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We exploit an adaptive control technique, namely funnel control, in order to establish both initial and recursive feasibility in Model Predictive Control (MPC) for output-constrained nonlinear systems. Moreover, we show that the resulting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-05 Thomas Berger , Carolin Kästner , Karl Worthmann

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

Model-based policy optimization often struggles with inaccurate system dynamics models, leading to suboptimal closed-loop performance. This challenge is especially evident in Model Predictive Control (MPC) policies, which rely on the model…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Riccardo Zuliani , Efe C. Balta , John Lygeros

This paper studies the problem of distributionally robust model predictive control (MPC) using total variation distance ambiguity sets. For a discrete-time linear system with additive disturbances, we provide a conditional value-at-risk…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-27 Anushri Dixit , Mohamadreza Ahmadi , Joel W. Burdick

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 increasingly being considered for control of fast systems and embedded applications. However, the MPC has some significant challenges for such systems. Its high computational complexity results in high…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Eivind Bøhn , Sebastien Gros , Signe Moe , Tor Arne Johansen

Current model-free adaptive control (MFAC) can hardly deal with the time delay problem in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. To solve this problem, a novel model-free adaptive predictive control (MFAPC) method is proposed.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-21 Feilong Zhang

This work investigates the theoretical performance of the alternating-direction method of multipliers (ADMM) as it applies to nonconvex optimization problems, and in particular, problems with nonconvex constraint sets. The alternating…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-16 Stuart M. Harwood

Data-enabled predictive control (DeePC) has emerged as a powerful technique to control complex systems without the need for extensive modeling efforts. However, relying solely on offline collected data trajectories to represent the system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-06 Sebastian Zieglmeier , Mathias Hudoba de Badyn , Narada D. Warakagoda , Thomas R. Krogstad , Paal Engelstad

Despite the numerous uses of semidefinite programming (SDP) and its universal solvability via interior point methods (IPMs), it is rarely applied to practical large-scale problems. This mainly owes to the computational cost of IPMs that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-19 Yifan Ran , Stefan Vlaski , Wei Dai

We present a robust adaptive model predictive control (MPC) framework for nonlinear continuous-time systems with bounded parametric uncertainty and additive disturbance. We utilize general control contraction metrics (CCMs) to parameterize…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-12 András Sasfi , Melanie N. Zeilinger , Johannes Köhler

A key motivation in the development of Distributed Model Predictive Control (DMPC) is to accelerate centralized Model Predictive Control (MPC) for large-scale systems. DMPC has the prospect of scaling well by parallelizing computations…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-16 Gösta Stomberg , Maurice Raetsch , Alexander Engelmann , Timm Faulwasser

Optimization-based approaches such as Model Predictive Control (MPC) are promising approaches in proactive control for safety-critical applications with changing environments such as automated driving systems. However, the computational…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-22 Leila Gharavi , Bart De Schutter , Simone Baldi

This letter considers cascaded model predictive control (MPC) as a computationally lightweight method for controlling a tandem-rotor helicopter. A traditional single MPC structure is split into separate outer and inner-loops. The outer-loop…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-30 Faraaz Ahmed , Ludwik Sobiesiak , James Richard Forbes

Model Predictive Control (MPC) has established itself as the primary methodology for constrained control, enabling autonomy across diverse applications. While model fidelity is crucial in MPC, solving the corresponding optimization problem…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-23 Lukas Schroth , Daniel Morton , Amon Lahr , Daniele Gammelli , Andrea Carron , Marco Pavone

To ensure the system stability of the $\bf{\mathcal{H}_{2}}$-guaranteed cost optimal decentralized control problem (ODC), an approximate semidefinite programming (SDP) problem is formulated based on the sparsity of the gain matrix of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-05 Bo Yang , Xinyuan Zhao , Xudong Li , Defeng Sun

The practical deployment of nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) is often limited by online computation: solving a nonlinear program at high control rates can be expensive on embedded hardware, especially when models are complex or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Mihaela-Larisa Clement , Mónika Farsang , Agnes Poks , Johannes Edelmann , Manfred Plöchl , Radu Grosu , Ezio Bartocci

The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is a powerful algorithm for solving decentralized optimization problems including networked microgrid energy management (NetMEM). However, its performance is highly sensitive to the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-13 Jesus Silva-Rodriguez , Xingpeng Li

Based on equivalent-dynamic-linearization model (EDLM), we propose a kind of model predictive control (MPC) for single-input and single-output (SISO) nonlinear or linear systems. After compensating the EDLM with disturbance for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-13 Feilong Zhang

The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) is a powerful splitting algorithm for linearly constrained convex optimization problems. In view of its popularity and applicability, a growing attention is drawn towards the ADMM in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-08-19 Sedi Bartz , Rubén Campoy , Hung M. Phan