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Reinforcement Learning (RL) has demonstrated a huge potential in learning optimal policies without any prior knowledge of the process to be controlled. Model Predictive Control (MPC) is a popular control technique which is able to deal with…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Mario Zanon , Sébastien Gros , Alberto Bemporad

In the literature, actor-critic model predictive control (AC-MPC) integrates MPC with reinforcement learning to enable high-performance control of complex dynamical systems. However, its differentiable MPC layer requires repeatedly solving…

A Learning Model Predictive Controller (LMPC) is presented and tailored to platooning and Connected Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) applications. The proposed controller builds on previous work on nonlinear LMPC, adapting its architecture and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-09 Hassan Jafarzadeh , Cody Fleming

Model predictive control (MPC) is a method to formulate the optimal scheduling problem for grid flexibilities in a mathematical manner. The resulting time-constrained optimization problem can be re-solved in each optimization time step…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-20 Steven de Jongh , Sina Steinle , Anna Hlawatsch , Felicitas Mueller , Michael Suriyah , Thomas Leibfried

This paper investigates controller identification given data from a Model Predictive Controller (MPC) with constraints. We propose an approach for learning MPC that explicitly uses the gradient information in the training process. This is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-04 Rebecka Winqvist , Arun Venkitaraman , Bo Wahlberg

We present differentiable predictive control (DPC), a method for learning constrained neural control policies for linear systems with probabilistic performance guarantees. We employ automatic differentiation to obtain direct policy…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-28 Jan Drgona , Aaron Tuor , Draguna Vrabie

Autonomous drone racing presents a challenging control problem, requiring real-time decision-making and robust handling of nonlinear system dynamics. While iterative learning model predictive control (LMPC) offers a promising framework for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Haocheng Zhao , Niklas Schlüter , Lukas Brunke , Angela P. Schoellig

We propose a novel Stochastic Model Predictive Control (MPC) for uncertain linear systems subject to probabilistic constraints. The proposed approach leverages offline learning to extract key features of affine disturbance feedback…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-22 Hotae Lee , Francesco Borrelli

Traditional online Model Predictive Control (MPC) methods often suffer from excessive computational complexity, limiting their practical deployment. Explicit MPC mitigates online computational load by pre-computing control policies offline;…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Sichao Wu , Jiang Wu , Xingyu Cao , Fawang Zhang , Guangyuan Yu , Junjie Zhao , Yue Qu , Fei Ma , Jingliang Duan

Since the earliest conceptualizations by Lee and Markus, and Propoi in the 1960s, Model Predictive Control (MPC) has become a major success story of systems and control with respect to industrial impact and with respect to continued and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-06-03 Timm Faulwasser , Sergio Lucia , Moritz Schulze Darup , Martin Mönnigmann

Model Predictive Control (MPC) offers rigorous safety and performance guarantees but is computationally intensive. Approximate MPC (AMPC) aims to circumvent this drawback by learning a computationally cheaper surrogate policy. Common…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-19 Elias Milios , Kim P. Wabersich , Felix Berkel , Felix Gruber , Melanie N. Zeilinger

We propose an iterative approach for designing Robust Learning Model Predictive Control (LMPC) policies for a class of nonlinear systems with additive, unmodelled dynamics. The nominal dynamics are assumed to be difference flat, i.e., the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-23 Siddharth H. Nair , Francesco Borrelli

Model predictive control (MPC) is widely used for motion planning, particularly in autonomous driving. Real-time capability of the planner requires utilizing convex approximation of optimal control problems (OCPs) for the planner. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Johannes Fischer , Marlon Steiner , Ömer Sahin Tas , Christoph Stiller

Model predictive control (MPC) is a powerful control method that allows to directly include state and input constraints into the controller design. However, errors in the model, e.g., caused by unknown disturbances, can lead to constraint…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-08 Felix Brändle , Frank Allgöwer

The contribution of this paper is a framework for training and evaluation of Model Predictive Control (MPC) implemented using constrained neural networks. Recent studies have proposed to use neural networks with differentiable convex…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-05-11 Rebecka Winqvist , Arun Venkitaraman , Bo Wahlberg

Model Predictive Control (MPC) is a powerful framework for optimal control but can be too slow for low-latency applications. We present a data-driven framework to accelerate MPC by replacing online optimization with a nonparametric policy…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-20 Agustin Castellano , Shijie Pan , Enrique Mallada

Intelligent aerial platforms such as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are expected to revolutionize various fields, including transportation, traffic management, field monitoring, industrial production, and agricultural management. Among…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Huy-Hoang Ngo , Thanh Nguyen Canh , Xiem HoangVan

Model predictive control (MPC) is a powerful technique for solving dynamic control tasks. In this paper, we show that there exists a close connection between MPC and online learning, an abstract theoretical framework for analyzing online…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-10 Nolan Wagener , Ching-An Cheng , Jacob Sacks , Byron Boots

This work presents an explicit-implicit procedure to compute a model predictive control (MPC) law with guarantees on recursive feasibility and asymptotic stability. The approach combines an offline-trained fully-connected neural network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Steven W. Chen , Tianyu Wang , Nikolay Atanasov , Vijay Kumar , Manfred Morari

Learning Model Predictive Control (LMPC) improves performance on iterative tasks by leveraging data from previous executions. At each iteration, LMPC constructs a sampled safe set from past trajectories and uses it as a terminal constraint,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-02 Wataru Hashimoto , Kazumune Hashimoto