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This work proposes a novel robust model predictive control (MPC) algorithm for linear systems affected by dynamic model uncertainty and exogenous disturbances. The uncertainty is modeled using a linear fractional perturbation structure with…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-10 Anilkumar Parsi , Andrea Iannelli , Roy S. Smith

For motion planning and control of autonomous vehicles to be proactive and safe, pedestrians' and other road users' motions must be considered. In this paper, we present a vehicle motion planning and control framework, based on Model…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Ivo Batkovic , Mario Zanon , Mohammad Ali , Paolo Falcone

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

Chance constraints are widely used in stochastic model predictive control (MPC) to enforce probabilistic state and input constraints in the presence of unbounded disturbances. However, they only restrict violation probabilities and do not…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-14 Jonas Schießl , Ruchuan Ou , Michael H. Baumann , Timm Faulwasser , Lars Grüne

Safety in obstacle avoidance is critical for autonomous driving. While model predictive control (MPC) is widely used, simplified prediction models such as linearized or single-track vehicle models introduce discrepancies between predicted…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Shiming Fang , Xilin Li , Changzhi Wu , Kaiyan Yu

Many real-world multi-agent systems exhibit nonlinear dynamics and complex inter-agent interactions. As these systems increase in scale, the main challenges arise from achieving scalability and handling nonconvexity. To address these…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-22 Taehyun Yoon , Augustinos D. Saravanos , Evangelos A. Theodorou

This paper proposes a stochastic model predictive control method for linear systems affected by additive Gaussian disturbances that optimizes over disturbance feedback matrices online. Closed-loop satisfaction of probabilistic constraints…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-03 Marcell Bartos , Alexandre Didier , Jerome Sieber , Johannes Köhler , Melanie N. Zeilinger

This work proposes a finite-horizon optimal control strategy to solve the tracking problem while providing avoidance features to the closed-loop system. Inspired by the set-point tracking model predictive control (MPC) framework, the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-17 Marcelo A. Santos , Antonio Ferramosca , Guilherme V. Raffo

Model Predictive Control (MPC) of an unknown system that is modelled by Gaussian Process (GP) techniques is studied in this paper. Using GP, the variances computed during the modelling and inference processes allow us to take model…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Gang Cao , Edmund M-K Lai , Fakhrul Alam

We propose a Model Predictive Control (MPC) for collision avoidance between an autonomous agent and dynamic obstacles with uncertain predictions. The collision avoidance constraints are imposed by enforcing positive distance between convex…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Siddharth H. Nair , Eric H. Tseng , Francesco Borrelli

In this paper, we present a robust adaptive model predictive control (MPC) scheme for linear systems subject to parametric uncertainty and additive disturbances. The proposed approach provides a computationally efficient formulation with…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-12 Johannes Köhler , Elisa Andina , Raffaele Soloperto , Matthias A. Müller , Frank Allgöwer

This work introduces a formulation of model predictive control (MPC) which adaptively reasons about the complexity of the model based on the task while maintaining feasibility and stability guarantees. Existing MPC implementations often…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Joseph Norby , Ardalan Tajbakhsh , Yanhao Yang , Aaron M. Johnson

As robotic systems move from highly structured environments to open worlds, incorporating uncertainty from dynamics learning or state estimation into the control pipeline is essential for robust performance. In this paper we present a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-14 Robert Dyro , James Harrison , Apoorva Sharma , Marco Pavone

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

We present a decentralized minimum-time trajectory optimization scheme based on learning model predictive control for multi-agent systems with nonlinear decoupled dynamics and coupled state constraints. By performing the same task…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-21 Edward L. Zhu , Yvonne R. Stürz , Ugo Rosolia , Francesco Borrelli

This paper develops a data-driven learning framework for approximating the feasible region and invariant set of a nonlinear system under the nonlinear Model Predictive Control (MPC) scheme. The developed approach is based on the feasibility…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-16 Yuanqiang Zhou , Dewei Li , Yugeng Xi , Yunwen Xu

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

Stochastic Model Predictive Control addresses uncertainties by incorporating chance constraints that provide probabilistic guarantees of constraint satisfaction. However, simultaneously optimizing over the risk allocation and the feedback…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-07 Filipe Marques Barbosa , Johan Löfberg

This paper studies the problem of risk-averse receding horizon motion planning for agents with uncertain dynamics, in the presence of stochastic, dynamic obstacles. We propose a model predictive control (MPC) scheme that formulates the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-02 Anushri Dixit , Mohamadreza Ahmadi , Joel W. Burdick