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Technology advancement for on-road vehicles has gained significant momentum in the past decades, particularly in the field of vehicle automation and powertrain electrification. The optimization of powertrain controls for autonomous vehicles…
Production high-performance computing systems continue to grow in complexity and size. As applications struggle to make use of increasingly heterogeneous compute nodes, maintaining high efficiency (performance per watt) for the whole…
This paper introduces a novel approach in designing prediction horizons on a generalized predictive control for a DC/DC boost converter. This method involves constructing a closed-loop system model and assessing the impact of different…
Underactuated systems pose the challenge of being able to control a plant whose degrees of freedom are not necessarily directly linked to an actuator or where such a relationship is not straightforward. Rotary inverted pendulum is an…
We present a novel data-driven nested optimization framework that addresses the problem of coupling between plant and controller optimization. This optimization strategy is tailored towards instances where a closed-form expression for the…
We propose two new optimistic planning algorithms for nonlinear hybrid-input systems, in which the input has both a continuous and a discrete component, and the discrete component must respect a dwell-time constraint. Both algorithms select…
Traffic congestion has lead to an increasing emphasis on management measures for a more efficient utilization of existing infrastructure. In this context, this paper proposes a novel framework that integrates real-time optimization of…
We introduce a novel algorithm for the task of coherently controlling a quantum mechanical system to implement any chosen unitary dynamics. It performs faster than existing state of the art methods by one to three orders of magnitude…
Hybrid power trains (HPT) run on multiple energy sources, often involving energy storage systems/batteries (ESS). As a result, the risk of battery degradation and the reliability of energy storage elements pose a major challenge in…
Actuator faults heavily affect the performance and stability of control systems, an issue that is even more critical for systems required to operate autonomously under adverse environmental conditions, such as unmanned vehicles. To this…
Despite the extensive application of nonlinear Model Predictive Control (MPC) in automated driving, balancing its computational efficiency with respect to the control performance and constraint satisfaction remains a challenge in emergency…
We consider optimal distributed controller synthesis for an interconnected system subject to communication constraints, in linear quadratic settings. Motivated by the problem of finite heavy duty vehicle platooning, we study systems…
This paper introduces a continuous-time constrained nonlinear control scheme which implements a model predictive control strategy as a continuous-time dynamic system. The approach is based on the idea that the solution of the optimal…
Disturbances may create cascading failures in power systems and lead to widespread blackouts. Controlled islanding is an effective approach to mitigate cascading failures by partitioning the power system into a set of disjoint islands. To…
This paper deals with the development and analysis of novel time-optimal point-to-point model predictive control concepts for nonlinear systems. Recent approaches in the literature apply a time transformation, however, which do not maintain…
In this paper, we aim at developing computationally tractable methods for nonlinear model/controller reduction. Recently, model reduction by generalized differential (GD) balancing has been proposed for nonlinear systems with constant…
This article presents an eco-driving algorithm for electric vehicles featuring multi-speed transmissions. The proposed controller is formulated as a co-optimization problem, simultaneously optimizing both vehicle longitudinal speed and…
Cooperative and Adaptive Cruise Control (CACC) is widely focused to enhance driving fuel-efficiency by maintaining a close following gap. The ecology of CACC could be further enhanced by adapting to the rolling terrain. However, current…
We present a novel strategy for robust dual control of linear time-invariant systems based on gain scheduling with performance guarantees. This work relies on prior results of determining uncertainty bounds of system parameters estimated…
Simulation and control of the transient flow in natural gas networks involve solving partial differential equations (PDEs). This paper proposes a semi-analytical solutions (SAS) approach for fast and accurate simulation of the natural gas…