Model predictive control in aerospace systems: Current state and opportunities

U Eren, A Prach, BB Koçer, SV Raković… - Journal of Guidance …, 2017 - arc.aiaa.org
CONTROLLER design is more troublesome in aerospace systems due to, inter alia, diversity
of mission platforms, convoluted nonlinear dynamics, predominantly strict mission and …

Toward dependable embedded model predictive control

TA Johansen - IEEE Systems Journal, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
While model predictive control (MPC) is the industrially preferred method for advanced
control in the process industries, it has not found much use in consumer products and safety …

Predictive control using an FPGA with application to aircraft control

EN Hartley, JL Jerez, A Suardi… - … on Control Systems …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Alternative and more efficient computational methods can extend the applicability of model
predictive control (MPC) to systems with tight real-time requirements. This paper presents a …

Design and experimental validation of a robust model predictive control for the optimal trajectory tracking of a small-scale autonomous bulldozer

S Khan, J Guivant, X Li - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2022 - Elsevier
Trajectory tracking of an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) is essential due to its extensive
construction, agriculture, and military applications. In this paper, we propose an efficient …

Trajectory tracking for wheeled mobile robots via model predictive control with softening constraints

H Yang, M Guo, Y Xia, L Cheng - IET Control Theory & …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
In this study, model predictive control with softening constraints is applied to a non‐
holonomic wheeled mobile robot for trajectory tracking in the presence of external …

Computational complexity of inexact gradient augmented Lagrangian methods: application to constrained MPC

V Nedelcu, I Necoara, Q Tran-Dinh - SIAM Journal on Control and …, 2014 - SIAM
We study the computational complexity certification of inexact gradient augmented
Lagrangian methods for solving convex optimization problems with complicated constraints …

Efficient parallel coordinate descent algorithm for convex optimization problems with separable constraints: application to distributed MPC

I Necoara, D Clipici - Journal of Process Control, 2013 - Elsevier
In this paper we propose a parallel coordinate descent algorithm for solving smooth convex
optimization problems with separable constraints that may arise, eg in distributed model …

FPGA accelerated model predictive control for autonomous driving

Y Li, SE Li, X Jia, S Zeng… - Journal of intelligent and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Purpose-The purpose of this paper is to reduce the difficulty of model predictive control
(MPC) deployment on FPGA so that researchers can make better use of FPGA technology …

A survey of the implementation of linear model predictive control on FPGAs

I McInerney, GA Constantinides, EC Kerrigan - IFAC-PapersOnLine, 2018 - Elsevier
Over the past 20 years, great strides have been made in the real-time implementation of
linear MPC on FPGA devices. Starting from initial work, which demonstrated the benefits of …

Solving linear and quadratic programs with an analog circuit

S Vichik, F Borrelli - Computers & Chemical Engineering, 2014 - Elsevier
We present the design of an analog circuit which solves linear programming (LP) or
quadratic programming (QP) problem. In particular, the steady-state circuit voltages are the …