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Moving horizon estimation (MHE) offers benefits relative to other estimation approaches by its ability to explicitly handle constraints, but suffers increased computation cost. To help enable MHE on platforms with limited computation power,…
This paper provides an overview of the historical progression of distributed optimization techniques, tracing their development from early duality-based methods pioneered by Dantzig, Wolfe, and Benders in the 1960s to the emergence of the…
The present paper discusses the application of the recently proposed Augmented Lagrangian Alternating Direction Inexact Newton (ALADIN) method to non-convex AC Optimal Power Flow Problems (OPF) in a distributed fashion. In contrast to the…
Distributed optimization has found widespread applications in smart grids, optimal control, and machine learning. This paper studies distributed consensus optimization. We extend the Augmented Lagrangian-based Alternating Direction Inexact…
This work proposes an event-triggered moving horizon estimation (ET-MHE) scheme for general nonlinear systems. The key components of the proposed scheme are a novel event-triggering mechanism (ETM) and the suitable design of the MHE cost…
This paper consists of a tutorial on the Augmented Lagrangian based Alternating Direction Inexact Newton method (ALADIN) and its application to distributed model predictive control (MPC). The focus is - for simplicity of presentation - on…
In this paper, we propose a sample-based moving horizon estimation (MHE) scheme for general nonlinear systems to estimate the current system state using irregularly and/or infrequently available measurements. The cost function of the MHE…
In this paper, we propose a novel Gaussian process-based moving horizon estimation (MHE) framework for unknown nonlinear systems. On the one hand, we approximate the system dynamics by the posterior means of the learned Gaussian processes…
This paper investigates the state estimation problem for linear systems subject to Gaussian noise, where the model parameters are unknown. By formulating and solving an optimization problem that incorporates both offline and online system…
Moving horizon estimation (MHE) is a widely studied state estimation approach in several practical applications. In the MHE problem, the state estimates are obtained via the solution of an approximated nonlinear optimization problem.…
This paper considers a practical scenario where a classical estimation method might have already been implemented on a certain platform when one tries to apply more advanced techniques such as moving horizon estimation (MHE). We are…
This paper introduces an adaptive time splitting technique for the solution of stiff evolutionary PDEs that guarantees an effective error control of the simulation, independent of the fastest physical time scale for highly unsteady…
We propose two variants of the Primal Dual Hybrid Gradient (PDHG) algorithm for saddle point problems with block decomposable duals, hereafter called Multi-Timescale PDHG (MT-PDHG) and its accelerated variant (AMT-PDHG). Through novel…
This paper introduces an open-source software for distributed and decentralized non-convex optimization named ALADIN-$\alpha$. ALADIN-$\alpha$ is a MATLAB implementation of tailored variants of the Augmented Lagrangian Alternating Direction…
High dimensional and/or nonconvex optimization remains a challenging and important problem across a wide range of fields, such as machine learning, data assimilation, and partial differential equation (PDE) constrained optimization. Here we…
This paper investigates algorithms for solving distributed consensus optimization problems that are non-convex. Since Typical ALADIN (Typical Augmented Lagrangian based Alternating Direction Inexact Newton Method, T-ALADIN for short) [1] is…
In approximating solutions of nonstationary problems, various approaches are used to compute the solution at a new time level from a number of simpler (sub-)problems. Among these approaches are splitting methods. Standard splitting schemes…
This article presents a distributed model predictive controller with time-varying partitioning based on the augmented Lagrangian alternating direction inexact Newton method (ALADIN). In particular, we address the problem of controlling the…
The paper deals with state estimation of a spatially distributed system given noisy measurements from pointwise-in-time-and-space threshold sensors spread over the spatial domain of interest. A Maximum A posteriori Probability (MAP)…
We propose a moving horizon estimation scheme for estimating the states and time-varying parameters of nonlinear systems. We consider the case where observability of the parameters depends on the excitation of the system and may be absent…