic approach to stochastic optimal control problems that can be used to derive general sampling based optimization schemes. This new mathematical method is used to develop a sampling based model predictive…
Distributed model predictive control (MPC) has been proven a successful method in regulating the operation of large-scale networks of constrained dynamical systems. This paper is concerned with cooperative distributed MPC in which the…
This work presents proximally optimal predictive control algorithm, which is essentially a model-based lateral controller for steered autonomous vehicles that selects an optimal steering command within the neighborhood of previous steering…