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We present a computationally tractable framework for real-time predictive control of multi-chiller plants that involve both discrete and continuous control decisions coupled through nonlinear dynamics, resulting in a mixed-integer optimal…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-31 Ján Boldocký , Cary Faulkner , Elad Michael , Martin Gulan , Aaron Tuor , Ján Drgoňa

One of the main challenges in modern control applications, particularly in robot and vehicle motion control, is achieving accurate, fast, and safe movement. To address this, optimal control policies have been developed to enforce safety…

Designing a model predictive control (MPC) scheme that enables a mobile robot to safely navigate through an obstacle-filled environment is a complicated yet essential task in robotics. In this technical report, safety refers to ensuring…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Dennis Benders , Laura Ferranti , Johannes Köhler

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

This work presents an explicit-implicit procedure to compute a model predictive control (MPC) law with guarantees on recursive feasibility and asymptotic stability. The approach combines an offline-trained fully-connected neural network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Steven W. Chen , Tianyu Wang , Nikolay Atanasov , Vijay Kumar , Manfred Morari

With a growing interest in data-driven control techniques, Model Predictive Control (MPC) provides an opportunity to exploit the surplus of data reliably, particularly while taking safety and stability into account. In many real-world and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Mayank Mittal , Marco Gallieri , Alessio Quaglino , Seyed Sina Mirrazavi Salehian , Jan Koutník

The control of complex systems is of critical importance in many branches of science, engineering, and industry. Controlling an unsteady fluid flow is particularly important, as flow control is a key enabler for technologies in energy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Katharina Bieker , Sebastian Peitz , Steven L. Brunton , J. Nathan Kutz , Michael Dellnitz

This paper presents a novel distributed model predictive control (MPC) formulation without terminal cost and a corresponding distributed synthesis approach for distributed linear discrete-time systems with coupled constraints. The proposed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-28 Xiaoyu Liu , Dimos V. Dimarogonas , Changxin Liu , Azita Dabiri , Bart De Schutter

Model predictive control is a powerful tool to generate complex motions for robots. However, it often requires solving non-convex problems online to produce rich behaviors, which is computationally expensive and not always practical in real…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Avadesh Meduri , Huaijiang Zhu , Armand Jordana , Ludovic Righetti

We propose Kernel Predictive Control (KPC), a learning-based predictive control strategy that enjoys deterministic guarantees of safety. Noise-corrupted samples of the unknown system dynamics are used to learn several models through the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-24 Emilio T. Maddalena , Paul Scharnhorst , Yuning Jiang , Colin N. Jones

Vehicle platooning has been shown to be quite fruitful in the transportation industry to enhance fuel economy, road throughput, and driving comfort. Model Predictive Control (MPC) is widely used in literature for platoon control to achieve…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-02 Mohammad Hossein Basiri , Benyamin Ghojogh , Nasser L. Azad , Sebastian Fischmeister , Fakhri Karray , Mark Crowley

In this paper, we present a robust distributed model predictive control (DMPC) scheme for dynamically decoupled nonlinear systems which are subject to state constraints, coupled state constraints and input constraints. In the proposed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-07 Adrian Wiltz , Fei Chen , Dimos V. Dimarogonas

Model Predictive Control (MPC) has been demonstrated to be effective in continuous control tasks. When a world model and a value function are available, planning a sequence of actions ahead of time leads to a better policy. Existing methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Yuhang Wang , Hanwei Guo , Sizhe Wang , Long Qian , Xuguang Lan

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

We consider the problem of optimal trajectory tracking for unknown systems. A novel data-enabled predictive control (DeePC) algorithm is presented that computes optimal and safe control policies using real-time feedback driving the unknown…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-03-19 Jeremy Coulson , John Lygeros , Florian Dörfler

This paper presents MPC-CDF, a new approach integrating control density functions (CDFs) within a model predictive control (MPC) framework to ensure safety-critical control in nonlinear dynamical systems. By using the dual formulation of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-17 Sriram S. K. S. Narayanan , Sajad Ahmadi , Javad Mohammadpour Velni , Umesh Vaidya

This paper investigates adaptive model predictive control (MPC) for a class of constrained linear systems with unknown model parameters. This is also posed as the dual control problem consisting of system identification and regulation. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-24 Kunwu Zhang , Yang Shi

Data-Enabled Predictive Control (DeePC) bypasses the need for system identification by directly leveraging raw data to formulate optimal control policies. However, the size of the optimization problem in DeePC grows linearly with respect to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-12 Yihan Zhou , Yiwen Lu , Zishuo Li , Jiaqi Yan , Yilin Mo

We propose an adaptive Model Predictive Safety Certification (MPSC) scheme for learning-based control of linear systems with bounded disturbances and uncertain parameters where the true parameters are contained within an a priori known set…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-30 Alexandre Didier , Kim P. Wabersich , Melanie N. Zeilinger

We introduce data to predictive control, D2PC, a framework to facilitate the design of robust and predictive controllers from data. The proposed framework is designed for discrete-time stochastic linear systems with output measurements and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Haldun Balim , Andrea Carron , Melanie N. Zeilinger , Johannes Köhler
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