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To enable autonomous driving in interactive traffic scenarios, various model predictive control (MPC) formulations have been proposed, each employing different interaction models. While higher-fidelity models enable more intelligent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Shuhao Qi , Qiling Aori , Luyao Zhang , Mircea Lazar , Sofie Haesaert

This work presents a novel framework for the formation control of multiple autonomous ground vehicles in an on-road environment. Unique challenges of this problem lie in 1) the design of collision avoidance strategies with obstacles and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-05-03 Xiangjun Qian , Florent Altché , Arnaud de La Fortelle , Fabien Moutarde

Flow-based generative models provide strong unconditional priors for inverse problems, but guiding their dynamics for conditional generation remains challenging. Recent work casts training-free conditional generation in flow models as an…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-02 George Webber , Alexander Denker , Riccardo Barbano , Andrew J Reader

Driverless vehicles are complex systems operating in constantly changing environments. Automated driving is achieved by controlling the coupled longitudinal and lateral vehicle dynamics. Model predictive control is one of the most promising…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Yassine Kebbati , Naima Ait-Oufroukh , Vicenç Puig , Vincent Vigneron , Dalil Ichalal

For safe and efficient planning and control in autonomous driving, we need a driving policy which can achieve desirable driving quality in long-term horizon with guaranteed safety and feasibility. Optimization-based approaches, such as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Liting Sun , Cheng Peng , Wei Zhan , Masayoshi Tomizuka

In this paper, a learning based Model Predictive Control (MPC) using a low dimensional residual model is proposed for autonomous driving. One of the critical challenge in autonomous driving is the complexity of vehicle dynamics, which…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Yaoyu Li , Chaosheng Huang , Dongsheng Yang , Wenbo Liu , Jun Li

This paper presents a novel envelope based model predictive control (MPC) framework designed to enable autonomous vehicles to handle high performance driving across a wide range of scenarios without a predefined reference. In high…

In this work, we propose a novel learning-based model predictive control (MPC) framework for motion planning and control of urban self-driving. In this framework, instantaneous references and cost functions of online MPC are learned from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Yubin Wang , Zengqi Peng , Yusen Xie , Yulin Li , Hakim Ghazzai , Jun Ma

Model predictive control (MPC) is a powerful, optimization-based approach for controlling dynamical systems. However, the computational complexity of online optimization can be problematic on embedded devices. Especially, when we need to…

This paper proposes a novel tube-based Model Predictive Control (MPC) framework for tracking varying setpoint references with linear systems subject to additive and multiplicative uncertainties. The MPC controllers designed using this…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-10 Filippo Badalamenti , Sampath Kumar Mulagaleti , Alberto Bemporad , Boris Houska , Mario Eduardo Villanueva

Driving simulators have been used in the automotive industry for many years because of their ability to perform tests in a safe, reproducible and controlled immersive virtual environment. The improved performance of the simulator and its…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Akhil Chadha , Vishrut Jain , Andrea Michelle Rios Lazcano , Barys Shyrokau

Motion planning for autonomous driving must account for multi-modal uncertainty in both the intentions and trajectories of surrounding vehicles. Handling uncertainty in a worst-case manner guarantees robustness but often leads to excessive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Zekun Xing , Ramkrishna Chaudhari , Marion Leibold , Dirk Wollherr , Martin Buss

Motivated by the application of using model predictive control (MPC) for motion planning of autonomous mobile robots, a form of output tracking MPC for non-holonomic systems and with non-convex constraints is studied. Although the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Matthias Lorenzen , Teodoro Alamo , Martina Mammarella , Fabrizio Dabbene

This work presents DMPC (Data-and Model-Driven Predictive Control) to solve control problems in which some of the constraints or parts of the objective function are known, while others are entirely unknown to the controller. It is assumed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-02 Hassan Jafarzadeh , Cody Fleming

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

In this paper, we propose a whole-body planning framework that unifies dynamic locomotion and manipulation tasks by formulating a single multi-contact optimal control problem. We model the hybrid nature of a generic multi-limbed mobile…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Jean-Pierre Sleiman , Farbod Farshidian , Maria Vittoria Minniti , Marco Hutter

In this paper we present a Learning Model Predictive Controller (LMPC) for autonomous racing. We model the autonomous racing problem as a minimum time iterative control task, where an iteration corresponds to a lap. In the proposed approach…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-20 Ugo Rosolia , Francesco Borrelli

One of the critical challenges in automated driving is ensuring safety of automated vehicles despite the unknown behavior of the other vehicles. Although motion prediction modules are able to generate a probability distribution associated…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-28 Luyao Zhang , George Pantazis , Shaohang Han , Sergio Grammatico

Developing safe automated vehicles that can be proactive, safe, and comfortable in mixed traffic requires improved planning methods that are risk-averse and that account for predictions of the motion of other road users. To consider these…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-16 Chris van der Ploeg , Robin Smit , Arjan Teerhuis , Emilia Silvas

Model predictive control (MPC) is widely used for path tracking of autonomous vehicles due to its ability to handle various types of constraints. However, a considerable predictive error exists because of the error of mathematics model or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Chaoyang Jiang , Hanqing Tian , Jibin Hu , Jiankun Zhai , Chao Wei , Jun Ni