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We present a model predictive control (MPC) framework for efficient navigation of mobile robots in cluttered environments. The proposed approach integrates a finite-segment shortest path planner into the finite-horizon trajectory…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Johannes Köhler , Daniel Zhang , Raffaele Soloperto , Andrea Carron , Melanie 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

Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC) is widely used for controlling high-speed robotic systems such as quadrotors. However, its significant computational demands often hinder real-time feasibility and reliability, particularly in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Saber Omidi

Model predictive control (MPC) faces significant limitations when applied to systems evolving on nonlinear manifolds, such as robotic attitude dynamics and constrained motion planning, where traditional Euclidean formulations struggle with…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Peiwen Yang , Weisong Wen , Runqiu Yang , Yuanyuan Zhang , Jiahao Hu , Yingming Chen , Naigui Xiao , Jiaqi Zhao

Model predictive control (MPC) is a powerful control method that allows to directly include state and input constraints into the controller design. However, errors in the model, e.g., caused by unknown disturbances, can lead to constraint…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-08 Felix Brändle , Frank Allgöwer

Model predictive control (MPC) is capable of controlling nonlinear systems with guaranteed constraint satisfaction and stability. However, MPC requires solving optimization problems online periodically, which often exceeds the local…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-29 Alexander Gräfe , Sebastian Trimpe

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

Motion planning for autonomous robots in dynamic environments poses numerous challenges due to uncertainties in the robot's dynamics and interaction with other agents. Sampling-based MPC approaches, such as Model Predictive Path Integral…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Elia Trevisan , Javier Alonso-Mora

Data-driven model predictive control (MPC) has demonstrated significant potential for improving robot control performance in the presence of model uncertainties. However, existing approaches often require extensive offline data collection…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Yu Mei , Xinyu Zhou , Shuyang Yu , Vaibhav Srivastava , Xiaobo Tan

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

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

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

Model Predictive Control (MPC) provides an optimal control solution based on a cost function while allowing for the implementation of process constraints. As a model-based optimal control technique, the performance of MPC strongly depends…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-11 David C. Gordon , Alexander Winkler , Julian Bedei , Patrick Schaber , Jakob Andert , Charles R. Koch

Kinodynamic Motion Planning (KMP) is to find a robot motion subject to concurrent kinematics and dynamics constraints. To date, quite a few methods solve KMP problems and those that exist struggle to find near-optimal solutions and exhibit…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Linjun Li , Yinglong Miao , Ahmed H. Qureshi , Michael C. Yip

This paper presents a Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC) scheme targeted at motion planning for mechatronic motion systems, such as drones and mobile platforms. NMPC-based motion planning typically requires low computation times to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Dries Dirckx , Mathias Bos , Bastiaan Vandewal , Lander Vanroye , Wilm Decré , Jan Swevers

Differentiable model predictive control (MPC) offers a powerful framework for combining learning and control. However, its adoption has been limited by the inherently sequential nature of traditional optimization algorithms, which are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-08 Emre Adabag , Marcus Greiff , John Subosits , Thomas Lew

Model predictive control (MPC) is a powerful framework for optimal control of dynamical systems. However, MPC solvers suffer from a high computational burden that restricts their application to systems with low sampling frequency. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-12 Casian Iacob , Hany Abdulsamad , Simo Särkkä

Model Predictive Control (MPC) can efficiently control constrained systems in real-time applications. MPC feedback law for a linear system with linear inequality constraints can be explicitly computed off-line, which results in an off-line…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-06-13 Andrew Knyazev , Peizhen Zhu , Stefano Di Cairano

Model predictive control (MPC) anticipates future events to take appropriate control actions. Nonlinear MPC (NMPC) describes systems with nonlinear models and/or constraints. A Continuation/GMRES Method for NMPC, suggested by T. Ohtsuka in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-09-10 Andrew Knyazev , Yuta Fujii , Alexander Malyshev

Model predictive control (MPC) is a powerful control method that handles dynamical systems with constraints. However, solving MPC iteratively in real time, i.e., implicit MPC, remains a computational challenge. To address this, common…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-03 Fangyu Wu , Guanhua Wang , Siyuan Zhuang , Kehan Wang , Alexander Keimer , Ion Stoica , Alexandre Bayen