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This paper presents a novel algorithm, based on model predictive control (MPC), for the optimal guidance of a launch vehicle upper stage. The proposed strategy not only maximizes the performance of the vehicle and its robustness to external…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-14 Boris Benedikter , Alessandro Zavoli , Guido Colasurdo , Simone Pizzurro , Enrico Cavallini

Stochastic Model Predictive Control has proved to be an efficient method to plan trajectories in uncertain environments, e.g., for autonomous vehicles. Chance constraints ensure that the probability of collision is bounded by a predefined…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-17 Tim Brüdigam , Fulvio di Luzio , Lucia Pallottino , Dirk Wollherr , Marion Leibold

Autonomous vehicles are the upcoming solution to most transportation problems such as safety, comfort and efficiency. The steering control is one of the main important tasks in achieving autonomous driving. Model predictive control (MPC) is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Yassine Kebbati , Vicenç Puig , Naima Ait-Oufroukh , Vincent Vigneron , Dalil Ichalal

The rapid expansion of mega-constellations in low Earth orbits has posed significant challenges to space traffic management, necessitating periodic inspections of satellites to ensure the sustainability of the space environment when…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 An-Yi Huang , Hong-Xin Shen , Zhao Li , Cong Sun , Chao Sheng , Zheng-Zhong Kuai

A control optimization approach is presented for a chaser spacecraft tasked with maintaining proximity to a target space object while avoiding collisions. The target object trajectory is provided numerically to account for both passive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Saif R. Kazi , Harsha Nagarajan , Hassan Hijazi , Przemek Wozniak

The recent advancement in vehicular networking technology provides novel solutions for designing intelligent and sustainable vehicle motion controllers. This work addresses a car-following task, where the feedback linearisation method is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Sheng Yu , Xiao Pan , Anastasis Georgiou , Boli Chen , Imad M. Jaimoukha , Simos A. Evangelou

This paper presents an optimization-based collision avoidance trajectory generation method for autonomous driving in free-space environments, with enhanced robustness, driving comfort and efficiency. Starting from the hybrid…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Runxin He , Jinyun Zhou , Shu Jiang , Yu Wang , Jiaming Tao , Shiyu Song , Jiangtao Hu , Jinghao Miao , Qi Luo

Co-optimization of both vehicle speed and gear position via model predictive control (MPC) has been shown to offer benefits for fuel-efficient autonomous driving. However, optimizing both the vehicle's continuous dynamics and discrete gear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-29 Samuel Mallick , Gianpietro Battocletti , Qizhang Dong , Azita Dabiri , Bart De Schutter

Model Predictive Control (MPC) is a powerful technique to control nonlinear, multi-input multi-output systems subject to input and state constraints. It is now a standard tool for trajectory tracking control of automated vehicles. As such…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-20 Georg Schildbach , Jasper Pflughaupt

To address the problem of combined heat and power economic emission dispatch (CHPEED), a two-stage approach is proposed by combining multi-objective optimization (MOO) with integrated decision making (IDM). First, a practical CHPEED model…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-22 Yang Li , Jinlong Wang , Dongbo Zhao , Guoqing Li , Chen Chen

Model-based policy optimization often struggles with inaccurate system dynamics models, leading to suboptimal closed-loop performance. This challenge is especially evident in Model Predictive Control (MPC) policies, which rely on the model…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Riccardo Zuliani , Efe C. Balta , John Lygeros

A methodology is presented for the differential drag control of a large fleet of propulsion-less satellites deployed in the same orbit. The controller places satellites into a constellation with specified angular offsets and zero-relative…

In current Medium Voltage DC (MVDC) Shipboard Power Systems (SPSs), multiple sources exist to supply power to a common dc bus. Conventionally, the power management of such systems is performed by controlling Power Generation Modules (PGMs)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-24 Mehrzad Mohammadi Bijaieh , Satish Vedula , Olugbenga Moses Anubi

Given the cost and critical functions of satellite constellations, ensuring mission longevity and safe decommissioning is essential for space sustainability. This article presents a Model Predictive Control for spacecraft trajectory and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Raphael Stöckner , Pedro Roque , Maria Charitidou , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

This paper proposes a fast and accurate trajectory planning algorithm for autonomous parking. Nominally, an optimal control problem should be formulated to describe this scheme, but the dimensionality of the optimal control problem is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-02-04 Bai Li , Tankut Acarman , Qi Kong , Youmin Zhang

This paper presents a nonlinear-model based hybrid optimal control technique to compute a suboptimal power-split strategy for power/energy management in a parallel hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV). The power-split strategy is obtained as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-04 Kasemsak Uthaichana , Raymond DeCarlo , Sorin Bengea , Miloš Žefran , Steve Pekarek

Motion control is essential for all autonomous mobile robots, and even more so for spherical robots. Due to the uniqueness of the spherical robot, its motion control must not only ensure accurate tracking of the target commands, but also…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Tao Hu , Xiaoqing Guan , Yixu Wang , Yifan Liu , Bixuan Zhang , Boyu Lin , You Wang , Guang Li

We consider a spacecraft formation reconfiguration problem in the case of identical spacecraft. This introduces in the optimal reconfiguration problem a permutational degree of freedom, in addition to the choice of individual spacecraft…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Taeyoung Lee , N. Harris McClamroch , Melvin Leok

This paper proposes a detailed optimal scheduling model of an exemplar multi-energy system comprising combined cycle power plants (CCPPs), battery energy storage systems, renewable energy sources, boilers, thermal energy storage…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Ashok Krishnan , Bhagyesh V. Patil , Foo Y. S. Eddy

In this paper, we present the methodology and results for a real-time velocity trajectory optimization for a solar-powered autonomous surface vessel (ASV), where we combine indirect optimal control techniques with iterative learning. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Kavin M. Govindarajan , Devansh R Agrawal , Dimitra Panagou , Chris Vermillion