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In this paper, we address the stochastic MPC (SMPC) problem for linear systems, subject to chance state constraints and hard input constraints, under unknown noise distribution. First, we reformulate the chance state constraints as…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-05 Charis Stamouli , Anastasios Tsiamis , Manfred Morari , George J. Pappas

Spatially-coupled (SC) codes are a class of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes that have excellent performance thanks to the degrees of freedom they offer. An SC code is designed by partitioning a base matrix into components, the number…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Bade Aksoy , Doğukan Özbayrak , Ahmed Hareedy

The unit commitment problem (UC) is crucial for the operation and market mechanism of power systems. With the development of modern electricity, the scale of power systems is expanding, and solving the UC problem is also becoming more and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-04 Jiangwei Hou , Qiaozhu Zhai , Yuzhou Zhou , Xiaohong Guan

Unit Commitment (UC) is a fundamental problem in power system operations. When coupled with generation maintenance, the joint optimization problem poses significant computational challenges due to coupling constraints linking maintenance…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Paritosh Ramanan , Murat Yildirim , Nagi Gebraeel , Edmond Chow

The unit commitment with transmission constraints in the alternating-current (AC) model is a challenging mixed-integer non-linear optimisation problem. We present an approach based on decomposition of a Mixed-Integer Semidefinite…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-06-26 Claudio Gambella , Jakub Marecek , Martin Mevissen , Jose Maria Fernandez Ortega , Sara Pezic Djukic , Mustafa Pezic

In this work we solve the day-ahead unit commitment (UC) problem, by formulating it as a Markov decision process (MDP) and finding a low-cost policy for generation scheduling. We present two reinforcement learning algorithms, and devise a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Gal Dalal , Shie Mannor

We propose a novel computational method for unit commitment UC, which does not require linearized approximation and provides several orders of magnitude performance improvement over current state-of-the-art. The performance improvement is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-03-26 Shaked Regev , Eve Tsybina , Slaven Peles

Mixed Integer Linear Programming (MILP) can be considered the backbone of the modern power system optimization process, with a large application spectrum, from Unit Commitment and Optimal Transmission Switching to verifying Neural Networks…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-17 Petros Ellinas , Samuel Chevalier , Spyros Chatzivasileiadis

Day-ahead generation scheduling is typically conducted by solv-ing security-constrained unit commitment (SCUC) problem. However, with fast-growing of inverter-based resources, grid inertia has been dramatically reduced, compromising the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Mingjian Tuo , Fan Jiang , Xingpeng Li , Pascal Van Hentenryck

In this paper, we propose a combined Magnitude Saturated Adaptive Control (MSAC)-Model Predictive Control (MPC) approach to linear quadratic tracking optimal control problems with parametric uncertainties and input saturation. The proposed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-14 Sunbochen Tang , Anuradha M. Annaswamy

Security-constrained unit commitment with alternating current optimal power flow (SCUC-ACOPF) is a central problem in power grid operations that optimizes commitment and dispatch of generators under a physically accurate power transmission…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-12 Matthew Brun , Thomas Lee , Dirk Lauinger , Xin Chen , Xu Andy Sun

Solving mixed-integer optimization problems with embedded neural networks with ReLU activation functions is challenging. Big-M coefficients that arise in relaxing binary decisions related to these functions grow exponentially with the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-06 Christoph Plate , Mirko Hahn , Alexander Klimek , Caroline Ganzer , Kai Sundmacher , Sebastian Sager

Model predictive control (MPC) provides a useful means for controlling systems with constraints, but suffers from the computational burden of repeatedly solving an optimization problem in real time. Offline (explicit) solutions for MPC…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-14 Daniel Tabas , Baosen Zhang

Model Predictive Control (MPC) offers rigorous safety and performance guarantees but is computationally intensive. Approximate MPC (AMPC) aims to circumvent this drawback by learning a computationally cheaper surrogate policy. Common…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-19 Elias Milios , Kim P. Wabersich , Felix Berkel , Felix Gruber , Melanie N. Zeilinger

Robust control design for quantum unitary transformations has been recognized as a fundamental and challenging task in the development of quantum information processing due to unavoidable decoherence or operational errors in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-07 Chengzhi Wu , Bo Qi , Chunlin Chen , Daoyi Dong

Model Predictive Control (MPC) can be applied to safety-critical control problems, providing closed-loop safety and performance guarantees. Implementation of MPC controllers requires solving an optimization problem at every sampling…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-27 Nicolas Chatzikiriakos , Kim P. Wabersich , Felix Berkel , Patricia Pauli , Andrea Iannelli

This paper presents a robust adaptive learning Model Predictive Control (MPC) framework for linear systems with parametric uncertainties and additive disturbances performing iterative tasks. The approach refines the parameter estimates…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-04 Hannes Petrenz , Johannes Köhler , Francesco Borrelli

In this manuscript, we explore the application of model-free reinforcement learning in optimizing secure multiparty computation (SMPC) protocols. SMPC is a crucial tool for performing computations on private data without the need to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-10 Javad Sayyadi , Mahdi Nangir , Mahmood Mohassel Feghhi , Hamid Sayyadi

Cloud Computing (CC) is revolutionizing the way IT resources are delivered to users, allowing them to access and manage their systems with increased cost-effectiveness and simplified infrastructure. However, with the growth of CC comes a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Aptin Babaei , Parham M. Kebria , Mohsen Moradi Dalvand , Saeid Nahavandi

This paper considers how to fuse Machine Learning (ML) and optimization to solve large-scale Supply Chain Planning (SCP) optimization problems. These problems can be formulated as MIP models which feature both integer (non-binary) and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Vahid Eghbal Akhlaghi , Reza Zandehshahvar , Pascal Van Hentenryck