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We study tracking control for nonlinear systems with known relative degree and stable internal dynamics by the recently introduced technique of Funnel MPC. The objective is to achieve the evolution of the tracking error within a prescribed…

In this paper we propose a robust Model Predictive Control where a Gated Recurrent Unit network model is used to learn the input-output dynamic of the system under control. Robust satisfaction of input and output constraints and recursive…

Model Predictive Control (MPC) is a successful control methodology, which is applied to increasingly complex systems. However, real-time feasibility of MPC can be challenging for complex systems, certainly when an (extremely) large number…

This paper presents a novel reference governor scheme for overshoot mitigation in tracking control systems. Our proposed scheme, referred to as the Reference Governor with Dynamic Constraint (RG-DC), recasts the overshoot mitigation problem…

This paper is concerned with the design of a linear control law for linear systems with stationary additive disturbances. The objective is to find a state feedback gain that minimizes a quadratic stage cost function, while observing chance…

Neural Networks (NNs) can provide major empirical performance improvements for closed-loop systems, but they also introduce challenges in formally analyzing those systems' safety properties. In particular, this work focuses on estimating…

This paper presents a computationally-efficient method for evaluating the feasibility of Quadratic Programs (QPs) for online constrained control. Based on the duality principle, we first show that the feasibility of a QP can be determined…

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…

The applications of reference governors to systems with unmeasured set-bounded disturbances can lead to conservative solutions. This conservatism can be reduced by estimating the disturbance from output measurements and canceling it in the…

This paper presents a trajectory generation method that optimizes a quadratic cost functional with respect to linear system dynamics and to linear input and state constraints. The method is based on continuous-time flatness-based trajectory…

This paper develops a data-driven learning framework for approximating the feasible region and invariant set of a nonlinear system under the nonlinear Model Predictive Control (MPC) scheme. The developed approach is based on the feasibility…

Mixed-integer optimization problems arise in a wide range of control applications. Benders decomposition is a widely used algorithm for solving such problems by decomposing them into a mixed-integer master problem and a continuous…

This paper proposes a control architecture integrating adaptation with Lyapunov-based Reference Governors (LRGs) to ensure state constraint satisfaction for first-order systems with parametric uncertainties. Adaptation combined with LRGs…

In spite of the recent interest and advances in linear controllability of complex networks, controlling nonlinear network dynamics remains to be an outstanding problem. We develop an experimentally feasible control framework for nonlinear…

Neural Networks (NNs) can provide major empirical performance improvements for robotic systems, but they also introduce challenges in formally analyzing those systems' safety properties. In particular, this work focuses on estimating the…

This paper investigates one-step backward reachability for uncertain max-plus linear systems with additive disturbances. Given a target set, the problem is to compute the set of states from which there exists an admissible control input…

In this paper, we address the problem of designing stochastic model predictive control (MPC) schemes for linear systems affected by unbounded disturbances. The contribution of the paper is twofold. First, motivated by the difficulty of…

For constrained linear systems with bounded disturbances and parametric uncertainty, we propose a robust adaptive model predictive control strategy with online parameter estimation. Constraints enforcing persistently exciting closed loop…

A robust model predictive control scheme for a class of constrained norm-bounded uncertain discrete-time linear systems is developed under the hypothesis that only partial state measurements are available for feedback. Off-line calculations…

Augmenting the input of algorithms with predictions is an algorithm design paradigm that suggests leveraging a (possibly erroneous) prediction to improve worst-case performance guarantees when the prediction is perfect (consistency), while…