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Publications (20)

math.OC2024

Fast Generation of Feasible Trajectories in Direct Optimal Control

David Kiessling, Katrin Baumgärtner, Jonathan Frey +3

This paper examines the question of finding feasible points to discrete-time optimal control problems. The optimization problem of finding a feasible trajectory is transcribed to a…

math.OC2023

Gauss-Newton Runge-Kutta Integration for Efficient Discretization of Optimal Control Problems with Long Horizons and Least-Squares Costs

Jonathan Frey, Katrin Baumgärtner, Moritz Diehl

This work proposes an efficient treatment of continuous-time optimal control problem (OCP) with long horizons and nonlinear least-squares costs. The Gauss-Newton Runge-Kutta (GNRK)…

math.OC2025

Differentiable Nonlinear Model Predictive Control

Jonathan Frey, Katrin Baumgärtner, Gianluca Frison +5

The efficient computation of parametric solution sensitivities is a key challenge in the integration of learning-enhanced methods with nonlinear model predictive control (MPC), as…

cs.LG2023

Imitation Learning from Nonlinear MPC via the Exact Q-Loss and its Gauss-Newton Approximation

Andrea Ghezzi, Jasper Hoffman, Jonathan Frey +2

This work presents a novel loss function for learning nonlinear Model Predictive Control policies via Imitation Learning. Standard approaches to Imitation Learning neglect informat…

eess.SY2025

MPC4RL -- A Software Package for Reinforcement Learning based on Model Predictive Control

Dirk Reinhardt, Katrin Baumgärnter, Jonathan Frey +2

In this paper, we present an early software integrating Reinforcement Learning (RL) with Model Predictive Control (MPC). Our aim is to make recent theoretical contributions from th…

cs.RO2024

Active Learning of Discrete-Time Dynamics for Uncertainty-Aware Model Predictive Control

Alessandro Saviolo, Jonathan Frey, Abhishek Rathod +2

Model-based control requires an accurate model of the system dynamics for precisely and safely controlling the robot in complex and dynamic environments. Moreover, in the presence…