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Model predictive control (MPC) has become the most widely used advanced control method in process industry. In many cases, forecasts of the disturbances are available, e.g., predicted renewable power generation based on weather forecast.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-08 Ryan McCloy , Lai Wei , Jie Bao

Model predictive control (MPC) is a powerful control method that allows to directly include state and input constraints into the controller design. However, errors in the model, e.g., caused by unknown disturbances, can lead to constraint…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-08 Felix Brändle , Frank Allgöwer

This note extends a recently proposed algorithm for model identification and robust MPC of asymptotically stable, linear time-invariant systems subject to process and measurement disturbances. Independent output predictors for different…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-02 Enrico Terzi , Lorenzo Fagiano , Marcello Farina , Riccardo Scattolini

In Model Predictive Control (MPC), discrepancies between the actual system and the predictive model can lead to substantial tracking errors and significantly degrade performance and reliability. While such discrepancies can be alleviated…

We propose a simple and computationally efficient approach for designing a robust Model Predictive Controller (MPC) for constrained uncertain linear systems. The uncertainty is modeled as an additive disturbance and an additive error on the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-24 Monimoy Bujarbaruah , Ugo Rosolia , Yvonne R. Stürz , Francesco Borrelli

Inexact methods for model predictive control (MPC), such as real-time iterative schemes or time-distributed optimization, alleviate the computational burden of exact MPC by providing suboptimal solutions. While the asymptotic stability of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-21 Aren Karapetyan , Efe C. Balta , Andrea Iannelli , John Lygeros

We propose a model predictive control (MPC) scheme with sampled-data input which ensures output-reference tracking within prescribed error bounds for relative-degree-one systems. Hereby, we explicitly deduce bounds on the required maximal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-28 Dario Dennstädt , Lukas Lanza , Karl Worthmann

The main objective of tracking control is to steer the tracking error, that is the difference between the reference and the output, to zero while the plant's operation limits are satisfied. This requires that some assumptions on the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-02 Daniel Limon , Antonio Ferramosca , Ignacio Alvarado , Teodoro Alamo

To provide robustness of distributed model predictive control (DMPC), this work proposes a robust DMPC formulation for discrete-time linear systems subject to unknown-but-bounded disturbances. Taking advantage of the structure of certain…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-10 Ye Wang , Chris Manzie

This paper proposes an iterative distributionally robust model predictive control (MPC) scheme to solve a risk-constrained infinite-horizon optimal control problem. In each iteration, the algorithm generates a trajectory from the starting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-23 Alireza Zolanvari , Ashish Cherukuri

Model mismatch and process noise are two frequently occurring phenomena that can drastically affect the performance of model predictive control (MPC) in practical applications. We propose a principled way to tune the cost function and the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-24 Riccardo Zuliani , Efe C. Balta , John Lygeros

We propose a robust nonlinear model predictive control (MPC) scheme for trajectory-tracking control of autonomous vehicles at the limits of handling on non-planar road surfaces. We derive the dynamics from first principles and selectively…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-22 Joscha F. Bongard , Georg Jank , Simon Sagmeister , Boris Lohmann

Robust optimal or min-max model predictive control (MPC) approaches aim to guarantee constraint satisfaction over a known, bounded uncertainty set while minimizing a worst-case performance bound. Traditionally, these methods compute a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-04 J. Wehbeh , E. C. Kerrigan

Various efforts have been devoted to developing stabilizing distributed Model Predictive Control (MPC) schemes for tracking piecewise constant references. In these schemes, terminal sets are usually computed offline and used in the MPC…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-29 Ahmed Aboudonia , Annika Eichler , Francesco Cordiano , Goran Banjac , John Lygeros

Robots and automated systems are increasingly being introduced to unknown and dynamic environments where they are required to handle disturbances, unmodeled dynamics, and parametric uncertainties. Robust and adaptive control strategies are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-08-03 Karime Pereida , Angela Schoellig

We provide a method to design adaptive controllers for nonlinear systems using model predictive control (MPC). By combining a certainty-equivalent MPC formulation with least-mean-square parameter adaptation, we obtain an adaptive controller…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-19 Johannes Köhler

The main benefit of model predictive control (MPC) is its ability to steer the system to a given reference without violating the constraints while minimizing some objective. Furthermore, a suitably designed MPC controller guarantees…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-25 Pablo Krupa , Daniel Limon , Teodoro Alamo

We propose an adaptive Model Predictive Safety Certification (MPSC) scheme for learning-based control of linear systems with bounded disturbances and uncertain parameters where the true parameters are contained within an a priori known set…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-30 Alexandre Didier , Kim P. Wabersich , Melanie N. Zeilinger

In this paper we present a Learning Model Predictive Control (LMPC) strategy for linear and nonlinear time optimal control problems. Our work builds on existing LMPC methodologies and it guarantees finite time convergence properties for the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-06 Ugo Rosolia , Francesco Borrelli

In this paper, we present a data-driven distributed model predictive control (MPC) scheme to stabilise the origin of dynamically coupled discrete-time linear systems subject to decoupled input constraints. The local optimisation problems…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-14 Matthias Köhler , Julian Berberich , Matthias A. Müller , Frank Allgöwer