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Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC) is a general and flexible control approach, used in many industrial contexts, and is based on the online solution of a nonlinear optimization problem. This operation requires in general a high…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-06 Carlo Novara , Mattia Boggio , Deborah Volpe

A Learning Model Predictive Controller (LMPC) for iterative tasks is presented. The controller is reference-free and is able to improve its performance by learning from previous iterations. A safe set and a terminal cost function are used…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-12-15 Ugo Rosolia , Francesco Borrelli

This paper proposes a stabilising model predictive control (MPC) scheme with preview information of disturbance for nonlinear systems. The proposed MPC algorithm is able to not only reject disturbance by making use of disturbance preview…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-28 Xing Fang , Wen-Hua Chen

This paper introduces a novel nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) framework that incorporates a lifting technique to enhance control performance for nonlinear systems. While the lifting technique has been widely employed in linear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-15 Nuthasith Gerdpratoom , Fumiya Matsuzaki , Yutaka Yamamoto , Kaoru Yamamoto

This work presents a stochastic tube-based model predictive control framework that guarantees hard input constraint satisfaction for linear systems subject to unbounded additive disturbances. The approach relies on a structured design of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-24 Carlo Karam , Matteo Tacchi , Mirko Fiacchini

In this paper, we study homothetic tube model predictive control (MPC) of discrete-time linear systems subject to bounded additive disturbance and mixed constraints on the state and input. Different from most existing work on robust MPC, we…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-30 Yulong Gao , Shuhao Yan , Jian Zhou , Mark Cannon

This paper presents a distributed model predictive control (DMPC) scheme for nonlinear continuous-time systems. The underlying distributed optimal control problem is cooperatively solved in parallel via a sensitivity-based algorithm. The…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-06-06 Maximilian Pierer von Esch , Andreas Völz , Knut Graichen

This paper proposes a framework for safe reinforcement learning that can handle stochastic nonlinear dynamical systems. We focus on the setting where the nominal dynamics are known, and are subject to additive stochastic disturbances with…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-27 Shuo Li , Osbert Bastani

Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC) is widely used for controlling high-speed robotic systems such as quadrotors. However, its significant computational demands often hinder real-time feasibility and reliability, particularly in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Saber Omidi

We propose an approach to design a Model Predictive Controller (MPC) for constrained Linear Time Invariant systems performing an iterative task. The system is subject to an additive disturbance, and the goal is to learn to satisfy state and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-13 Monimoy Bujarbaruah , Akhil Shetty , Kameshwar Poolla , Francesco Borrelli

A robust model predictive control (MPC) method is presented for linear, time-invariant systems affected by bounded additive disturbances. The main contribution is the offline design of a disturbance-affine feedback gain whereby the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-16 Anilkumar Parsi , Panagiotis Anagnostaras , Andrea Iannelli , Roy S. Smith

This paper presents an approach towards guaranteed trajectory tracking for nonlinear control-affine systems subject to external disturbances based on robust control contraction metrics (CCM) that aims to minimize the $\mathcal L_\infty$…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-07 Pan Zhao , Arun Lakshmanan , Kasey Ackerman , Aditya Gahlawat , Marco Pavone , Naira Hovakimyan

Solving nonlinear model predictive control problems in real time is still an important challenge despite of recent advances in computing hardware, optimization algorithms and tailored implementations. This challenge is even greater when…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-23 Benjamin Karg , Teodoro Alamo , Sergio Lucia

This paper presents a novel robust predictive controller for constrained nonlinear systems that is able to track piece-wise constant setpoint signals. The tracking model predictive controller presented in this paper extends the nonlinear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-21 Marco Polver , Daniel Limon , Fabio Previdi , Antonio Ferramosca

In this work, we propose a novel missile guidance algorithm that combines deep learning based trajectory prediction with nonlinear model predictive control. Although missile guidance and threat interception is a well-studied problem,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-07 A. Sadik Satir , Umut Demir , Gulay Goktas Sever , N. Kemal Ure

Robust model predictive control (MPC) aims to preserve performance under model-plant mismatch, yet robust formulations for nonlinear MPC (NMPC) with data-driven surrogates remain limited. This work proposes an offset-free robust NMPC scheme…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-11-11 Carine Menezes Rebello , Erbet Almeida Costa , Idelfonso B. R. Nogueira

Deterministic model predictive control (MPC), while powerful, is often insufficient for effectively controlling autonomous systems in the real-world. Factors such as environmental noise and model error can cause deviations from the expected…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-07-29 Alex Oshin , Hassan Almubarak , Evangelos A. Theodorou

Ensuring safety and motion consistency for robot navigation in occluded, obstacle-dense environments is a critical challenge. In this context, this study presents an occlusion-aware Consistent Model Predictive Control (CMPC) strategy. To…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Minzhe Zheng , Lei Zheng , Lei Zhu , Jun Ma

We propose a computationally tractable, tube-based robust nonlinear model predictive control (MPC) framework using difference-of-convex (DC) functions and sequential convex programming. For systems with differentiable discrete time…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-03 Martin Doff-Sotta , Zaheen A-Rahman , Mark Cannon

In this paper, we address the problem of designing stochastic model predictive control (SMPC) schemes for linear systems affected by unbounded disturbances. The contribution of the paper is rooted in a measured-state initialization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-04-25 Mirko Fiacchini , Martina Mammarella , Fabrizio Dabbene