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Model Predictive Control (MPC) offers a versatile framework for constraint handling and multi-objective optimisation, yet practical application faces challenges regarding initial and recursive feasibility, robustness against model…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Dario Dennstädt

This research introduces a multi-horizon contingency model predictive control (CMPC) framework in which classes of robust MPC (RMPC) algorithms are combined with classes of learning-based MPC (LB-MPC) algorithms to enable safe learning. We…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-30 Merlijne Geurts , Tren Baltussen , Alexander Katriniok , Maurice Heemels

In control system networks, reconfiguration of the controller when agents are leaving or joining the network is still an open challenge, in particular when operation constraints that depend on each agent's behavior must be met. Drawing our…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-05 Danilo Saccani , Lorenzo Fagiano , Melanie N. Zeilinger , Andrea Carron

We present a stochastic model predictive control (MPC) method for linear discrete-time systems subject to possibly unbounded and correlated additive stochastic disturbance sequences. Chance constraints are treated in analogy to robust MPC…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Lukas Hewing , Kim P. Wabersich , Melanie N. Zeilinger

In this paper we present a model predictive control (MPC) approach to optimize vehicle scheduling and routing in an autonomous mobility-on-demand (AMoD) system. In AMoD systems, robotic, self-driving vehicles transport customers within an…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Rick Zhang , Federico Rossi , Marco Pavone

In this work we address the problem of performing a repetitive task when we have uncertain observations and dynamics. We formulate this problem as an iterative infinite horizon optimal control problem with output feedback. Previously, this…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-04 Lukas Brunke , Siqi Zhou , Angela P. Schoellig

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

Sampling-based Model Predictive Control (MPC) has been a practical and effective approach in many domains, notably model-based reinforcement learning, thanks to its flexibility and parallelizability. Despite its appealing empirical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Zeji Yi , Chaoyi Pan , Guanqi He , Guannan Qu , Guanya Shi

Autonomous mobile manipulation offers a dual advantage of mobility provided by a mobile platform and dexterity afforded by the manipulator. In this paper, we present a whole-body optimal control framework to jointly solve the problems of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Maria Vittoria Minniti , Farbod Farshidian , Ruben Grandia , Marco Hutter

We introduce a general framework, based on collision models and discrete CP-maps, to describe on an equal footing coherent and measurement-based feedback control of quantum mechanical systems. We apply our framework to prominent tasks in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-23 Alfred Harwood , Matteo Brunelli , Alessio Serafini

Task and Motion Planning has made great progress in solving hard sequential manipulation problems. However, a gap between such planning formulations and control methods for reactive execution remains. In this paper we propose a model…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-23 Marc Toussaint , Jason Harris , Jung-Su Ha , Danny Driess , Wolfgang Hönig

This paper is concerned with the design of cooperative distributed Model Predictive Control (MPC) for linear systems. Motivated by the special structure of the distributed models in some existing literature, we propose to apply a state…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-06-20 He Kong , Stefano Longo , Gabriele Pannocchia , Efstathios Siampis , Lilantha Samaranayake

Industrial manipulators are normally operated in cluttered environments, making safe motion planning important. Furthermore, the presence of model-uncertainties make safe motion planning more difficult. Therefore, in practice the speed is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Bernhard Wullt , Johannes Köhler , Per Mattsson , Mikeal Norrlöf , Thomas B. Schön

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) of hybrid dynamical systems is challenging because the associated optimization problem is nonsmooth and the resulting feedback law is discontinuous. This paper develops real-time MPC algorithms for nonlinear…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Armin Nurkanović , Anton Pozharskiy , Moritz Diehl

Active feedback stabilization of the dominant resistive wall mode (RWM) for an ITER H-mode scenario at high plasma pressure using infinite-horizon model predictive control (MPC) is presented. The MPC approach is closely-related to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-17 Samo Gerksic , Bostjan Pregelj , Marco Ariola

Model Predictive Control is an extremely effective control method for systems with input and state constraints. Model Predictive Control performance heavily depends on the accuracy of the open-loop prediction. For systems with uncertainty…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-07-27 Francesco Micheli , John Lygeros

We present a model predictive control (MPC) framework to solve the constrained nonlinear output regulation problem. The main feature of the proposed framework is that the application does not require the solution to classical regulator…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-02 Johannes Köhler , Matthias A. Müller , Frank Allgöwer

This letter is devoted to the concept of ``instant'' model predictive control (iMPC) for linear systems. An optimization problem is formulated to express the finite-time constrained optimal regulation control, like conventional MPC. Then,…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Keisuke Yoshida , Masaki Inoue , Takeshi Hatanaka

This paper presents a time-optimal Model Predictive Control (MPC) scheme for linear discrete-time systems subject to multiplicative uncertainties represented by interval matrices. To render the uncertainty propagation computationally…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-26 Renato Quartullo , Andrea Garulli , Mirko Leomanni