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Decentralized collision avoidance remains challenging, particularly when agents do not communicate any information related to planned trajectories. Most existing approaches either rely on conservative coordination mechanisms or provide…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Max Studt , Georg Schildbach

Recent studies have shown that multi-step optimization based on Model Predictive Control (MPC) can effectively coordinate the increasing number of distributed renewable energy and storage resources in the power system. However, the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-06-02 Junyao Guo , Gabriela Hug , Ozan Tonguz

This paper introduces a Koopman-enhanced distributed switched model predictive control (SMPC) framework for safe and scalable navigation of quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in dynamic environments with moving obstacles. The…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-01 Ali Azarbahram , Chrystian Pool Yuca Huanca , Gian Paolo Incremona , Patrizio Colaneri

This paper presents a distributed stochastic model predictive control (SMPC) approach for large-scale linear systems with private and common uncertainties in a plug-and-play framework. Using the so-called scenario approach, the centralized…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-01-09 V. Rostampour , T. Keviczky

This article presents a distributed model-predictive control (MPC) design for real-time voltage control in power systems, including an online method to estimate the bus admittance matrix $\mathbf{Y}$ to let it be time-varying and unknown a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-06 Ramij R. Hossain , Ratnesh Kumar

Safety in obstacle avoidance is critical for autonomous driving. While model predictive control (MPC) is widely used, simplified prediction models such as linearized or single-track vehicle models introduce discrepancies between predicted…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Shiming Fang , Xilin Li , Changzhi Wu , Kaiyan Yu

This paper proposes Distributed Model Predictive Covariance Steering (DiMPCS) for multi-agent control under stochastic uncertainty. The scope of our approach is to blend covariance steering theory, distributed optimization and model…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Augustinos D. Saravanos , Isin M. Balci , Efstathios Bakolas , Evangelos A. Theodorou

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

Many real-world multi-agent systems exhibit nonlinear dynamics and complex inter-agent interactions. As these systems increase in scale, the main challenges arise from achieving scalability and handling nonconvexity. To address these…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-22 Taehyun Yoon , Augustinos D. Saravanos , Evangelos A. Theodorou

Cooperative driving at isolated intersections attracted great interest and had been well discussed in recent years. However, cooperative driving in multi-intersection road networks remains to be further investigated, because many algorithms…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-22 Huaxin Pei , Yi Zhang , Qinghua Tao , Shuo Feng , Li Li

This paper studies the problem of distributionally robust model predictive control (MPC) using total variation distance ambiguity sets. For a discrete-time linear system with additive disturbances, we provide a conditional value-at-risk…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-27 Anushri Dixit , Mohamadreza Ahmadi , Joel W. Burdick

In this paper, we design a stochastic Model Predictive Control (MPC) traffic signal control method for an urban traffic network when the uncertainties in the estimation of the exogenous (in/out)-flows and the turning ratios of downstream…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-05 Viet Hoang Pham , Hyo-Sung Ahn

This paper presents a Distributed Stochastic Model Predictive Control algorithm for networks of linear systems with multiplicative uncertainties and local chance constraints on the states and control inputs. The chance constraints are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-03-07 Christoph Mark , Steven Liu

Data-enabled predictive control (DeePC) has emerged as a powerful technique to control complex systems without the need for extensive modeling efforts. However, relying solely on offline collected data trajectories to represent the system…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-06 Sebastian Zieglmeier , Mathias Hudoba de Badyn , Narada D. Warakagoda , Thomas R. Krogstad , Paal Engelstad

This paper proposes a distributed model predicted control (DMPC) approach for consensus control of multi-agent systems (MASs) with linear agent dynamics and bounded control input constraints. Within the proposed DMPC framework, each agent…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-16 Yougang Bian , Changkun Du , Manjiang Hu , Haikuo Liu

In this paper, we propose a distributed model predictive control (DMPC) scheme for linear time-invariant constrained systems which admit a separable structure. To exploit the merits of distributed computation algorithms, the stabilizing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-03-22 Georgios Darivianakis , Annika Eichler , John Lygeros

We analyze a time-coarsening strategy for model predictive control (MPC) that we call diffusing-horizon MPC. This strategy seeks to overcome the computational challenges associated with optimal control problems that span multiple…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Sungho Shin , Victor M. Zavala

This paper studies consensus of discrete-time multi-agent systems under time-varying directed communication, state and input constraints using a distributed multi-step model predictive control (MPC) framework. Consensus is recast as…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-02-18 Navid Noroozi

This paper addresses the trajectory-tracking problem for discrete-time linear time-invariant systems with bounded parametric uncertainty, subject to hard constraints on system states, control inputs, and input rates. Unlike existing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-07 Bishal Dey , Abhishek Dhar , Sumit kr. Pandey , Anindita Sengupta

We propose a distributed model predictive control approach for linear time-invariant systems coupled via dynamics. The proposed approach uses the tube MPC concept for robustness to handle the disturbances induced by mutual interactions…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-10-31 Pablo R Baldivieso Monasterios , Bernardo Hernandez , Paul A Trodden