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Funnel MPC, a novel Model Predictive Control (MPC) scheme, allows guaranteed output tracking of smooth reference signals with prescribed error bounds for nonlinear multi-input multi-output systems. To this end, the stage cost resembles the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-01 Dario Dennstädt

In the realm of control systems, model predictive control (MPC) has exhibited remarkable potential; however, its reliance on accurate models and substantial computational resources has hindered its broader application, especially within…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-14 Amin Vahidi-Moghaddam , Kaian Chen , Kaixiang Zhang , Zhaojian Li , Yan Wang , Kai Wu

Model predictive control (MPC) is a powerful control method that allows to directly include state and input constraints into the controller design. However, errors in the model, e.g., caused by unknown disturbances, can lead to constraint…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-08 Felix Brändle , Frank Allgöwer

Model Predictive Control (MPC) has become a popular framework in embedded control for high-performance autonomous systems. However, to achieve good control performance using MPC, an accurate dynamics model is key. To maintain real-time…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Tim Salzmann , Elia Kaufmann , Jon Arrizabalaga , Marco Pavone , Davide Scaramuzza , Markus Ryll

We present a framework to design nonlinear robust output feedback model predictive control (MPC) schemes that ensure constraint satisfaction under noisy output measurements and disturbances. We provide novel estimation methods to bound the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-10 Johannes Köhler , Matthias A. Müller , Frank Allgöwer

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

In this paper we present a framework for risk-averse model predictive control (MPC) of linear systems affected by multiplicative uncertainty. Our key innovation is to consider time-consistent, dynamic risk metrics as objective functions to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-11-24 Yin-Lam Chow , Marco Pavone

Despite great successes, model predictive control (MPC) relies on an accurate dynamical model and requires high onboard computational power, impeding its wider adoption in engineering systems, especially for nonlinear real-time systems with…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-03 Amin Vahidi-Moghaddam , Kaian Chen , Kaixiang Zhang , Zhaojian Li , Yan Wang , Kai Wu

Robust Model Predictive Control (MPC) for nonlinear systems is a problem that poses significant challenges as highlighted by the diversity of approaches proposed in the last decades. Often compromises with respect to computational load,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-21 Daniel D. Leister , Justin P. Koeln

In this paper, we propose a novel model predictive control (MPC) framework for output tracking that deals with partially unknown constraints. The MPC scheme optimizes over a learning and a backup trajectory. The learning trajectory aims to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-05-10 Raffaele Soloperto , Ali Mesbah , Frank Allgöwer

Model Predictive Control (MPC) is a powerful and flexible design tool of high-performance controllers for physical systems in the presence of input and output constraints. A challenge for the practitioner applying MPC is the need of tuning…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-19 Marco Forgione , Dario Piga , Alberto Bemporad

Model predictive control (MPC) is a powerful tool for controlling complex nonlinear systems under constraints, but often struggles with model uncertainties and the design of suitable cost functions. To address these challenges, we discuss…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-08 Sebastian Hirt , Andreas Höhl , Johannes Pohlodek , Joachim Schaeffer , Maik Pfefferkorn , Richard D. Braatz , Rolf Findeisen

We consider the problem of optimizing the economic performance of nonlinear constrained systems subject to uncertain time-varying parameters and bounded disturbances. In particular, we propose an adaptive economic model predictive control…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-16 Maximilian Degner , Raffaele Soloperto , Melanie N. Zeilinger , John Lygeros , Johannes Köhler

This article provides an overview of model predictive control (MPC) frameworks for dynamic operation of nonlinear constrained systems. Dynamic operation is often an integral part of the control objective, ranging from tracking of reference…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-10 Johannes Köhler , Matthas A. Müller , Frank Allgöwer

In model-predictive control (MPC), achieving the best closed-loop performance under a given computational resource is the underlying design consideration. This paper analyzes the MPC design problem with control performance and required…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-25 Vincent Bachtiar , Chris Manzie , William H. Moase , Eric C. Kerrigan

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

This paper proposes to decouple performance optimization and enforcement of asymptotic convergence in Model Predictive Control (MPC) so that convergence to a given terminal set is achieved independently of how much performance is optimized…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-03-02 Alberto Bemporad , Daniele Bernardini , Panagiotis Patrinos

We address the problem of executing large client orders in continuous double-auction markets under time and liquidity constraints. We propose a model predictive control (MPC) framework that balances three competing objectives: order…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2026-04-01 Thomas P. McAuliffe , Samuel Liew , Yuchao Li , Andrey Ushenin , Chihang Wang , Alexandros Tasos , Jack Pearce , Dimitris Tasoulis , Dimitri P. Bertsekas , Theodoros Tsagaris

This paper proposes a novel tube-based Model Predictive Control (MPC) framework for tracking varying setpoint references with linear systems subject to additive and multiplicative uncertainties. The MPC controllers designed using this…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-10 Filippo Badalamenti , Sampath Kumar Mulagaleti , Alberto Bemporad , Boris Houska , Mario Eduardo Villanueva

This work introduces a formulation of model predictive control (MPC) which adaptively reasons about the complexity of the model based on the task while maintaining feasibility and stability guarantees. Existing MPC implementations often…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Joseph Norby , Ardalan Tajbakhsh , Yanhao Yang , Aaron M. Johnson