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This article proposes a hierarchical learning architecture for safe data-driven control in unknown environments. We consider a constrained nonlinear dynamical system and assume the availability of state-input trajectories solving control…

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Model Predictive Control (MPC) is among the most widely adopted and reliable methods for robot control, relying critically on an accurate dynamics model. However, existing dynamics models used in the gradient-based MPC are limited by…

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In this paper, we study a data-enabled predictive control (DeePC) algorithm applied to unknown stochastic linear time-invariant systems. The algorithm uses noise-corrupted input/output data to predict future trajectories and compute optimal…

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Soft robots offer significant advantages in safety and adaptability, yet achieving precise and dynamic control remains a major challenge due to their inherently complex and nonlinear dynamics. Recently, Data-enabled Predictive Control…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Cheng Ouyang , Moeen Ul Islam , Dong Chen , Kaixiang Zhang , Zhaojian Li , Xiaobo Tan

We propose a hierarchical learning architecture for predictive control in unknown environments. We consider a constrained nonlinear dynamical system and assume the availability of state-input trajectories solving control tasks in different…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-16 Charlott Vallon , Francesco Borrelli

We present foundations for using Model Predictive Control (MPC) as a differentiable policy class for reinforcement learning in continuous state and action spaces. This provides one way of leveraging and combining the advantages of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-15 Brandon Amos , Ivan Dario Jimenez Rodriguez , Jacob Sacks , Byron Boots , J. Zico Kolter

An important question in data-driven control is how to obtain an informative dataset. In this work, we consider the problem of effective data acquisition of an unknown linear system with bounded disturbance for both open-loop and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-01 Shilun Feng , Dawei Shi , Yang Shi , Kaikai Zheng

Descriptor systems arise naturally in real-world applications governed by algebraic constraints, such as power networks, robotics and chemical processes. When a descriptor model contains a nontrivial nilpotent block, the discrete-time…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Yunxiang Ma , Yibo Wang , Zhongmei Li , Chao Shang

This paper introduces a novel nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) framework that incorporates a lifting technique to enhance control performance for nonlinear systems. While the lifting technique has been widely employed in linear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-15 Nuthasith Gerdpratoom , Fumiya Matsuzaki , Yutaka Yamamoto , Kaoru Yamamoto

This paper studies the optimal control problem for discrete-time nonlinear systems and an approximate dynamic programming-based Model Predictive Control (MPC) scheme is proposed for minimizing a quadratic performance measure. In the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-12 Keerthi Chacko , Midhun T. Augustine , S. Janardhanan , Deepak U. Patil , I. N. Kar

This work introduces the Data-Enabled Predictive iteRative Control (DeePRC) algorithm, a direct data-driven approach for iterative LTI systems. The DeePRC learns from previous iterations to improve its performance and achieves the optimal…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-31 Kai Zhang , Riccardo Zuliani , Efe C. Balta , John Lygeros

Current data-driven predictive control (DDPC) methods heavily rely on data collected in open-loop operation with elaborate design of inputs. However, due to safety or economic concerns, systems may have to be under feedback control, where…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-02-21 Yibo Wang , Yiwen Qiu , Malika Sader , Dexian Huang , Chao Shang

Automating complex industrial robots requires precise nonlinear control and efficient energy management. This paper introduces a data-driven nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) framework to optimize control under multiple objectives.…

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The modular open-source framework GRAMPC-D for model predictive control of distributed systems is presented in this paper. The modular concept allows to solve optimal control problems (OCP) in a centralized and distributed fashion using the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-26 Daniel Burk , Andreas Völz , Knut Graichen

We introduce data to predictive control, D2PC, a framework to facilitate the design of robust and predictive controllers from data. The proposed framework is designed for discrete-time stochastic linear systems with output measurements and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Haldun Balim , Andrea Carron , Melanie N. Zeilinger , Johannes Köhler

We present a novel data-driven Model Predictive Control (MPC) algorithm for nonlinear systems. The method is based on recent extensions of behavioural theory and Willem's Fundamental Lemma for nonlinear systems by the means of adequate…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-18 Marcelo Menezes Morato , Julio Elias Normey-Rico , Olivier Sename

Event-triggered model predictive control (eMPC) is a popular optimal control method with an aim to alleviate the computation and/or communication burden of MPC. However, it generally requires priori knowledge of the closed-loop system…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Fengying Dang , Dong Chen , Jun Chen , Zhaojian Li

This paper introduces the Deep Learning-based Nonlinear Model Predictive Controller with Scene Dynamics (DL-NMPC-SD) method for autonomous navigation. DL-NMPC-SD uses an a-priori nominal vehicle model in combination with a scene dynamics…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Sorin Grigorescu , Mihai Zaha

We consider data-based predictive control based on behavioral systems theory. In the linear setting this means that a system is described as a subspace of trajectories, and predictive control can be formulated using a projection onto the…

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