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Model mismatch and process noise are two frequently occurring phenomena that can drastically affect the performance of model predictive control (MPC) in practical applications. We propose a principled way to tune the cost function and the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-24 Riccardo Zuliani , Efe C. Balta , John Lygeros

Flapping-wing micro aerial vehicles offer quieter and safer operation than rotary-wing drones, yet achieving precise autonomous control of bird-scale ornithopters remains challenging: lift, airspeed, and turning authority are tightly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Charbel Toumieh , Jack Zeng , Niel Mistry , Dario Floreano

Flexible cable-driven robotic arms (FCRAs) offer dexterous and compliant motion. Still, the inherent properties of cables, such as resilience, hysteresis, and friction, often lead to particular difficulties in modeling and control. This…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Huayue Liang , Yanbo Chen , Hongyang Cheng , Yanzhao Yu , Shoujie Li , Junbo Tan , Xueqian Wang , Long Zeng

This paper proposes an iterative distributionally robust model predictive control (MPC) scheme to solve a risk-constrained infinite-horizon optimal control problem. In each iteration, the algorithm generates a trajectory from the starting…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-23 Alireza Zolanvari , Ashish Cherukuri

Real-world systems are often characterized by high-dimensional nonlinear dynamics, making them challenging to control in real time. While reduced-order models (ROMs) are frequently employed in model-based control schemes, dimensionality…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-13 John Irvin Alora , Luis A. Pabon , Johannes Köhler , Mattia Cenedese , Ed Schmerling , Melanie N. Zeilinger , George Haller , Marco Pavone

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

Model Predictive Control (MPC) is a powerful method for complex system regulation, but its reliance on an accurate model poses many limitations in real-world applications. Data-driven predictive control (DDPC) aims at overcoming this…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-08 Alessandro Chiuso , Marco Fabris , Valentina Breschi , Simone Formentin

This paper proposes a novel real-time affordable solution to the trajectory tracking control problem for self-driving cars subject to longitudinal and steering angular velocity constraints. To this end, we develop a dual-mode Model…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-06 Cristian Tiriolo , Walter Lucia

In this paper, we revisit the computation of controlled invariant sets for linear discrete-time systems through a trajectory-based viewpoint. We begin by introducing the notion of convex feasible points, which provides a new…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Emmanuel Junior Wafo Wembe , Adnane Saoud

We propose a purely data-driven model predictive control (MPC) scheme to control unknown linear time-invariant systems with guarantees on stability and constraint satisfaction in the presence of noisy data. The scheme predicts future…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-25 Julian Berberich , Johannes Köhler , Matthias A. Müller , Frank Allgöwer

Autonomous vehicles are becoming popular day by day not only for autonomous road traversal but also for industrial automation, farming and military. Most of the standard vehicles follow the Ackermann style steering mechanism. This has…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Shantanu Rahman , Nayeb Hasin , Mainul Islam , Golam Sarowar

A Model Predictive Controller for Tracking is introduced for rendezvous with non-cooperative tumbling targets in active debris removal applications. The target's three-dimensional non-periodic rotational dynamics as well as other state and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-19 Jose Antonio Rebollo , Rafael Vazquez , Ignacio Alvarado , Daniel Limon

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

We show that the explicit realization of data-driven predictive control (DPC) for linear deterministic systems is more tractable than previously thought. To this end, we compare the optimal control problems (OCP) corresponding to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-18 Manuel Klädtke , Dieter Teichrib , Nils Schlüter , Moritz Schulze Darup

This paper presents a novel set-based model predictive control for tracking, which provides the largest domain of attraction, even with the minimal predictive/control horizon. The formulation - which consists of a single optimization…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-20 Alejandro Anderson , Agustina D'Jorge , Alejandro H. González , Antonio Ferramosca , Marcelo Actis

Model-Predictive Control (MPC) is a powerful tool for controlling complex, real-world systems that uses a model to make predictions about future behavior. For each state encountered, MPC solves an online optimization problem to choose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Mohak Bhardwaj , Sanjiban Choudhury , Byron Boots

This paper introduces a novel method for robust output-feedback model predictive control (MPC) for a class of nonlinear discrete-time systems. We propose a novel interval-valued predictor which, given an initial estimate of the state,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-15 Scott Brown , Mohammad Khajenejad , Aamodh Suresh , Sonia Martinez

Learning-based model predictive control (MPC) can enhance control performance by correcting for model inaccuracies, enabling more precise state trajectory predictions than traditional MPC. A common approach is to model unknown residual…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-19 Lars Bartels , Amon Lahr , Andrea Carron , Melanie N. Zeilinger

Model Predictive Control (MPC) is an enabling technology in applications requiring controlling physical processes in an optimized way under constraints on inputs and outputs. However, in MPC closed-loop performance is pushed to the limits…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-06 Dario Piga , Marco Forgione , Simone Formentin , Alberto Bemporad

Trajectory planning for autonomous driving is challenging because the unknown future motion of traffic participants must be accounted for, yielding large uncertainty. Stochastic Model Predictive Control (SMPC)-based planners provide…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-31 Tommaso Benciolini , Michael Fink , Nehir Güzelkaya , Dirk Wollherr , Marion Leibold