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Model Predictive Control (MPC) is a classic tool for optimal control of complex, real-world systems. Although it has been successfully applied to a wide range of challenging tasks in robotics, it is fundamentally limited by the prediction…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Nathan Hatch , Byron Boots

A dual adaptive model predictive control (MPC) algorithm is presented for linear, time-invariant systems subject to bounded disturbances and parametric uncertainty in the state-space matrices. Online set-membership identification is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-23 Anilkumar Parsi , Andrea Iannelli , Roy S. Smith

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

Model predictive control is a powerful tool to generate complex motions for robots. However, it often requires solving non-convex problems online to produce rich behaviors, which is computationally expensive and not always practical in real…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Avadesh Meduri , Huaijiang Zhu , Armand Jordana , Ludovic Righetti

Online model predictive control (MPC) for piecewise affine (PWA) systems requires the online solution to an optimization problem that implicitly optimizes over the switching sequence of PWA regions, for which the computational burden can be…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-27 Samuel Mallick , Azita Dabiri , Bart De Schutter

Model Predictive Control (MPC) is a powerful control strategy; however, its reliance on online optimization poses significant challenges for implementation on systems with limited computational resources. One possible approach to address…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-19 Hassan Jafari Ozoumchelooei , Mehdi Hosseinzadeh

Robust optimal or min-max model predictive control (MPC) approaches aim to guarantee constraint satisfaction over a known, bounded uncertainty set while minimizing a worst-case performance bound. Traditionally, these methods compute a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-04 J. Wehbeh , E. C. Kerrigan

With the increasing adoption of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs), it is critical to develop efficient charging coordination mechanisms that minimize the cost and impact of PEV integration to the power grid. In this paper, we consider the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-04 Wanrong Tang , Ying Jun Zhang

Autonomous vehicles are the upcoming solution to most transportation problems such as safety, comfort and efficiency. The steering control is one of the main important tasks in achieving autonomous driving. Model predictive control (MPC) is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Yassine Kebbati , Vicenç Puig , Naima Ait-Oufroukh , Vincent Vigneron , Dalil Ichalal

In this paper, we propose an online learning-based predictive control (LPC) approach designed for nonlinear systems that lack explicit system dynamics. Unlike traditional model predictive control (MPC) algorithms that rely on known system…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-17 Yuanqing Zhang , Huanshui Zhang

This paper studies the optimal control problem for discrete-time nonlinear systems and an approximate dynamic programming-based Model Predictive Control (MPC) scheme is proposed for minimizing a quadratic performance measure. In the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-12 Keerthi Chacko , Midhun T. Augustine , S. Janardhanan , Deepak U. Patil , I. N. Kar

Learning-based model predictive control (MPC) can enhance control performance by correcting for model inaccuracies, enabling more precise state trajectory predictions than traditional MPC. A common approach is to model unknown residual…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-19 Lars Bartels , Amon Lahr , Andrea Carron , Melanie N. Zeilinger

Sampling-based Model Predictive Control (MPC) is a flexible control framework that can reason about non-smooth dynamics and cost functions. Recently, significant work has focused on the use of machine learning to improve the performance of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Jacob Sacks , Byron Boots

In this article, a model predictive control (MPC) method is proposed for constrained linear systems to track bounded references with arbitrary dynamics. Besides control inputs to be determined, artificial reference is introduced as…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-27 Shibo Han , Bonan Hou , Yuhao Zhang , Xiaotong Shi , Xingwei Zhao

Despite great successes, model predictive control (MPC) relies on an accurate dynamical model and requires high onboard computational power, impeding its wider adoption in engineering systems, especially for nonlinear real-time systems with…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-03 Amin Vahidi-Moghaddam , Kaian Chen , Kaixiang Zhang , Zhaojian Li , Yan Wang , Kai Wu

This paper presents a systematic method for the selection of the Model Predictive Control (MPC) stage cost. We match the MPC feedback law to a proportional-integral (PI) controller, which we efficiently tune by high-performance Monte Carlo…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-06 Morten Ryberg Wahlgreen , John Bagterp Jørgensen , Mario Zanon

This paper presents a Model Predictive Control (MPC) scheme for flight scheduling and energy management of electric aviation networks, where electric aircraft transport passengers between electrified airports equipped with sustainable…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Finn Vehlhaber , Mauro Salazar

Model predictive control (MPC) is an optimal control strategy where control input calculation is based on minimizing the predicted tracking error over a finite horizon that moves with time. This strategy has an advantage over conventional…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-28 Joseph Chai , Eran Medagoda , Erkan Kayacan

We present a new algorithm for model predictive control of non-linear systems with respect to multiple, conflicting objectives. The idea is to provide a possibility to change the objective in real-time, e.g.~as a reaction to changes in the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-02 Sebastian Peitz , Kai Schäfer , Sina Ober-Blöbaum , Julian Eckstein , Ulrich Köhler , Michael Dellnitz

Model Predictive Control (MPC) is typically characterized for being computationally demanding, as it requires solving optimization problems online; a particularly relevant point when considering its implementation in embedded systems. To…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-19 Victor Gracia , Pablo Krupa , Teodoro Alamo , Daniel Limon