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The performance of robots in high-level tasks depends on the quality of their lower-level controller, which requires fine-tuning. However, the intrinsically nonlinear dynamics and controllers make tuning a challenging task when it is done…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Sheng Cheng , Minkyung Kim , Lin Song , Chengyu Yang , Yiquan Jin , Shenlong Wang , Naira Hovakimyan

Optimisation-based algorithms known as Moving Horizon Estimator (MHE) have been developed through the years. This paper illustrates the implementation of the policy introduced in the companion paper submitted to the 18th IFAC Workshop on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-21 Federico Oliva , Daniele Carnevale

Existing model-based value expansion methods typically leverage a world model for value estimation with a fixed rollout horizon to assist policy learning. However, the fixed rollout with an inaccurate model has a potential to harm the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Junjie Wang , Qichao Zhang , Dongbin Zhao , Mengchen Zhao , Jianye Hao

The neural moving horizon estimator (NMHE) is a relatively new and powerful state estimator that combines the strengths of neural networks (NNs) and model-based state estimation techniques. Various approaches exist for constructing NMHEs,…

Moving horizon estimation (MHE) is a widely studied state estimation approach in several practical applications. In the MHE problem, the state estimates are obtained via the solution of an approximated nonlinear optimization problem.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-26 Tianchen Liu , Kushal Chakrabarti , Nikhil Chopra

Moving Horizon Estimation~(MHE) is essentially an optimization-based approach designed to estimate the states of dynamic systems within a moving time horizon. Traditional MHE solutions become computationally prohibitive due to the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-22 Shuting Wu , Yifei Wang , Jingzhe Wang , Apostolos I. Rikos , Xu Du

In this paper, we propose a moving horizon estimation (MHE)-based training method for feedforward neural networks (FNNs) with rectified linear unit (ReLU) activation functions to determine their ideal weights from a control-theoretic…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-29 Yi Yang , Victor G. Lopez , Matthias A. Müller

In this paper, we introduce a Gaussian process based moving horizon estimation (MHE) framework. The scheme is based on offline collected data and offline hyperparameter optimization. In particular, compared to standard MHE schemes, we…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-16 Tobias M. Wolff , Victor G. Lopez , Matthias A. Müller

This study presents a novel state estimation approach integrating Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) into Moving Horizon Estimation (MHE). This is a shift from using traditional physics-based models within MHE towards data-driven techniques.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-29 Alexander Winkler , Pranav Shah , Katrin Baumgärtner , Vasu Sharma , David Gordon , Jakob Andert

Autonomous landing on a moving platform presents unique challenges for multirotor vehicles, including the need to accurately localize the platform, fast trajectory planning, and precise/robust control. Previous works studied this problem…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-16 Aleix Paris , Brett T. Lopez , Jonathan P. How

Traversing narrow gates presents a significant challenge and has become a standard benchmark for evaluating agile and precise quadrotor flight. Traditional modularized autonomous flight stacks require extensive design and parameter tuning,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Tianchen Sun , Bingheng Wang , Nuthasith Gerdpratoom , Longbin Tang , Yichao Gao , Lin Zhao

In this work, an innovative data-driven moving horizon state estimation is proposed for model dynamic-unknown systems based on Bayesian optimization. As long as the measurement data is received, a locally linear dynamics model can be…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-14 Qing Sun , Shuai Niu , Minrui Fei

It has long been hoped that model-based control will improve tracking performance while maintaining or increasing compliance. This hope hinges on having or being able to estimate an accurate inverse dynamics model. As a result, substantial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-08-11 Nathan Ratliff , Franziska Meier , Daniel Kappler , Stefan Schaal

In Moving Horizon Estimation (MHE) the computed estimate is found by solving a constrained finite-time optimal estimation problem in real-time at each sample in a receding horizon fashion. The constrained estimation problem can be solved…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-10-22 Isak Nielsen , Daniel Axehill

Control performance of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is directly affected by their ability to estimate their states accurately. With the increasing popularity of autonomous UAV solutions in real world applications, it is imperative to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Mohamad Wahbah , Mohamad Chehadeh , Yahya Zweiri

The demand for accurate and fast trajectory tracking for multirotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have grown recently due to advances in UAV avionics technology and application domains. In many applications, the multirotor UAV is required…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Abdulaziz Y. Alkayas , Mohamad Chehadeh , Abdulla Ayyad , Yahya Zweiri

Disturbance observer-based control has shown promise in robustifying robotic systems against uncertainties. However, tuning such systems remains challenging due to the strong coupling between controller gains and observer parameters. In…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Xiexin Peng , Bingheng Wang , Tao Zhang , Ying Zheng

This paper presents a robust moving horizon estimation (MHE) approach with provable estimation error bounds for solving the simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) problem. We derive sufficient conditions to guarantee robust stability…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-21 Jelena Trisovic , Alexandre Didier , Simon Muntwiler , Melanie N. Zeilinger

This paper presents a recursive solution to the receding or moving horizon estimation (MHE) problem for nonlinear time-variant systems. We provide the conditions under which the recursive MHE is equivalent to the extended Kalman filter…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-24 Xu Weng , K. V. Ling , Ling Zhao

The accuracy of moving horizon estimation (MHE) suffers significantly in the presence of measurement outliers. Existing methods address this issue by treating measurements leading to large MHE cost function values as outliers, which are…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-04 Wenhan Cao , Chang Liu , Zhiqian Lan , Shengbo Eben Li , Wei Pan , Angelo Alessandri