English
Related papers

Related papers: Cafe-Mpc: A Cascaded-Fidelity Model Predictive Con…

200 papers

In this paper, we present a real-time whole-body planner for collision-free legged mobile manipulation. We enforce both self-collision and environment-collision avoidance as soft constraints within a Model Predictive Control (MPC) scheme…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-28 Jia-Ruei Chiu , Jean-Pierre Sleiman , Mayank Mittal , Farbod Farshidian , Marco Hutter

This paper presents an uncertainty compensation-based robust adaptive model predictive control (MPC) framework for linear systems with both matched and unmatched nonlinear uncertainties subject to both state and input constraints. In…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-27 Ran Tao , Pan Zhao , Ilya Kolmanovsky , Naira Hovakimyan

The configuration of most robotic systems lies in continuous transformation groups. However, in mobile robot trajectory tracking, many recent works still naively utilize optimization methods for elements in vector space without considering…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-13 Jiawei Tang , Shuang Wu , Bo Lan , Yahui Dong , Yuqiang Jin , Guangjian Tian , Wen-An Zhang , Ling Shi

This paper proposes a novel tube-based Model Predictive Control (MPC) framework for tracking varying setpoint references with linear systems subject to additive and multiplicative uncertainties. The MPC controllers designed using this…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-10 Filippo Badalamenti , Sampath Kumar Mulagaleti , Alberto Bemporad , Boris Houska , Mario Eduardo Villanueva

Thanks to recent advancements in accelerating non-linear model predictive control (NMPC), it is now feasible to deploy whole-body NMPC at real-time rates for humanoid robots. However, enforcing inequality constraints in real time for such…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Charles Khazoom , Seungwoo Hong , Matthew Chignoli , Elijah Stanger-Jones , Sangbae Kim

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

This paper presents a sample-efficient data-driven method to design model predictive control (MPC) for cable-actuated soft robotics using Bayesian optimization. Instead of modeling the complex dynamics of the soft robots, the proposed…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Anuj Pal , Tianyi He , Wenpeng Wei

While Model Predictive Control (MPC) enforces safety via constraints, its real-time execution can exceed embedded compute budgets. We propose a Barrier-integrated Adaptive Neural Model Predictive Control (BAN-MPC) framework that synergizes…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Kaikai Wang , Tianxun Li , Liang Xu , Qinglei Hu , Keyou You

This paper proposes a cascaded control framework for quadrotor trajectory tracking with formal safety guarantees. First, we design a controller consisting of an outer-loop position model predictive control (MPC) and an inner-loop nonlinear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-08 Ming Gao , Zhanglin Shangguan , Shuo Liu , Liang Wu , Bo Yang , Wei Xiao

Tight performance specifications in combination with operational constraints make model predictive control (MPC) the method of choice in various industries. As the performance of an MPC controller depends on a sufficiently accurate…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-09 Kim P. Wabersich , Melanie N. Zeilinger

In this paper, we present a robust adaptive model predictive control (MPC) scheme for linear systems subject to parametric uncertainty and additive disturbances. The proposed approach provides a computationally efficient formulation with…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-12 Johannes Köhler , Elisa Andina , Raffaele Soloperto , Matthias A. Müller , Frank Allgöwer

This paper proposes a real-time model predictive control (MPC) scheme to execute multiple tasks using robots over a finite-time horizon. In industrial robotic applications, we must carefully consider multiple constraints for avoiding joint…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Jaemin Lee , Mingyo Seo , Andrew Bylard , Robert Sun , Luis Sentis

We develop a tracking model predictive control (MPC) scheme for nonlinear systems using the linearized dynamics at the current state as a prediction model. Under reasonable assumptions on the linearized dynamics, we prove that the proposed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-20 Julian Berberich , Johannes Köhler , Matthias A. Müller , Frank Allgöwer

This paper presents a state-of-the-art optimal controller for quadruped locomotion. The robot dynamics is represented using a single rigid body (SRB) model. A linear time-varying model predictive controller (LTV MPC) is proposed by using…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Andrew Zheng , Sriram S. K. S Narayanan

Control of legged robots is a challenging problem that has been investigated by different approaches, such as model-based control and learning algorithms. This work proposes a novel Imitating and Finetuning Model Predictive Control (IFM)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Donghoon Youm , Hyunyoung Jung , Hyeongjun Kim , Jemin Hwangbo , Hae-Won Park , Sehoon Ha

The paper develops a Model Predictive Controller for constrained control of spacecraft attitude with reaction wheel actuators. The controller exploits a special formulation of the cost with the reference governor like term, a low complexity…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-01-20 Alberto Guiggiani , Ilya Kolmanovsky , Panagiotis Patrinos , Alberto Bemporad

In this paper we present a framework for risk-sensitive model predictive control (MPC) of linear systems affected by stochastic multiplicative uncertainty. Our key innovation is to consider a time-consistent, dynamic risk evaluation of the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-26 Sumeet Singh , Yin-Lam Chow , Anirudha Majumdar , Marco Pavone

Robotic tasks which involve uncertainty--due to variation in goal, environment configuration, or confidence in task model--may require human input to instruct or adapt the robot. In tasks with physical contact, several existing methods for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Kevin Haninger , Christian Hegeler , Luka Peternel

Model predictive control (MPC) has shown great success for controlling complex systems such as legged robots. However, when closing the loop, the performance and feasibility of the finite horizon optimal control problem (OCP) solved at each…

This paper presents a scalable multi-robot motion planning algorithm called Conflict-Based Model Predictive Control (CB-MPC). Inspired by Conflict-Based Search (CBS), the planner leverages a similar high-level conflict tree to efficiently…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Ardalan Tajbakhsh , Lorenz T. Biegler , Aaron M. Johnson