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In this paper, the disjunctive and conjunctive lattice piecewise affine (PWA) approximations of explicit linear model predictive control (MPC) are proposed. The training data are generated uniformly in the domain of interest, consisting of…

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We propose a piecewise learning framework for controlling nonlinear systems with unknown dynamics. While model-based reinforcement learning techniques in terms of some basis functions are well known in the literature, when it comes to more…

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Data-driven predictive control (DPC) has recently gained popularity as an alternative to model predictive control (MPC). Amidst the surge in proposed DPC frameworks, upon closer inspection, many of these frameworks are more closely related…

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This paper presents a robust and kernelized data-enabled predictive control (RoKDeePC) algorithm to perform model-free optimal control for nonlinear systems using only input and output data. The algorithm combines robust predictive control…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-07 Linbin Huang , John Lygeros , Florian Dörfler

Many systems are subject to periodic disturbances and exhibit repetitive behaviour. Model-based repetitive control employs knowledge of such periodicity to attenuate periodic disturbances and has seen a wide range of successful industrial…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-28 Rogier Dinkla , Tom Oomen , Sebastiaan Mulders , Jan-Willem van Wingerden

We introduce a general framework for robust data-enabled predictive control (DeePC) for linear time-invariant (LTI) systems. The proposed framework enables us to obtain model-free optimal control for LTI systems based on noisy input/output…

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Online model predictive control (MPC) for piecewise affine (PWA) systems requires the online solution to an optimization problem that implicitly optimizes over the switching sequence of PWA regions, for which the computational burden can be…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-27 Samuel Mallick , Azita Dabiri , Bart De Schutter

Data-driven predictive control (DPC), using linear combinations of recorded trajectory data, has recently emerged as a popular alternative to traditional model predictive control (MPC). Without an explicitly enforced prediction model, the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-31 Manuel Klädtke , Moritz Schulze Darup

We present a stochastic constrained output-feedback data-driven predictive control scheme for linear time-invariant systems subject to bounded additive disturbances. The approach uses data-driven predictors based on an extension of Willems'…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-07 Johannes Teutsch , Sebastian Kerz , Dirk Wollherr , Marion Leibold

Data-Driven Predictive Control (DDPC) has been recently proposed as an effective alternative to traditional Model Predictive Control (MPC), in that the same constrained optimization problem can be addressed without the need to explicitly…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-14 Valentina Breschi , Marco Fabris , Simone Formentin , Alessandro Chiuso

Predictive control can either be data-based (e.g. data-enabled predictive control, or DeePC) or model-based (model predictive control). In this paper we aim to bridge the gap between the two by investigating the case where only a partial…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-10 Jeremy D. Watson

The real-time operation of open water systems is essential for ensuring operational safety, satisfying operational requirements, and optimizing energy usage. However, existing rule-based control strategies rely heavily on human experience,…

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We consider the problem of data-driven predictive control for an unknown discrete-time linear time-periodic (LTP) system of known period. Our proposed strategy generalizes both Data-enabled Predictive Control (DeePC) and Subspace Predictive…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-13 Ruiqi Li , John W. Simpson-Porco , Stephen L. Smith

Data-driven predictive control (DDPC) has been recently proposed as an effective alternative to traditional model-predictive control (MPC) for its unique features of being time-efficient and unbiased with respect to the oracle solution.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-22 Valentina Breschi , Alessandro Chiuso , Simone Formentin

Based on the extension of the behavioral theory and the Fundamental Lemma for Linear Parameter-Varying (LPV) systems, this paper introduces a Data-driven Predictive Control (DPC) scheme capable to ensure reference tracking and satisfaction…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-25 Chris Verhoek , Hossam S. Abbas , Roland Tóth , Sofie Haesaert

Direct data-driven control methods are known to be vulnerable to uncertainty in stochastic systems. In this paper, we propose a new robust data-driven predictive control (DDPC) framework. By analyzing non-unique solutions to behavioral…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-04-23 Yibo Wang , Qingyuan Liu , Chao Shang

This paper considers the design of nonlinear data-enabled predictive control (DeePC) using kernel functions. Compared with existing methods that use kernels to parameterize multi-step predictors for nonlinear DeePC, we adopt a novel,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-30 Thomas de Jong , Siep Weiland , Mircea Lazar

PieceWise Affine (PWA) approximations for nonlinear functions have been extensively used for tractable, computationally efficient control of nonlinear systems. However, reaching a desired approximation accuracy without prior information…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Leila Gharavi , Bart De Schutter , Simone Baldi

We propose two optimization-based heuristics for structure selection and identification of PieceWise Affine (PWA) models with exogenous inputs. The first method determines the number of affine sub-models assuming known model order of the…

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