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This work proposes a novel robust model predictive control (MPC) algorithm for linear systems affected by dynamic model uncertainty and exogenous disturbances. The uncertainty is modeled using a linear fractional perturbation structure with…

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A key challenge in learning-based model predictive control (MPC) is to collect informative data online for model adaptation while ensuring safety and without penalising control performance. In this paper, we propose an online model…

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Model Predictive Control (MPC) has shown to be a successful method for many applications that require control. Especially in the presence of prediction uncertainty, various types of MPC offer robust or efficient control system behavior. For…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-17 Tim Brüdigam , Jie Zhan , Dirk Wollherr , Marion Leibold

Deterministic model predictive control (MPC), while powerful, is often insufficient for effectively controlling autonomous systems in the real-world. Factors such as environmental noise and model error can cause deviations from the expected…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-29 Alex Oshin , Hassan Almubarak , Evangelos A. Theodorou

In model-predictive control (MPC), achieving the best closed-loop performance under a given computational resource is the underlying design consideration. This paper analyzes the MPC design problem with control performance and required…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-25 Vincent Bachtiar , Chris Manzie , William H. Moase , Eric C. Kerrigan

We study tracking control for uncertain nonlinear multi-input, multi-output systems modelled by $r$-th order functional differential equations (encompassing systems with arbitrary strict relative degree) in the presence of input…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-04-18 Thomas Berger

Robust model predictive control (MPC) is a well-known control technique for model-based control with constraints and uncertainties. In classic robust tube-based MPC approaches, an open-loop control sequence is computed via periodically…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-13 Xinglong Zhang , Jiahang Liu , Xin Xu , Shuyou Yu , Hong Chen

Tracking of reference signals is addressed in the context of a class of nonlinear controlled systems modelled by $r$-th order functional differential equations, encompassing inter alia systems with unknown "control direction" and dead-zone…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-18 Thomas Berger , Achim Ilchmann , Eugene P Ryan

This work introduces a formulation of model predictive control (MPC) which adaptively reasons about the complexity of the model based on the task while maintaining feasibility and stability guarantees. Existing MPC implementations often…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Joseph Norby , Ardalan Tajbakhsh , Yanhao Yang , Aaron M. Johnson

In adaptive-sampling control, the control frequency can be adjusted during task execution. Ensuring that these changes do not jeopardize the safety of the system being controlled requires attention. We introduce robust M-step hold model…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-08 Spencer Schutz , Charlott Vallon , Francesco Borrelli

We propose a data-driven tracking model predictive control (MPC) scheme to control unknown discrete-time linear time-invariant systems. The scheme uses a purely data-driven system parametrization to predict future trajectories based on…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-19 Julian Berberich , Johannes Köhler , Matthias A. Müller , Frank Allgöwer

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

Sequential and terminal constraint feasibility of the model predictive control (MPC) play important roles in ensuring MPC control continuity. This study thus investigates these two properties theoretically using an MPC model for vehicle…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-24 Hanyu Zhang , Lili Du

We present a stochastic model predictive control (MPC) method for linear discrete-time systems subject to possibly unbounded and correlated additive stochastic disturbance sequences. Chance constraints are treated in analogy to robust MPC…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Lukas Hewing , Kim P. Wabersich , Melanie N. Zeilinger

We propose model-plant mismatch learning offset-free model predictive control (MPC), which learns and applies the intrinsic model-plant mismatch, to effectively exploit the advantages of model-based and data-driven control strategies and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-15 Sang Hwan Son , Jong Woo Kim , Tae Hoon Oh , Jong Min Lee

Various efforts have been devoted to developing stabilizing distributed Model Predictive Control (MPC) schemes for tracking piecewise constant references. In these schemes, terminal sets are usually computed offline and used in the MPC…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-29 Ahmed Aboudonia , Annika Eichler , Francesco Cordiano , Goran Banjac , John Lygeros

Model Predictive Control (MPC) for tracking formulation presents numerous advantages compared to standard MPC, such as a larger domain of attraction and recursive feasibility even when abrupt changes in the reference are produced. As a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-24 Victor Gracia , Pablo Krupa , Daniel Limon , Teodoro Alamo

This paper is about a real-time model predictive control (MPC) algorithm for a particular class of model based controllers, whose objective consists of a nominal tracking objective and an additional learning objective. Here, the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-09 Xuhui Feng , Boris Houska

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

In this paper, we present a quasi infinite horizon nonlinear model predictive control (MPC) scheme for tracking of generic reference trajectories. This scheme is applicable to nonlinear systems, which are locally incrementally stabilizable.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-12 Johannes Köhler , Matthias A. Müller , Frank Allgöwer