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Model predictive control (MPC) has been applied to many platforms in robotics and autonomous systems for its capability to predict a system's future behavior while incorporating constraints that a system may have. To enhance the performance…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Ran Tao , Sheng Cheng , Xiaofeng Wang , Shenlong Wang , Naira Hovakimyan

This note proposes a distributed model predictive control (DMPC) scheme with switched cost functions for a class of spatially interconnected systems with communication constraints. Non-iterative and parallel communication strategy is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-06 Peng Liu , Umit Ozguner

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

This paper addresses frequency regulation under operational constraints in interconnected power systems with high penetration of inverter-based renewable generation. A two-layer control architecture is proposed that combines optimized droop…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-24 Jose A. Solano-Castellanos , Hassan Haes Alhelou , Ali T. Al- Awami , Mohannad Alkhraijah , Anuradha M. Annaswamy

The cost of the power distribution infrastructures is driven by the peak power encountered in the system. Therefore, the distribution network operators consider billing consumers behind a common transformer in the function of their peak…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-01 Wenqi Cai , Hossein N. Esfahani , Arash B. Kordabad , Sébastien Gros

This paper describes a hierarchical control scheme for interconnected systems. The higher layer of the control structure is designed with robust Model Predictive Control (MPC) based on a reduced order dynamic model of the overall system and…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-03-09 Marcello Farina , Xinglong Zhang , Riccardo Scattolini

Multiphase flows frequently occur naturally and in manufactured devices. Controlling such phenomena is extremely challenging due to the strongly non-linear dynamics, rapid phase transitions, and the limited spatial and temporal resolution…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-03-27 Paolo Guida , Didier Barradas-Bautista

Rollout approaches are an effective tool to address the problem of co-designing the transmission schedule and the corresponding input values, when the controller is connected to the plant via a resource-constrained communication network.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-12 Stefan Wildhagen , Frank Allgöwer

Model Predictive Control (MPC) is effective at generating safe control strategies in constrained scenarios, at the cost of computational complexity. This is especially the case in robots that require high sampling rates and have limited…

Model predictive control (MPC) is an effective method for control of constrained systems but is susceptible to the external disturbances and modeling error often encountered in real-world applications. To address these issues, techniques…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-24 Savva Morozov , Parker C. Lusk , Brett T. Lopez , Jonathan P. How

This paper proposes a real-time model predictive control (MPC) scheme to execute multiple tasks using robots over a finite-time horizon. In industrial robotic applications, we must carefully consider multiple constraints for avoiding joint…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Jaemin Lee , Mingyo Seo , Andrew Bylard , Robert Sun , Luis Sentis

This work proposes an approach that integrates reinforcement learning and model predictive control (MPC) to solve finite-horizon optimal control problems in mixed-logical dynamical systems efficiently. Optimization-based control of such…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-15 Caio Fabio Oliveira da Silva , Azita Dabiri , Bart De Schutter

The main benefit of model predictive control (MPC) is its ability to steer the system to a given reference without violating the constraints while minimizing some objective. Furthermore, a suitably designed MPC controller guarantees…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-25 Pablo Krupa , Daniel Limon , Teodoro Alamo

This work presents a whole-year simulation study on nonlinear mixed-integer Model Predictive Control (MPC) for a complex thermal energy supply system which consists of a heat pump, stratified water storages, free cooling facilities, and a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-23 Adrian Bürger , Markus Bohlayer , Sarah Hoffmann , Angelika Altmann-Dieses , Marco Braun , Moritz Diehl

Robust optimal or min-max model predictive control (MPC) approaches aim to guarantee constraint satisfaction over a known, bounded uncertainty set while minimizing a worst-case performance bound. Traditionally, these methods compute a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-04 J. Wehbeh , E. C. Kerrigan

Periodic dynamical systems, distinguished by their repetitive behavior over time, are prevalent across various engineering disciplines. In numerous applications, particularly within industrial contexts, the implementation of model…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-13 Jose A. Borja-Conde , Juan M. Nadales , Filiberto Fele , Daniel Limon

Transformerless grid-connected solar photovoltaic (PV) systems have given rise to more research and commercial interests due to their multiple merits, e.g., low leakage current and small size. In this paper, a model-predictive-control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-07-30 Abdulrahman J. Babqi , Zhehan Yi , Di Shi , Xiaoying Zhao

Harmonic model predictive control (HMPC) is a model predictive control (MPC) formulation which displays several benefits over other MPC formulations, especially when using a small prediction horizon. These benefits, however, come at the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-11-16 Pablo Krupa , Daniel Limon , Alberto Bemporad , Teodoro Alamo

The Model Predictive Control (MPC) scheme Funnel MPC enables output tracking of smooth reference signals with prescribed error bounds for nonlinear multi-input multi-output systems with stable internal dynamics. Earlier works achieved the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Thomas Berger , Dario Dennstädt

Model Predictive Control (MPC) is an optimal control strategy suited for flood control of water resources infrastructure. Despite many studies on reservoir flood control and their theoretical contribution, optimisation methodologies have…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-01 Ja-Ho Koo , Edo Abraham , Andreja Jonoski , Dimitri P. Solomatine