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This comment presents the results of using chance-constrained model predictive control (MPC) to solve a one-horizon benchmark collision avoidance problem.

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Hai Zhu , Javier Alonso-Mora

We study the problem of distributed online control of networked systems with time-varying cost functions and disturbances, where each node only has local information of the states and forecasts of the costs and disturbances. We develop a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-18 Eric Xu , Soummya Kar , Guannan Qu

This paper is about a real-time model predictive control (MPC) algorithm for a particular class of model based controllers, whose objective consists of a nominal tracking objective and an additional learning objective. Here, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-09 Xuhui Feng , Boris Houska

A typical bottleneck of model predictive control algorithms is the computational burden in order to compute the receding horizon feedback law which is predominantly determined by the length of the prediction horizon. Based on a relaxed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-01-16 Jürgen Pannek , Karl Worthmann

This paper presents a time-optimal Model Predictive Control (MPC) scheme for linear discrete-time systems subject to multiplicative uncertainties represented by interval matrices. To render the uncertainty propagation computationally…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-26 Renato Quartullo , Andrea Garulli , Mirko Leomanni

A finite horizon optimal tracking problem is considered for linear dynamical systems subject to parametric uncertainties in the state-space matrices and exogenous disturbances. A suboptimal solution is proposed using a model predictive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-08 Anilkumar Parsi , Andrea Iannelli , Roy S. Smith

This work investigates the challenge of ensuring safety guarantees in the presence of uncontrollable agents, whose behaviors are stochastic and depend on both their own and the system's states. We present a neural model predictive control…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Shuqi Wang , Mingyang Feng , Yu Chen , Yue Gao , Xiang Yin

This paper addresses the design of an event-triggered, data-based, and performance-oriented adaption method for model predictive control (MPC). The performance of such a strategy strongly depends on the accuracy of the prediction model,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-13 Samuel Mallick , Laura Boca de de Giuli , Alessio La Bella , Azita Dabiri , Bart De Schutter , Riccardo Scattolini

In this paper, we propose an online learning-based predictive control (LPC) approach designed for nonlinear systems that lack explicit system dynamics. Unlike traditional model predictive control (MPC) algorithms that rely on known system…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-17 Yuanqing Zhang , Huanshui Zhang

Robust model predictive control (MPC) is a well-known control technique for model-based control with constraints and uncertainties. In classic robust tube-based MPC approaches, an open-loop control sequence is computed via periodically…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-13 Xinglong Zhang , Jiahang Liu , Xin Xu , Shuyou Yu , Hong Chen

Model Predictive Control (MPC) is often tuned by trial and error. When a baseline linear controller exists that is already well tuned in the absence of constraints and MPC is introduced to enforce them, one would like to avoid altering the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-01 Mario Zanon , Alberto Bemporad

In this paper we present a framework for risk-sensitive model predictive control (MPC) of linear systems affected by stochastic multiplicative uncertainty. Our key innovation is to consider a time-consistent, dynamic risk evaluation of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-26 Sumeet Singh , Yin-Lam Chow , Anirudha Majumdar , Marco Pavone

We consider the problem of simultaneous control and parameter estimation when the model is available only as a differentiable physics simulator. We propose a receding-horizon control framework in which a model predictive control (MPC)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Alan Williams , Alp Sunol

This paper proposes a Model Predictive Control (MPC) algorithm for target tracking amongst static and dynamic obstacles. Our main contribution lies in improving the computational tractability and reliability of the underlying non-convex…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Houman Masnavi , Vivek Adajania , Karl Kruusamae , Arun Kumar Singh

A novel robust nonlinear model predictive control strategy is proposed for systems with nonlinear dynamics and convex state and control constraints. Using a sequential convex approximation approach and a difference of convex functions…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-28 Yana Lishkova , Mark Cannon

Traditional online Model Predictive Control (MPC) methods often suffer from excessive computational complexity, limiting their practical deployment. Explicit MPC mitigates online computational load by pre-computing control policies offline;…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Sichao Wu , Jiang Wu , Xingyu Cao , Fawang Zhang , Guangyuan Yu , Junjie Zhao , Yue Qu , Fei Ma , Jingliang Duan

We present a nonlinear model predictive control (MPC) scheme for tracking of dynamic target signals. The scheme combines stabilization and dynamic trajectory planning in one layer, thus ensuring constraint satisfaction irrespective of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-21 Johannes Köhler , Matthias A. Müller , Frank Allgöwer

RBM-MPC is a computationally efficient variant of Model Predictive Control (MPC) in which the Random Batch Method (RBM) is used to speed up the finite-horizon optimal control problems at each iteration. In this paper, stability and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-08 Daniël Veldman , Alexandra Borkowski , Enrique Zuazua

We show how a posteriori goal oriented error estimation can be used to efficiently solve the subproblems occurring in a Model Predictive Control (MPC) algorithm. In MPC, only an initial part of a computed solution is implemented as a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-02 Lars Grüne , Manuel Schaller , Anton Schiela

Common approaches for direct model predictive control (MPC) for current reference tracking in power electronics suffer from the high computational complexity encountered when solving integer optimal control problems over long prediction…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-06-28 Bartolomeo Stellato , Tobias Geyer , Paul J. Goulart