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This paper develops computationally efficient data-driven model predictive control (MPC) for Agile quadrotor flight. Agile quadrotors in high-speed flights can experience high levels of aerodynamic effects. Modeling these turbulent…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Wonoo Choo , Erkan Kayacan

Estimating and reacting to external disturbances is of fundamental importance for robust control of quadrotors. Existing estimators typically require significant tuning or training with a large amount of data, including the ground truth, to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Bingheng Wang , Zhengtian Ma , Shupeng Lai , Lin Zhao , Tong Heng Lee

Estimating and reacting to disturbances is crucial for robust flight control of quadrotors. Existing estimators typically require significant tuning for a specific flight scenario or training with extensive ground-truth disturbance data to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Bingheng Wang , Zhengtian Ma , Shupeng Lai , Lin Zhao

To control a dynamical system it is essential to obtain an accurate estimate of the current system state based on uncertain sensor measurements and existing system knowledge. An optimization-based moving horizon estimation (MHE) approach…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-03 Simon Muntwiler , Kim P. Wabersich , Melanie N. Zeilinger

Aerodynamic forces render accurate high-speed trajectory tracking with quadrotors extremely challenging. These complex aerodynamic effects become a significant disturbance at high speeds, introducing large positional tracking errors, and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Guillem Torrente , Elia Kaufmann , Philipp Foehn , Davide Scaramuzza

Quadrotors are among the most agile flying robots. Despite recent advances in learning-based control and computer vision, autonomous drones still rely on explicit state estimation. On the other hand, human pilots only rely on a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Ismail Geles , Leonard Bauersfeld , Angel Romero , Jiaxu Xing , Davide Scaramuzza

This paper introduces a data-based moving horizon estimation (MHE) scheme for linear time-invariant discrete-time systems. The scheme solely relies on collected data without employing any system identification step. Robust global…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-29 Tobias M. Wolff , Victor G. Lopez , Matthias A. Müller

This report presents three Moving Horizon Estimation (MHE) methods for discrete-time partitioned linear systems, i.e. systems decomposed into coupled subsystems with non-overlapping states. The MHE approach is used due to its capability of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-01 Marcello Farina , Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate , Riccardo Scattolini

In this paper, we introduce a Gaussian process based moving horizon estimation (MHE) framework. The scheme is based on offline collected data and offline hyperparameter optimization. In particular, compared to standard MHE schemes, we…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-16 Tobias M. Wolff , Victor G. Lopez , Matthias A. Müller

The paper addresses state estimation for linear discrete-time systems with binary (threshold) measurements. A Moving Horizon Estimation (MHE) approach is followed and different estimators, characterized by two different choices of the cost…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-04-05 Giorgio Battistelli , Luigi Chisci , Stefano Gherardini

In this paper, partition-based distributed state estimation of general linear systems is considered. A distributed moving horizon state estimation scheme is developed via decomposing the entire system model into subsystem models and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-11 Xiaojie Li , Song Bo , Yan Qin , Xunyuan Yin

In this paper, we propose a novel Gaussian process-based moving horizon estimation (MHE) framework for unknown nonlinear systems. On the one hand, we approximate the system dynamics by the posterior means of the learned Gaussian processes…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-01 Tobias M. Wolff , Victor G. Lopez , Matthias A. Müller

This paper investigates the state estimation problem for linear systems subject to Gaussian noise, where the model parameters are unknown. By formulating and solving an optimization problem that incorporates both offline and online system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-10 Peihu Duan , Jiabao He , Yuezu Lv , Guanghui Wen

This paper considers a practical scenario where a classical estimation method might have already been implemented on a certain platform when one tries to apply more advanced techniques such as moving horizon estimation (MHE). We are…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-07-06 He Kong , Salah Sukkarieh

This paper presents a state- and control-dependent moving-horizon estimation (SCD-MHE) algorithm for nonlinear discrete-time systems. Within this framework, a pseudo-linear representation of nonlinear dynamics is leveraged utilizing state-…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-03 Mohammadreza Kamaldar

This paper describes the synthesis and evaluation of a novel state estimator for a Quadrotor Micro Aerial Vehicle. Dynamic equations which relate acceleration, attitude and the aero-dynamic propeller drag are encapsulated in an extended…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-09-14 Dinuka Abeywardena , Sarath Kodagoda , Gamini Dissanayake , Rohan Munasinghe

In this paper, we propose a sample-based moving horizon estimation (MHE) scheme for general nonlinear systems to estimate the current system state using irregularly and/or infrequently available measurements. The cost function of the MHE…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-24 Isabelle Krauss , Victor G. Lopez , Matthias A. Müller

In this paper, a robust data-driven moving horizon estimation (MHE) scheme for linear time-invariant discrete-time systems is introduced. The scheme solely relies on offline collected data without employing any system identification step.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-29 Tobias M. Wolff , Victor G. Lopez , Matthias A. Müller

This paper presents an adaptive modified Robust Inverse of Signum Error (AM-RISE) control method, which achieves reliable trajectory tracking control for a quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle. The proposed method systematically accounts for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-02 Kevin Johnston , Musabbir Ahmed Arrafi , Krishna B Kidambi , Madhur Tiwari

In this work, an innovative data-driven moving horizon state estimation is proposed for model dynamic-unknown systems based on Bayesian optimization. As long as the measurement data is received, a locally linear dynamics model can be…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-14 Qing Sun , Shuai Niu , Minrui Fei
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