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Model Predictive Control (MPC) is a successful control methodology, which is applied to increasingly complex systems. However, real-time feasibility of MPC can be challenging for complex systems, certainly when an (extremely) large number…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-25 S. A. N. Nouwens , B. de Jager , M. M. Paulides , W. P. M. H. Heemels

Navigating mobile robots through environments shared with humans is challenging. From the perspective of the robot, humans are dynamic obstacles that must be avoided. These obstacles make the collision-free space nonconvex, which leads to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-15 O. de Groot , L. Ferranti , D. Gavrila , J. Alonso-Mora

Ensuring safety in autonomous vehicles necessitates advanced path planning and obstacle avoidance capabilities, particularly in dynamic environments. This paper introduces a bi-level control framework that efficiently augments road…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Mostafa Emam , Matthias Gerdts

We propose a data-driven tracking model predictive control (MPC) scheme to control unknown discrete-time linear time-invariant systems. The scheme uses a purely data-driven system parametrization to predict future trajectories based on…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-19 Julian Berberich , Johannes Köhler , Matthias A. Müller , Frank Allgöwer

We propose a robust adaptive Model Predictive Control (MPC) strategy with online set-based estimation for constrained linear systems with unknown parameters and bounded disturbances. A sample-based test applied to predicted trajectories is…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-09 Xiaonan Lu , Mark Cannon

This study deals with the problem of task and motion planning of autonomous systems within the context of high-level tasks. Specifically, a task comprises logical requirements (conjunctions, disjunctions, and negations) on the trajectories…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-20 Zhou He , Shilong Yuan , Ning Ran , Dimitri Lefebvre

Forecasting the future trajectories of surrounding agents is crucial for autonomous vehicles to ensure safe, efficient, and comfortable route planning. While model ensembling has improved prediction accuracy in various fields, its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Aron Distelzweig , Eitan Kosman , Andreas Look , Faris Janjoš , Denesh K. Manivannan , Abhinav Valada

Local learning, which trains a network through layer-wise local targets and losses, has been studied as an alternative to backpropagation (BP) in neural computation. However, its algorithms often become more complex or require additional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Satoki Ishikawa , Rio Yokota , Ryo Karakida

Control of machine learning models has emerged as an important paradigm for a broad range of robotics applications. In this paper, we present a sampling-based nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) approach for control of neural network…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Iman Askari , Babak Badnava , Thomas Woodruff , Shen Zeng , Huazhen Fang

We present a robust adaptive model predictive control (MPC) framework for nonlinear continuous-time systems with bounded parametric uncertainty and additive disturbance. We utilize general control contraction metrics (CCMs) to parameterize…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-12 András Sasfi , Melanie N. Zeilinger , Johannes Köhler

In this work, we consider the problem of decentralized multi-robot target tracking and obstacle avoidance in dynamic environments. Each robot executes a local motion planning algorithm which is based on model predictive control (MPC). The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Rahul Tallamraju , Sujit Rajappa , Michael Black , Kamalakar Karlapalem , Aamir Ahmad

This study presents a dynamic safety margin-based reinforcement learning framework for local motion planning in dynamic and uncertain environments. The proposed planner integrates real-time trajectory optimization with adaptive gap…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Tengfei Liu , Haoyang Zhong , Jiazheng Hu , Tan Zhang

This work extends our prior work on the distributed nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) for navigating a robot fleet following a certain flocking behavior in unknown obstructed environments with a more realistic local obstacle…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Nuthasith Gerdpratoom , Kaoru Yamamoto

This paper presents an efficient suboptimal model predictive control (MPC) algorithm for nonlinear switched systems subject to minimum dwell time constraints (MTC). While MTC are required for most physical systems due to stability, power…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-16 Yutao Chen , Mircea Lazar

In this paper, we present a novel method to drive a nonlinear system to a desired state, with limited a priori knowledge of its dynamic model: local dynamics at a single point and the bounds on the rate of change of these dynamics. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-08 Yiming Meng , Taha Shafa , Jesse Wei , Melkior Ornik

Robust optimal or min-max model predictive control (MPC) approaches aim to guarantee constraint satisfaction over a known, bounded uncertainty set while minimizing a worst-case performance bound. Traditionally, these methods compute a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-04 J. Wehbeh , E. C. Kerrigan

In safety-critical robot planning or control, manually specifying safety constraints or learning them from demonstrations can be challenging. In this article, we propose a certifiable alignment method for a robot to learn a safety…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Zhixian Xie , Wenlong Zhang , Yi Ren , Zhaoran Wang , George J. Pappas , Wanxin Jin

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

Large-scale ride-hailing systems often combine real-time routing at the individual request level with a macroscopic Model Predictive Control (MPC) optimization for dynamic pricing and vehicle relocation. The MPC relies on a demand forecast…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Enpeng Yuan , Pascal Van Hentenryck

This paper proposes an Adaptive Learning Model Predictive Control strategy for uncertain constrained linear systems performing iterative tasks. The additive uncertainty is modeled as the sum of a bounded process noise and an unknown…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-04-27 Monimoy Bujarbaruah , Xiaojing Zhang , Ugo Rosolia , Francesco Borrelli