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Many practical applications of control require that constraints on the inputs and states of the system be respected, while optimizing some performance criterion. In the presence of model uncertainties or disturbances, for many control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Georg Schildbach , Lorenzo Fagiano , Christoph Frei , Manfred Morari

The paper considers constrained linear systems with stochastic additive disturbances and noisy measurements transmitted over a lossy communication channel. We propose a model predictive control (MPC) law that minimizes a discounted cost…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-05-08 Shuhao Yan , Mark Cannon , Paul Goulart

This paper designs traffic signal control policies for a network of signalized intersections without knowing the demand and parameters. Within a model predictive control (MPC) framework, control policies consist of an algorithm that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-17 Zhexian Li , Ketan Savla

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

This article presents a constrained policy optimization approach for the optimal control of systems under nonstationary uncertainties. We introduce an assumption that we call Markov embeddability that allows us to cast the stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Sungho Shin , François Pacaud , Emil Contantinescu , Mihai Anitescu

Model predictive control (MPC) has become the most widely used advanced control method in process industry. In many cases, forecasts of the disturbances are available, e.g., predicted renewable power generation based on weather forecast.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-08 Ryan McCloy , Lai Wei , Jie Bao

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

A large-scale complex system comprising many, often spatially distributed, dynamical subsystems with partial autonomy and complex interactions are called system of systems. This paper describes an efficient algorithm for model predictive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-25 Branimir Novoselnik , Vedrana Spudić , Mato Baotić

The paper provides a new approach to the determination of a single state value for stochastic output feedback problems using paradigms from Model Predictive Control, particularly the distinction between open-loop and closed-loop control and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-03 Mohammad S. Ramadan , Robert R. Bitmead , Ke Huang

Model predictive control (MPC) for tracking is a recently introduced approach, which extends standard MPC formulations by incorporating an artificial reference as an additional optimization variable, in order to track external and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-25 Nadine Ehmann , Matthias Köhler , Frank Allgöwer

Model predictive control (MPC) is an optimal control technique which involves solving a sequence of constrained optimization problems across a given time horizon. In this paper, we introduce a category theoretic framework for constructing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-12 Tyler Hanks , Baike She , Matthew Hale , Evan Patterson , Matthew Klawonn , James Fairbanks

We propose a data-driven Model Predictive Control (MPC) framework that employs a transformer encoder to generate multi-step predictions. To handle the nonconvex attention mechanism, we derive difference of convex (DC) representations of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Xingxiao Chen , Mark Cannon

Model Predictive Control (MPC) is widely used in robot control by optimizing a sequence of control outputs over a finite-horizon. Computational approaches for MPC include deterministic methods (e.g., iLQR and COBYLA), as well as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Zhaoxin Li , Xiaoke Wang , Letian Chen , Rohan Paleja , Subramanya Nageshrao , Matthew Gombolay

This comment presents the results of using chance-constrained model predictive control (MPC) to solve a one-horizon benchmark collision avoidance problem.

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Hai Zhu , Javier Alonso-Mora

Tube-based model predictive control (MPC) is one of the principal robust control techniques for constrained linear systems affected by additive disturbances. While tube-based methods with online-computed tubes have been successfully applied…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-27 Jerome Sieber , Alexandre Didier , Melanie N. Zeilinger

Online collision-free trajectory generation within a shared workspace is fundamental for most multi-robot applications. However, many widely-used methods based on model predictive control (MPC) lack theoretical guarantees on the feasibility…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Yuda Chen , Meng Guo , Zhongkui Li

Model Predictive Control (MPC) is a successful control methodology, which is applied to increasingly complex systems. However, real-time feasibility of MPC can be challenging for complex systems, certainly when an (extremely) large number…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-25 S. A. N. Nouwens , B. de Jager , M. M. Paulides , W. P. M. H. Heemels

We show that Funnel MPC, a novel Model Predictive Control (MPC) scheme, allows tracking of smooth reference signals with prescribed performance for nonlinear multi-input multi-output systems of relative degree one with stable internal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-18 Thomas Berger , Dario Dennstädt , Achim Ilchmann , Karl Worthmann

We describe a convex programming approach to the calculation of lower bounds on the minimum cost of constrained decentralized control problems with nonclassical information structures. The class of problems we consider entail the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-05 Weixuan Lin , Eilyan Bitar

Automated vehicles require efficient and safe planning to maneuver in uncertain environments. Largely this uncertainty is caused by other traffic participants, e.g., surrounding vehicles. Future motion of surrounding vehicles is often…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-09 Tim Brüdigam , Michael Olbrich , Dirk Wollherr , Marion Leibold