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Reinforcement Learning (RL) and Machine Learning Integrated Model Predictive Control (ML-MPC) are promising approaches for optimizing hydrogen-diesel dual-fuel engine control, as they can effectively control multiple-input multiple-output…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Julian Bedei , Murray McBain , Alexander Winkler , Charles Robert Koch , Jakob Andert , David Gordon

Model Predictive Control (MPC) is attracting tremendous attention in the autonomous driving task as a powerful control technique. The success of an MPC controller strongly depends on an accurate internal dynamics model. However, the static…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Yuan Zhang , Joschka Boedecker , Chuxuan Li , Guyue Zhou

Decision and control are core functionalities of high-level automated vehicles. Current mainstream methods, such as functionality decomposition and end-to-end reinforcement learning (RL), either suffer high time complexity or poor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Yang Guan , Yangang Ren , Qi Sun , Shengbo Eben Li , Haitong Ma , Jingliang Duan , Yifan Dai , Bo Cheng

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

Learning to perform perfect tracking tasks based on measurement data is desirable in the controller design of systems operating repetitively. This motivates the present paper to seek an optimization-based design approach for iterative…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-08 Deyuan Meng , Jingyao Zhang

Robots and automated systems are increasingly being introduced to unknown and dynamic environments where they are required to handle disturbances, unmodeled dynamics, and parametric uncertainties. Robust and adaptive control strategies are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-08-03 Karime Pereida , Angela Schoellig

In this work, we propose a novel learning-based model predictive control (MPC) framework for motion planning and control of urban self-driving. In this framework, instantaneous references and cost functions of online MPC are learned from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Yubin Wang , Zengqi Peng , Yusen Xie , Yulin Li , Hakim Ghazzai , Jun Ma

The successful operation of mobile robots requires them to adapt rapidly to environmental changes. To develop an adaptive decision-making tool for mobile robots, we propose a novel algorithm that combines meta-reinforcement learning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Jaeuk Shin , Astghik Hakobyan , Mingyu Park , Yeoneung Kim , Gihun Kim , Insoon Yang

Model predictive control (MPC) has established itself as the primary methodology for constrained control, enabling general-purpose robot autonomy in diverse real-world scenarios. However, for most problems of interest, MPC relies on the…

This paper presents a robust adaptive learning Model Predictive Control (MPC) framework for linear systems with parametric uncertainties and additive disturbances performing iterative tasks. The approach refines the parameter estimates…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-04 Hannes Petrenz , Johannes Köhler , Francesco Borrelli

Autonomous aerial vehicles necessitate control strategies that balance computational efficiency with robust performance in dynamic operational environments. This paper proposes a model predictive control (MPC) framework for aerial platforms…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-25 Tayyab Manzoor , Yasir Ali , Yuanqing Xia , Lijie You , Yan Wang

Model Predictive Control (MPC) is a powerful control strategy widely utilized in domains like energy management, building control, and autonomous systems. However, its effectiveness in real-world settings is challenged by the need to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-08 Ruixiang Wu , Jiahao Ai , Tongxin Li

Nonlinear model predictive control (MPC) is a flexible and increasingly popular framework used to synthesize feedback control strategies that can satisfy both state and control input constraints. In this framework, an optimization problem,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-17 Kong Yao Chee , M. Ani Hsieh , Nikolai Matni

Model predictive control (MPC) is an optimal control strategy where control input calculation is based on minimizing the predicted tracking error over a finite horizon that moves with time. This strategy has an advantage over conventional…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-28 Joseph Chai , Eran Medagoda , Erkan Kayacan

This paper explores the synergies between integrated power and thermal management (iPTM) and battery charging in an electric vehicle (EV). A multi-objective model predictive control (MPC) framework is developed to optimize the fast charging…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-24 Qiuhao Hu , Mohammad Reza Amini , Ashley Wiese , Ilya Kolmanovsky , Jing Sun

Iterative learning control (ILC) is a powerful technique for high performance tracking in the presence of modeling errors for optimal control applications. There is extensive prior work showing its empirical effectiveness in applications…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Anirudh Vemula , Wen Sun , Maxim Likhachev , J. Andrew Bagnell

Self-evolution is indispensable to realize full autonomous driving. This paper presents a self-evolving decision-making system based on the Integrated Decision and Control (IDC), an advanced framework built on reinforcement learning (RL).…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Yang Guan , Liye Tang , Chuanxiao Li , Shengbo Eben Li , Yangang Ren , Junqing Wei , Bo Zhang , Keqiang Li

Sampling-based Model Predictive Control (MPC) is a flexible control framework that can reason about non-smooth dynamics and cost functions. Recently, significant work has focused on the use of machine learning to improve the performance of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Jacob Sacks , Byron Boots

Iterative learning control (ILC) is a method for reducing system tracking or estimation errors over multiple iterations by using information from past iterations. The disturbance observer (DOB) is used to estimate and mitigate disturbances…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Harsh Modi , Zhu Chen , Xiao Liang , Minghui Zheng

For safe and efficient planning and control in autonomous driving, we need a driving policy which can achieve desirable driving quality in long-term horizon with guaranteed safety and feasibility. Optimization-based approaches, such as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Liting Sun , Cheng Peng , Wei Zhan , Masayoshi Tomizuka