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Model predictive control (MPC) has become increasingly popular for the control of robot manipulators due to its improved performance compared to instantaneous control approaches. However, tuning these controllers remains a considerable…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Johan Ubbink , Ruan Viljoen , Erwin Aertbeliën , Wilm Decré , Joris De Schutter

Co-optimization of both vehicle speed and gear position via model predictive control (MPC) has been shown to offer benefits for fuel-efficient autonomous driving. However, optimizing both the vehicle's continuous dynamics and discrete gear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-29 Samuel Mallick , Gianpietro Battocletti , Qizhang Dong , Azita Dabiri , Bart De Schutter

Recent studies have shown that multi-step optimization based on Model Predictive Control (MPC) can effectively coordinate the increasing number of distributed renewable energy and storage resources in the power system. However, the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-06-02 Junyao Guo , Gabriela Hug , Ozan Tonguz

Optimality is a critical aspect of Model Predictive Control (MPC), especially in economic MPC. However, achieving optimality in MPC presents significant challenges, and may even be impossible, due to inherent inaccuracies in the predictive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-25 Akhil S Anand , Arash Bahari Kordabad , Mario Zanon , Sebastien Gros

Model Predictive Control (MPC) is a state-of-the-art (SOTA) control technique which requires solving hard constrained optimization problems iteratively. For uncertain dynamics, analytical model based robust MPC imposes additional…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-27 Sourav Sanyal , Kaushik Roy

This tutorial consists of a brief introduction to the modern control approach called model predictive control (MPC) and its numerical implementation using MATLAB. We discuss the basic concepts and numerical implementation of the two major…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-04 Midhun T. Augustine

In this paper, we address the problem of reducing the computational burden of Model Predictive Control (MPC) for real-time robotic applications. We propose TransformerMPC, a method that enhances the computational efficiency of MPC…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Vrushabh Zinage , Ahmed Khalil , Efstathios Bakolas

Fast feedback control and safety guarantees are essential in modern robotics. We present an approach that achieves both by combining novel robust model predictive control (MPC) with function approximation via (deep) neural networks (NNs).…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Julian Nubert , Johannes Köhler , Vincent Berenz , Frank Allgöwer , Sebastian Trimpe

This paper focuses on passenger-oriented real-time train rescheduling, considering flexible train composition and rolling stock circulation, by integrating learning-based and optimization-based approaches. A learning-based model predictive…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-01 Xiaoyu Liu , Caio Fabio Oliveira da Silva , Azita Dabiri , Yihui Wang , Bart De Schutter

We present a model predictive control (MPC) framework for nonlinear stochastic systems that ensures safety guarantee with high probability. Unlike most existing stochastic MPC schemes, our method adopts a set-erosion that converts the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-16 Zishun Liu , Liqian Ma , Yongxin Chen

In this paper, we present a Model Predictive Control (MPC) framework based on path velocity decomposition paradigm for autonomous driving. The optimization underlying the MPC has a two layer structure wherein first, an appropriate path is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-03-09 Mithun Babu , Yash Oza , Arun Kumar Singh , K. Madhava Krishna , Shanti Medasani

The paper investigates the accuracy of the Model Predictive Control (MPC) method for finding online approximate optimal feedback control for Bolza type problems on a fixed finite horizon. The predictions for the dynamics, the state…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-17 Georgi Angelov , Alberto Domínguez Corella , Vladimir Veliov

In this brief, a model-free adaptive predictive control (MFAPC) is proposed. It outperforms the current model-free adaptive control (MFAC) for not only solving the time delay problem in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems but also…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-17 Feilong Zhang

We propose a Model Predictive Control (MPC) with a single-step prediction horizon to approximate the solution of infinite horizon optimal control problems with the expected sum of convex stage costs for constrained linear uncertain systems.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-24 Eunhyek Joa , Francesco Borrelli

Deep Model Predictive Control (Deep MPC) is an evolving field that integrates model predictive control and deep learning. This manuscript is focused on a particular approach, which employs deep neural network in the loop with MPC. This…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-24 Prabhat K. Mishra , Mateus V. Gasparino , Girish Chowdhary

The main challenge in controlling hybrid systems arises from having to consider an exponential number of sequences of future modes to make good long-term decisions. Model predictive control (MPC) computes a control action through a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-09 Sandeep Menta , Joseph Warrington , John Lygeros , Manfred Morari

Model Predictive Control is an extremely effective control method for systems with input and state constraints. Model Predictive Control performance heavily depends on the accuracy of the open-loop prediction. For systems with uncertainty…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-27 Francesco Micheli , John Lygeros

The modular open-source framework GRAMPC-D for model predictive control of distributed systems is presented in this paper. The modular concept allows to solve optimal control problems (OCP) in a centralized and distributed fashion using the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-26 Daniel Burk , Andreas Völz , Knut Graichen

This paper proposes a learning-based model predictive control (MPC) approach for the thermal control of a four-zone smart building. The objectives are to minimize energy consumption and maintain the residents' comfort. The proposed control…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-13 Roja Eini , Sherif Abdelwahed

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