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Learning effective regularization is crucial for solving ill-posed inverse problems, which arise in a wide range of scientific and engineering applications. While data-driven methods that parameterize regularizers using deep neural networks…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-02-04 Yasi Zhang , Oscar Leong

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

This paper provides a comprehensive tutorial on a family of Model Predictive Control (MPC) formulations, known as MPC for tracking, which are characterized by including an artificial reference as part of the decision variables in the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-10 Pablo Krupa , Johannes Köhler , Antonio Ferramosca , Ignacio Alvarado , Melanie N. Zeilinger , Teodoro Alamo , Daniel Limon

We introduce a general framework for robust data-enabled predictive control (DeePC) for linear time-invariant (LTI) systems. The proposed framework enables us to obtain model-free optimal control for LTI systems based on noisy input/output…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-18 Linbin Huang , Jianzhe Zhen , John Lygeros , Florian Dörfler

Discount regularization, using a shorter planning horizon when calculating the optimal policy, is a popular choice to restrict planning to a less complex set of policies when estimating an MDP from sparse or noisy data (Jiang et al., 2015).…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Sarah Rathnam , Sonali Parbhoo , Weiwei Pan , Susan A. Murphy , Finale Doshi-Velez

We present a novel data-driven model predictive control (MPC) approach to control unknown nonlinear systems using only measured input-output data with closed-loop stability guarantees. Our scheme relies on the data-driven system…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-20 Julian Berberich , Johannes Köhler , Matthias A. Müller , Frank Allgöwer

Periodic operation often emerges as the economically optimal mode in industrial processes, particularly under varying economic or environmental conditions. This paper proposes a robust model predictive control (MPC) framework for uncertain…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-23 Filippo Badalamenti , Jose A. Borja-Conde , Sampath Kumar Mulagaleti , Boris Houska , Alberto Bemporad , Mario Eduardo Villanueva

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

Regularization of control policies using entropy can be instrumental in adjusting predictability of real-world systems. Applications benefiting from such approaches range from, e.g., cybersecurity, which aims at maximal unpredictability, to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-18 Menno van Zutphen , Giannis Delimpaltadakis , Maurice Heemels , Duarte Antunes

In this paper, we consider the problem of periodic optimal control of nonlinear systems subject to online changing and periodically time-varying economic performance measures using model predictive control (MPC). The proposed economic MPC…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-21 Johannes Köhler , Matthias A. Müller , Frank Allgöwer

Model predictive control (MPC) for linear systems with quadratic costs and linear constraints is shown to admit an exact representation as an implicit neural network. A method to "unravel" the implicit neural network of MPC into an explicit…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-19 Ross Drummond , Pablo R Baldivieso-Monasterios , Giorgio Valmorbida

Distributed model predictive control (DMPC) is a flexible and scalable feedback control method applicable to a wide range of systems. While the stability analysis of DMPC is quite well understood, there exist only limited implementation…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-05 Gösta Stomberg , Henrik Ebel , Timm Faulwasser , Peter Eberhard

This paper proposes a novel Kernelized Data-Driven Predictive Control (KDPC) scheme for robust, offset-free tracking of nonlinear systems. Our computationally efficient hybrid approach separates the prediction: (1) kernel ridge regression…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-26 Mahmood Mazare , Hossein Ramezani

We propose a robust data-driven model predictive control (MPC) scheme to control linear time-invariant (LTI) systems. The scheme uses an implicit model description based on behavioral systems theory and past measured trajectories. In…

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

We provide a comprehensive review and practical implementation of a recently developed model predictive control (MPC) framework for controlling unknown systems using only measured data and no explicit model knowledge. Our approach relies on…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-03 Julian Berberich , Johannes Köhler , Matthias A. Müller , Frank Allgöwer

This article addresses the problem of data-driven numerical optimal control for unknown nonlinear systems. In our scenario, we suppose to have the possibility of performing multiple experiments (or simulations) on the system. Experiments…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-19 Marco Borghesi , Lorenzo Sforni , Giuseppe Notarstefano

In the realm of control systems, model predictive control (MPC) has exhibited remarkable potential; however, its reliance on accurate models and substantial computational resources has hindered its broader application, especially within…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-14 Amin Vahidi-Moghaddam , Kaian Chen , Kaixiang Zhang , Zhaojian Li , Yan Wang , Kai Wu

The problem of synthesizing stochastic explicit model predictive control policies is known to be quickly intractable even for systems of modest complexity when using classical control-theoretic methods. To address this challenge, we present…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Ján Drgoňa , Sayak Mukherjee , Aaron Tuor , Mahantesh Halappanavar , Draguna Vrabie

This paper considers the extension of data-enabled predictive control (DeePC) to nonlinear systems via general basis functions. Firstly, we formulate a basis functions DeePC behavioral predictor and we identify necessary and sufficient…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-10 Mircea Lazar

The linear quadratic regulator (LQR) problem is a cornerstone of automatic control, and it has been widely studied in the data-driven setting. The various data-driven approaches can be classified as indirect (i.e., based on an identified…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-09-15 Florian Dörfler , Pietro Tesi , Claudio De Persis