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Data-driven controllers design is an important research problem, in particular when data is corrupted by the noise. In this paper, we propose a data-driven min-max model predictive control (MPC) scheme using noisy input-state data for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-31 Yifan Xie , Julian Berberich , Frank Allgöwer

This paper presents a model predictive control (MPC)-based online real-time adaptive control scheme for emergency voltage control in power systems. Despite tremendous success in various applications, real-time implementation of MPC for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-08 Ramij Raja Hossain , Ratnesh Kumar

Binary on/off thrusters are commonly used for spacecraft attitude and position control during proximity operations. However, their discrete nature poses challenges for conventional continuous control methods. The control of these discrete…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-15 Franek Stark , Jakob Middelberg , Shubham Vyas

Despite decades of research, existing navigation systems still face real-world challenges when deployed in the wild, e.g., in cluttered home environments or in human-occupied public spaces. To address this, we present a new class of…

Hybrid dynamical systems are viewed as the most complicated systems with continuous and event-based behaviors. Since traditional controllers cannot handle these systems, some newly-developed controllers have been published in recent decades…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-05 Ali Taghavian , Ali Safi , Esmaeel Khanmirza

This paper introduces a continuous-time constrained nonlinear control scheme which implements a model predictive control strategy as a continuous-time dynamic system. The approach is based on the idea that the solution of the optimal…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-09-20 Marco M. Nicotra , Dominic Liao-McPherson , Ilya V. Kolmanovsky

Modern, torque-controlled service robots can regulate contact forces when interacting with their environment. Model Predictive Control (MPC) is a powerful method to solve the underlying control problem, allowing to plan for whole-body…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Maria Vittoria Minniti , Ruben Grandia , Kevin Fäh , Farbod Farshidian , Marco Hutter

The global trend toward renewable power generation has drawn great attention to hydrogen Fuel Cells (FCs), which have a wide variety of applications, from utility power stations to laptops. The Multi-stack Fuel Cell System (MFCS), which is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-31 Yiqiao Xu , Xiaoyu Guo , Zhen Dong , Zhengtao Ding , Alessandra Parisio

In this paper, a novel full form dynamic linearization (FFDL) data-driven model-free adaptive predictive control (MFAPC) method is proposed for a class of discrete-time single-input single-output nonlinear systems. The novelty of MFAPC is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-04 Feilong Zhang

This paper proposes an adaptive stochastic Model Predictive Control (MPC) strategy for stable linear time invariant systems in the presence of bounded disturbances. We consider multi-input multi-output systems that can be expressed by a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Monimoy Bujarbaruah , Xiaojing Zhang , Francesco Borrelli

Model predictive control (MPC) is an optimal control strategy where control input calculation is based on minimizing the predicted tracking error over a finite horizon that moves with time. This strategy has an advantage over conventional…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-28 Joseph Chai , Eran Medagoda , Erkan Kayacan

Many practical applications of optimal control are subject to real-time computational constraints. When applying model predictive control (MPC) in these settings, respecting timing constraints is achieved by limiting the number of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-16 Anusha Srikanthan , Aren Karapetyan , Vijay Kumar , Nikolai Matni

For the application of MPC design in on-line regulation or tracking control problems, several studies have attempted to develop an accurate model, and realize adequate uncertainty description of linear or non-linear plants of the processes.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-03 Yuanqiang Zhou , Dewei Li , Yugeng Xi , Zhongxue Gan

Integrating electric vehicles (EVs) into the power grid can revolutionize energy management strategies, offering both challenges and opportunities for creating a more sustainable and resilient grid. In this context, model predictive control…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-21 Cesar Diaz-Londono , Stavros Orfanoudakis , Pedro P. Vergara , Peter Palensky , Fredy Ruiz , Giambattista Gruosso

This paper presents the development of a non-linear model predictive controller (MPC) for controlling variable speed hydropower (VSHP) plants. The MPC coordinates the turbine controller with the virtual synchronous generator (VSG) control…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-04 Tor Inge Reigstad , Kjetil Uhlen

Input current estimation is indispensable in the sensorless control algorithms for the problem of power factor compensation (PFC) of an AC-DC boost converter. The system estimator design is challenged by the bilinear form dynamics and…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Mehdi Tavan , Kamel Sabahi

Switched systems in which the manipulated control action is the time-depending switching signal describe many engineering problems, mainly related to biomedical applications. In such a context, to control the system means to select an…

Model Predictive Control (MPC) has become a popular framework in embedded control for high-performance autonomous systems. However, to achieve good control performance using MPC, an accurate dynamics model is key. To maintain real-time…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Tim Salzmann , Elia Kaufmann , Jon Arrizabalaga , Marco Pavone , Davide Scaramuzza , Markus Ryll

Sampling-based Model Predictive Control (MPC) is a flexible control framework that can reason about non-smooth dynamics and cost functions. Recently, significant work has focused on the use of machine learning to improve the performance of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Jacob Sacks , Byron Boots

This letter considers cascaded model predictive control (MPC) as a computationally lightweight method for controlling a tandem-rotor helicopter. A traditional single MPC structure is split into separate outer and inner-loops. The outer-loop…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-30 Faraaz Ahmed , Ludwik Sobiesiak , James Richard Forbes