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This paper is about a real-time model predictive control (MPC) algorithm for large-scale, structured linear systems with polytopic state and control constraints. The proposed controller receives the current state measurement as an input and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-19 Yuning Jiang , Juraj Oravec , Boris Houska , Michal Kvasnica

Modern, torque-controlled service robots can regulate contact forces when interacting with their environment. Model Predictive Control (MPC) is a powerful method to solve the underlying control problem, allowing to plan for whole-body…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Maria Vittoria Minniti , Ruben Grandia , Kevin Fäh , Farbod Farshidian , Marco Hutter

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

Periodic operation often emerges as the economically optimal mode in industrial processes, particularly under varying economic or environmental conditions. This paper proposes a robust model predictive control (MPC) framework for uncertain…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-23 Filippo Badalamenti , Jose A. Borja-Conde , Sampath Kumar Mulagaleti , Boris Houska , Alberto Bemporad , Mario Eduardo Villanueva

This paper investigates the problem of robust model predictive control (RMPC) of linear-time-invariant (LTI) discrete-time systems subject to structured uncertainty and bounded disturbances. Typically, the constrained RMPC problem with…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-18 Anastasis Georgiou , Furqan Tahir , Imad M. Jaimoukha , Simos A. Evangelou

In this paper, we propose a new model predictive control (MPC) formulation for autonomous driving. The novelty of our MPC stems from the following results. Firstly, we adopt an alternating minimization approach wherein linear velocities and…

In this paper, a safe and learning-based control framework for model predictive control (MPC) is proposed to optimize nonlinear systems with a non-differentiable objective function under uncertain environmental disturbances. The control…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Lei Zheng , Rui Yang , Zhixuan Wu , Jiesen Pan , Hui Cheng

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

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

The recent increase in data availability and reliability has led to a surge in the development of learning-based model predictive control (MPC) frameworks for robot systems. Despite attaining substantial performance improvements over their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Kong Yao Chee , Thales C. Silva , M. Ani Hsieh , George J. Pappas

Model Predictive Control (MPC) offers rigorous safety and performance guarantees but is computationally intensive. Approximate MPC (AMPC) aims to circumvent this drawback by learning a computationally cheaper surrogate policy. Common…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-19 Elias Milios , Kim P. Wabersich , Felix Berkel , Felix Gruber , Melanie N. Zeilinger

Recently, suboptimality estimates for model predictive controllers (MPC) have been derived for the case without additional stabilizing endpoint constraints or a Lyapunov function type endpoint weight. The proposed methods yield a posteriori…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Thomas Jahn , Jürgen Pannek

In this paper, we present a data-driven distributed model predictive control (MPC) scheme to stabilise the origin of dynamically coupled discrete-time linear systems subject to decoupled input constraints. The local optimisation problems…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-14 Matthias Köhler , Julian Berberich , Matthias A. Müller , Frank Allgöwer

Economic model predictive control (EMPC) is a promising methodology for optimal operation of dynamical processes that has been shown to improve process economics considerably. However, EMPC performance relies heavily on the accuracy of the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-10 Khalid Alhazmi , Fahad Albalawi , S. Mani Sarathy

This paper proposes an Adaptive Stochastic Model Predictive Control (MPC) strategy for stable linear time-invariant systems in the presence of bounded disturbances. We consider multi-input, multi-output systems that can be expressed by a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-11 Monimoy Bujarbaruah , Charlott Vallon

Model predictive control (MPC) is a powerful tool for planning and controlling dynamical systems due to its capacity for handling constraints and taking advantage of preview information. Nevertheless, MPC performance is highly dependent on…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-19 Mohammad Abtahi , Mahdis Rabbani , Shima Nazari

We propose a stochastic MPC scheme using an optimization over the initial state for the predicted trajectory. Considering linear discrete-time systems under unbounded additive stochastic disturbances subject to chance constraints, we use…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-19 Henning Schlüter , Frank Allgöwer

This paper addresses the trajectory-tracking problem for discrete-time linear time-invariant systems with bounded parametric uncertainty, subject to hard constraints on system states, control inputs, and input rates. Unlike existing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-07 Bishal Dey , Abhishek Dhar , Sumit kr. Pandey , Anindita Sengupta

A new adaptive predictive controller for constrained linear systems is presented. The main feature of the proposed controller is the partition of the input in two components. The first part is used to persistently excite the system, in…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-04-23 Bernardo A. Hernandez , Paul A. Trodden

In this paper, we present a nonlinear robust model predictive control (MPC) framework for general (state and input dependent) disturbances. This approach uses an online constructed tube in order to tighten the nominal (state and input)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-05 Johannes Köhler , Raffaele Soloperto , Matthias A. Müller , Frank Allgöwer