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Model Predictive Control (MPC) is widely used in robot control by optimizing a sequence of control outputs over a finite-horizon. Computational approaches for MPC include deterministic methods (e.g., iLQR and COBYLA), as well as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Zhaoxin Li , Xiaoke Wang , Letian Chen , Rohan Paleja , Subramanya Nageshrao , Matthew Gombolay

This paper focuses on passenger-oriented real-time train rescheduling, considering flexible train composition and rolling stock circulation, by integrating learning-based and optimization-based approaches. A learning-based model predictive…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-01 Xiaoyu Liu , Caio Fabio Oliveira da Silva , Azita Dabiri , Yihui Wang , Bart De Schutter

Model predictive control (MPC) is a method to formulate the optimal scheduling problem for grid flexibilities in a mathematical manner. The resulting time-constrained optimization problem can be re-solved in each optimization time step…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-20 Steven de Jongh , Sina Steinle , Anna Hlawatsch , Felicitas Mueller , Michael Suriyah , Thomas Leibfried

Co-optimization of both vehicle speed and gear position via model predictive control (MPC) has been shown to offer benefits for fuel-efficient autonomous driving. However, optimizing both the vehicle's continuous dynamics and discrete gear…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-29 Samuel Mallick , Gianpietro Battocletti , Qizhang Dong , Azita Dabiri , Bart De Schutter

The objective of this paper is to present a novel intelligent train control system for virtual coupling in railroads based on a Learning Model Predictive Control (LMPC). Virtual coupling is an emerging railroad technology that reduces the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-04 Miguel A. Vaquero-Serrano , Francesco Borrelli , Jesus Felez

Predictive coding (PC) is a general theory of cortical function. The local, gradient-based learning rules found in one kind of PC model have recently been shown to closely approximate backpropagation. This finding suggests that this…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Nick Alonso , Emre Neftci

In this paper, a safe and learning-based control framework for model predictive control (MPC) is proposed to optimize nonlinear systems with a non-differentiable objective function under uncertain environmental disturbances. The control…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Lei Zheng , Rui Yang , Zhixuan Wu , Jiesen Pan , Hui Cheng

MPC (Model predictive control)-based motion planning and trajectory generation are essential in applications such as unmanned aerial vehicles, robotic manipulators, and rocket control. However, the real-time implementation of such…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Haotian Tan , Yuan-Hua Ni

There is a widespread intuition that model-based control methods should be able to surpass the data efficiency of model-free approaches. In this paper we attempt to evaluate this intuition on various challenging locomotion tasks. We take a…

Model predictive control (MPC) is widely used for path tracking of autonomous vehicles due to its ability to handle various types of constraints. However, a considerable predictive error exists because of the error of mathematics model or…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Chaoyang Jiang , Hanqing Tian , Jibin Hu , Jiankun Zhai , Chao Wei , Jun Ni

Data-driven model predictive control has two key advantages over model-free methods: a potential for improved sample efficiency through model learning, and better performance as computational budget for planning increases. However, it is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Nicklas Hansen , Xiaolong Wang , Hao Su

The recent increase in data availability and reliability has led to a surge in the development of learning-based model predictive control (MPC) frameworks for robot systems. Despite attaining substantial performance improvements over their…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Kong Yao Chee , Thales C. Silva , M. Ani Hsieh , George J. Pappas

A major challenge in training large-scale machine learning models is configuring the training process to maximize model performance, i.e., finding the best training setup from a vast design space. In this work, we unlock a gradient-based…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-19 Logan Engstrom , Andrew Ilyas , Benjamin Chen , Axel Feldmann , William Moses , Aleksander Madry

Merging multiple expert models offers a promising approach for performing multi-task learning without accessing their original data. Existing methods attempt to alleviate task conflicts by sparsifying task vectors or promoting orthogonality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Yongxian Wei , Anke Tang , Li Shen , Zixuan Hu , Chun Yuan , Xiaochun Cao

Tight performance specifications in combination with operational constraints make model predictive control (MPC) the method of choice in various industries. As the performance of an MPC controller depends on a sufficiently accurate…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-09 Kim P. Wabersich , Melanie N. Zeilinger

This paper proposes a state reduction method for learning-based model predictive control (MPC) for train rescheduling in urban rail transit systems. The state reduction integrates into a control framework where the discrete decision…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-30 Caio Fabio Oliveira da Silva , Xiaoyu Liu , Azita Dabiri , Bart De Schutter

We propose and analyze a real-time model predictive control (MPC) scheme that utilizes stored data to improve its performance by learning the value function online with stability guarantees. For linear and nonlinear systems, a learning…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-09-23 Lukas Schwenkel , Meriem Gharbi , Sebastian Trimpe , Christian Ebenbauer

The contribution of this paper is a framework for training and evaluation of Model Predictive Control (MPC) implemented using constrained neural networks. Recent studies have proposed to use neural networks with differentiable convex…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-05-11 Rebecka Winqvist , Arun Venkitaraman , Bo Wahlberg

This paper proposes a Model Predictive Control (MPC) algorithm for target tracking amongst static and dynamic obstacles. Our main contribution lies in improving the computational tractability and reliability of the underlying non-convex…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Houman Masnavi , Vivek Adajania , Karl Kruusamae , Arun Kumar Singh

Model Predictive Control (MPC) is an enabling technology in applications requiring controlling physical processes in an optimized way under constraints on inputs and outputs. However, in MPC closed-loop performance is pushed to the limits…

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