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The focus of this paper is an integrated, fault-tolerant vehicle supervisory control algorithm for the overall stability of ground vehicles. Vehicle control systems contain many sensors and actuators that can communicate with each other…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-14 Ozan Temiz , Melih Cakmakci , Yildiray Yildiz

Model mismatch and process noise are two frequently occurring phenomena that can drastically affect the performance of model predictive control (MPC) in practical applications. We propose a principled way to tune the cost function and the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-24 Riccardo Zuliani , Efe C. Balta , John Lygeros

Ensuring safety and motion consistency for robot navigation in occluded, obstacle-dense environments is a critical challenge. In this context, this study presents an occlusion-aware Consistent Model Predictive Control (CMPC) strategy. To…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Minzhe Zheng , Lei Zheng , Lei Zhu , Jun Ma

In this article, we propose a tractable nonlinear fault isolation filter along with explicit performance bounds for a class of nonlinear dynamical systems. We consider the presence of additive and multiplicative faults, occurring…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-27 Chris van der Ploeg , Mohsen Alirezaei , Nathan van de Wouw , Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani

This article examines a symbolic numerical approach to optimize a vehicle's track for autonomous driving and collision avoidance. The new approach uses the classical cost function definition incorporating the essential aspects of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-18 Hazem Fahmy , Mohamed A. Abd El Ghany , Gerd Baumann

Induction motors are one of the most crucial electrical equipment and are extensively used in industries in a wide range of applications. This paper presents a machine learning model for the fault detection and classification of induction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Kavana Venkatesh , Neethi M

We present a shared control paradigm that improves a user's ability to operate complex, dynamic systems in potentially dangerous environments without a priori knowledge of the user's objective. In this paradigm, the role of the autonomous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Alexander Broad , Todd Murphey , Brenna Argall

Reliability has taken centre stage in the development of high-performance computing processors. A Surge of interest is noticeable in recent times in formulating fault and failure models, understanding failure mechanism and strategizing…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Shashikiran Venkatesha , Ranjani Parthasarathi

Even though mobile robots have been around for decades, trajectory optimization and continuous time collision avoidance remain subject of active research. Existing methods trade off between path quality, computational complexity, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Tobias Schoels , Luigi Palmieri , Kai O. Arras , Moritz Diehl

This paper presents an approach to mutual collision avoidance based on Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC) with time-dependent Reciprocal Velocity Constraints (RVCs). Unlike most existing methods, the proposed approach relies solely…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Vit Kratky , Robert Penicka , Parakh M. Gupta , Ondrej Prochazka , Martin Saska

Safety and reliability are crucial in industrial drive systems, where hazardous failures can have severe consequences. Detecting and mitigating dangerous faults on time is challenging due to the stochastic and unpredictable nature of fault…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Imran Riaz Hasrat , Eun-Young Kang , Christian Uldal Graulund

In this paper, we present a controller framework that synthesizes control policies for Jump Markov Linear Systems subject to stochastic mode switches and imperfect mode estimation. Our approach builds on safe and robust methods for Model…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-17 Zakariya Laouar , Qi Heng Ho , Rayan Mazouz , Tyler Becker , Zachary N. Sunberg

In this paper, a risk map-based path planning algorithm is introduced for autonomous vehicles. Multivariate B-splines are implemented to generate a risk map, which measures the risk of colliding with different objects. In the following…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-09 Qiannan Wang , Matthias Gerdts

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

This paper addresses the trajectory-tracking problem under uncertain road-surface conditions for autonomous vehicles. We propose a stochastic nonlinear model predictive controller (SNMPC) that learns a tire--road friction model online using…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-09 Sean Vaskov , Rien Quirynen , Marcel Menner , Karl Berntorp

This paper addresses the motion control problem for underactuated mechanical systems with full attitude control and one translational force input to manage the six degrees of freedom involved in the three-dimensional Euclidean space. These…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-30 Jean C. Pereira , Valter J. S. Leite , Guilherme V. Raffo

In this paper we present a framework for risk-averse model predictive control (MPC) of linear systems affected by multiplicative uncertainty. Our key innovation is to consider time-consistent, dynamic risk metrics as objective functions to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-11-24 Yin-Lam Chow , Marco Pavone

Robotic manipulators are essential for precise industrial pick-and-place operations, yet planning collision-free trajectories in dynamic environments remains challenging due to uncertainties such as sensor noise and time-varying delays.…

Fault diagnosis is crucial for complex autonomous mobile systems, especially for modern-day autonomous driving (AD). Different actors, numerous use cases, and complex heterogeneous components motivate a fault diagnosis of the system and…

We propose an adaptive Model Predictive Safety Certification (MPSC) scheme for learning-based control of linear systems with bounded disturbances and uncertain parameters where the true parameters are contained within an a priori known set…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-30 Alexandre Didier , Kim P. Wabersich , Melanie N. Zeilinger