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This paper proposes tackling safety-critical stochastic Reinforcement Learning (RL) tasks with a sample-based, model-based approach. At the core of the method lies a Model Predictive Control (MPC) scheme that acts as function approximation,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-30 Filippo Airaldi , Bart De Schutter , Azita Dabiri

This tutorial consists of a brief introduction to the modern control approach called model predictive control (MPC) and its numerical implementation using MATLAB. We discuss the basic concepts and numerical implementation of the two major…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-04 Midhun T. Augustine

Model Predictive Controllers (MPC) are widely used for controlling cyber-physical systems. It is an iterative process of optimizing the prediction of the future states of a robot over a fixed time horizon. MPCs are effective in practice,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Aravindakumar Vijayasri Mohan Kumar

A Learning Model Predictive Controller (LMPC) is presented and tailored to platooning and Connected Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) applications. The proposed controller builds on previous work on nonlinear LMPC, adapting its architecture and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-09 Hassan Jafarzadeh , Cody Fleming

This paper proposes an offline control algorithm, called Recurrent Model Predictive Control (RMPC), to solve large-scale nonlinear finite-horizon optimal control problems. It can be regarded as an explicit solver of traditional Model…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-11 Zhengyu Liu , Jingliang Duan , Wenxuan Wang , Shengbo Eben Li , Yuming Yin , Ziyu Lin , Bo Cheng

Model predictive control (MPC) is capable of controlling nonlinear systems with guaranteed constraint satisfaction and stability. However, MPC requires solving optimization problems online periodically, which often exceeds the local…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-29 Alexander Gräfe , Sebastian Trimpe

This paper deals with the analysis and synthesis of a model predictive control (MPC) strategy used in connection with level control in conically shaped industrial liquid storage tanks. The MPC is based on a dynamical non-linear model…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-10-03 Martin Klaučo , Ľuboš Čirka

Model predictive control (MPC) is an optimal control method that predicts the future states of the system being controlled and estimates the optimal control inputs that drive the predicted states to the required reference. The computations…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-05 Eslam Mostafa , Hussein A. Aly , Ahmed Elliethy

A significant challenge in the development of control systems for diesel airpath applications is to tune the controller parameters to achieve satisfactory output performance, especially whilst adhering to input and safety constraints in the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Gokul S. Sankar , Rohan C. Shekhar , Chris Manzie , Takeshi Sano , Hayato Nakada

Ensuring safety in the sense of constraint satisfaction for learning-based control is a critical challenge, especially in the model-free case. While safety filters address this challenge in the model-based setting by modifying unsafe…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-15 Kanghui He , Shengling Shi , Ton van den Boom , Bart De Schutter

In this paper, we leverage the rapid advances in imitation learning, a topic of intense recent focus in the Reinforcement Learning (RL) literature, to develop new sample complexity results and performance guarantees for data-driven Model…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-18 Kwangjun Ahn , Zakaria Mhammedi , Horia Mania , Zhang-Wei Hong , Ali Jadbabaie

The expansion in automation of increasingly fast applications and low-power edge devices poses a particular challenge for optimization based control algorithms, like model predictive control. Our proposed machine-learning supported approach…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-08 Hendrik Alsmeier , Anton Savchenko , Rolf Findeisen

We develop a three-component Model Predictive Control (MPC) algorithm to achieve output-reference tracking with prescribed performance for continuous-time nonlinear systems. One component is so-called funnel MPC, which achieves reference…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-02-18 Lukas Lanza , Dario Dennstädt , Thomas Berger , Karl Worthmann

We propose a novel robust Model Predictive Control (MPC) scheme for nonlinear multi-input multi-output systems of relative degree one with stable internal dynamics. The proposed algorithm is a combination of funnel MPC, i.e., MPC with a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-12-13 Thomas Berger , Dario Dennstädt , Lukas Lanza , Karl Worthmann

Model Predictive Control (MPC) is a widely known control method that has proved to be particularly effective in multivariable and constrained control. Closed-loop stability and recursive feasibility can be guaranteed by employing accurate…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-05 Marco Polver , Daniel Limon , Fabio Previdi , Antonio Ferramosca

Model Predictive Control (MPC) provides an optimal control solution based on a cost function while allowing for the implementation of process constraints. As a model-based optimal control technique, the performance of MPC strongly depends…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-11 David C. Gordon , Alexander Winkler , Julian Bedei , Patrick Schaber , Jakob Andert , Charles R. Koch

A centralized model predictive controller (MPC), which is unaware of local uncertainties, for an affine discrete time nonlinear system is presented. The local uncertainties are assumed to be matched, bounded and structured. In order to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-15 Prabhat K. Mishra , Tixian Wang , Mattia Gazzola , Girish Chowdhary

Despite the success of model predictive control (MPC), its application to high-dimensional systems, such as flexible structures and coupled fluid/rigid-body systems, remains a largely open challenge due to excessive computational…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-05-03 Joseph Lorenzetti , Benoit Landry , Sumeet Singh , Marco Pavone

Model Predictive Control (MPC) is a powerful strategy for constrained multivariable systems but faces computational challenges in real-time deployment due to its online optimization requirements. While explicit MPC and neural network…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-18 Jiayang Ren , Qiangqiang Mao , Tianwei Zhao , Yankai Cao

In many specific scenarios, accurate and effective system identification is a commonly encountered challenge in the model predictive control (MPC) formulation. As a consequence, the overall system performance could be significantly weakened…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Jun Ma , Zilong Cheng , Wenxin Wang , Abdullah Al Mamun , Clarence W. de Silva , Tong Heng Lee