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In this paper, we propose, discuss, and validate an online Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC) method for multi-rotor aerial systems with arbitrarily positioned and oriented rotors which simultaneously addresses the local reference…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Davide Bicego , Jacopo Mazzetto , Ruggero Carli , Marcello Farina , Antonio Franchi

Nonlinear optimization-based control policies, such as those those arising in nonlinear Model Predictive Control, have seen remarkable success in recent years. These policies require solving computationally demanding nonlinear optimization…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Riccardo Zuliani , Efe C. Balta , John Lygeros

The optimization of process economics within the model predictive control (MPC) formulation has given rise to a new control paradigm known as economic MPC (EMPC). Several authors have discussed the closed-loop properties of EMPC-controlled…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-01 Pantelis Sopasakis , Domagoj Herceg , Panagiotis Patrinos , Alberto Bemporad

We study unconstrained and constrained linear quadratic problems and investigate the suboptimality of the model predictive control (MPC) method applied to such problems. Considering MPC as an approximate scheme for solving the related fixed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-06-06 Yuchao Li , Aren Karapetyan , John Lygeros , Karl H. Johansson , Jonas Mårtensson

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

Model Predictive Control (MPC) is a popular technology to operate industrial systems. It refers to a class of control algorithms that use an explicit model of the system to obtain the control action by minimizing a cost function. At each…

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Model predictive control (MPC) has proven useful in enabling safe and optimal motion planning for autonomous vehicles. In this paper, we investigate how to achieve MPC-based motion planning when a neural state-space model represents the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Iman Askari , Ali Vaziri , Xuemin Tu , Shen Zeng , Huazhen Fang

Handling model mismatch is a common challenge in model predictive control (MPC). While robust MPC is effective, its conservatism often makes it less desirable. Certainty-equivalence MPC (CE-MPC), which uses a nominal model, offers an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Changrui Liu , Shengling Shi , Bart De Schutter

Model predictive control (MPC) has become one of the well-established modern control methods for three-phase inverters with an output LC filter, where a high-quality voltage with low total harmonic distortion (THD) is needed. Although it is…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Ihab S. Mohamed , Stefano Rovetta , Ton Duc Do , Tomislav Dragicevic , Ahmed A. Zaki Diab

Model-based policy optimization often struggles with inaccurate system dynamics models, leading to suboptimal closed-loop performance. This challenge is especially evident in Model Predictive Control (MPC) policies, which rely on the model…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-21 Riccardo Zuliani , Efe C. Balta , John Lygeros

Various efforts have been devoted to developing stabilizing distributed Model Predictive Control (MPC) schemes for tracking piecewise constant references. In these schemes, terminal sets are usually computed offline and used in the MPC…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-29 Ahmed Aboudonia , Annika Eichler , Francesco Cordiano , Goran Banjac , John Lygeros

We present differentiable predictive control (DPC) as a deep learning-based alternative to the explicit model predictive control (MPC) for unknown nonlinear systems. In the DPC framework, a neural state-space model is learned from…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-27 Jan Drgona , Karol Kis , Aaron Tuor , Draguna Vrabie , Martin Klauco

We investigate the suboptimality resulting from the application of nominal model predictive control (MPC) to a nonlinear discrete time stochastic system. The suboptimality is defined with respect to the corresponding stochastic optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-14 Florian Messerer , Katrin Baumgärtner , Sergio Lucia , Moritz Diehl

Advances in machine learning and the growing trend towards effortless data generation in real-world systems has led to an increasing interest for data-inferred models and data-based control in robotics. It seems appealing to govern robots…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-05 Mario Rosenfelder , Lea Bold , Hannes Eschmann , Peter Eberhard , Karl Worthmann , Henrik Ebel

In this article, a model predictive control (MPC) method is proposed for constrained linear systems to track bounded references with arbitrary dynamics. Besides control inputs to be determined, artificial reference is introduced as…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-27 Shibo Han , Bonan Hou , Yuhao Zhang , Xiaotong Shi , Xingwei Zhao

In real-world problems, uncertainties (e.g., errors in the measurement, precision errors) often lead to poor performance of numerical algorithms when not explicitly taken into account. This is also the case for control problems, where…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-12-18 Carlos Ignacio Hernández Castellanos , Sina Ober-Blöbaum , Sebastian Peitz

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 propose a distributed model predictive control (MPC) framework for coordinating heterogeneous, nonlinear multi-agent systems under individual and coupling constraints. The cooperative task is encoded as a shared objective function…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-11 Matthias Köhler , Matthias A. Müller , Frank Allgöwer

In this paper, a novel tube-based economic Model Predictive Control (MPC) scheme for uncertain systems that uses neither terminal costs nor terminal constraints is investigated. We show that the results from the undisturbed case can be…

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