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most citedTime Distributed Optimization for Model Predictive Control: Stability, Robustness, and Constraint Satisfaction

82 citations · 486 across the 90 of their papers we have counts for

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96 papers

eess.SY2025

Time Shift Governor-Guided MPC with Collision Cone CBFs for Safe Adaptive Cruise Control in Dynamic Environments

Robin Inho Kee, Taehyeun Kim, Anouck Girard +1

This paper introduces a Time Shift Governor (TSG)-guided Model Predictive Controller with Control Barrier Functions (CBFs)-based constraints for adaptive cruise control (ACC). This…

eess.SY2025

Control Invariant Sets for Neural Network Dynamical Systems and Recursive Feasibility in Model Predictive Control

Xiao Li, Tianhao Wei, Changliu Liu +2

Neural networks are powerful tools for data-driven modeling of complex dynamical systems, enhancing predictive capability for control applications. However, their inherent nonlinea…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

A Survey of Reinforcement Learning-Based Motion Planning for Autonomous Driving: Lessons Learned from a Driving Task Perspective

Zhuoren Li, Guizhe Jin, Ran Yu +8

Reinforcement learning (RL), with its ability to explore and optimize policies in complex, dynamic decision-making tasks, has emerged as a promising approach to addressing motion p…

cs.LG2025

Learning Hamiltonian Dynamics with Bayesian Data Assimilation

Taehyeun Kim, Tae-Geun Kim, Anouck Girard +1

In this paper, we develop a neural network-based approach for time-series prediction in unknown Hamiltonian dynamical systems. Our approach leverages a surrogate model and learns t…

eess.SY2024

Constrained Control for Autonomous Spacecraft Rendezvous: Learning-Based Time Shift Governor

Taehyeun Kim, Robin Inho Kee, Ilya Kolmanovsky +1

This paper develops a Time Shift Governor (TSG)-based control scheme to enforce constraints during rendezvous and docking (RD) missions in the setting of the Two-Body problem. As a…

eess.SY2024

CIKAN: Constraint Informed Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks for Autonomous Spacecraft Rendezvous using Time Shift Governor

Taehyeun Kim, Anouck Girard, Ilya Kolmanovsky

The paper considers a Constrained-Informed Neural Network (CINN) approximation for the Time Shift Governor (TSG), which is an add-on scheme to the nominal closed-loop system used t…

cs.RO2024

Safe Adaptive Cruise Control Under Perception Uncertainty: A Deep Ensemble and Conformal Tube Model Predictive Control Approach

Xiao Li, Anouck Girard, Ilya Kolmanovsky

Autonomous driving heavily relies on perception systems to interpret the environment for decision-making. To enhance robustness in these safety critical applications, this paper co…

eess.SY2024

Newton Methods in Generalized Nash Equilibrium Problems with Applications to Game-Theoretic Model Predictive Control

Mushuang Liu, Ilya Kolmanovsky

We prove input-to-state stability (ISS) of perturbed Newton-type methods for generalized equations arising from Nash equilibrium (NE) and generalized NE (GNE) problems. This ISS pr…

eess.SY2024

Time Shift Governor for Constrained Control of Spacecraft Orbit and Attitude Relative Motion in Bicircular Restricted Four-Body Problem

Taehyeun Kim, Ilya Kolmanovsky, Anouck Girard

This paper considers constrained spacecraft rendezvous and docking (RVD) in the setting of the Bicircular Restricted Four-Body Problem (BCR4BP), while accounting for attitude dynam…

cs.AI2024

Autonomous Driving With Perception Uncertainties: Deep-Ensemble Based Adaptive Cruise Control

Xiao Li, H. Eric Tseng, Anouck Girard +1

Autonomous driving depends on perception systems to understand the environment and to inform downstream decision-making. While advanced perception systems utilizing black-box Deep…

math.OC2024★ 3 cited

Data-Driven Predictive Control with Adaptive Disturbance Attenuation for Constrained Systems

Nan Li, Ilya Kolmanovsky, Hong Chen

In this paper, we propose a novel data-driven predictive control approach for systems subject to time-domain constraints. The approach combines the strengths of H-infinity control…

math.OC2024★ 1 cited

Input-to-State Stability of Newton Methods for Generalized Equations in Nonlinear Optimization

Torbjørn Cunis, Ilya Kolmanovsky

We show that Newton methods for generalized equations are input-to-state stable with respect to disturbances such as due to inexact computations. We then use this result to obtain…

eess.SY2024★ 7 cited

Nonlinear Model Predictive Detumbling of Small Satellites with a Single-axis Magnetorquer

Kota Kondo, Ilya Kolmanovsky, Yasuhiro Yoshimura +3

Various actuators are used in spacecraft to achieve attitude stabilization, including thrusters, momentum wheels, and control moment gyros. Small satellites, however, have stringen…

eess.SY2024

Less Conservative Robust Reference Governors and Their Applications

Miguel Castroviejo-Fernandez, Huayi Li, Andrés Cotorruelo +2

The applications of reference governors to systems with unmeasured set-bounded disturbances can lead to conservative solutions. This conservatism can be reduced by estimating the d…

eess.SY2023★ 3 cited

Minimum-Time Trajectory Optimization With Data-Based Models: A Linear Programming Approach

Nan Li, Ehsan Taheri, Ilya Kolmanovsky +1

In this paper, we develop a computationally-efficient approach to minimum-time trajectory optimization using input-output data-based models, to produce an end-to-end data-to-contro…

cs.RO2023

System-level Safety Guard: Safe Tracking Control through Uncertain Neural Network Dynamics Models

Xiao Li, Yutong Li, Anouck Girard +1

The Neural Network (NN), as a black-box function approximator, has been considered in many control and robotics applications. However, difficulties in verifying the overall system…

cs.AI2023

Decision-Making for Autonomous Vehicles with Interaction-Aware Behavioral Prediction and Social-Attention Neural Network

Xiao Li, Kaiwen Liu, H. Eric Tseng +2

Autonomous vehicles need to accomplish their tasks while interacting with human drivers in traffic. It is thus crucial to equip autonomous vehicles with artificial reasoning to bet…

eess.SY2023

A Comparison between Markov Chain and Koopman Operator Based Data-Driven Modeling of Dynamical Systems

Saeid Tafazzol, Nan Li, Ilya Kolmanovsky +1

Markov chain-based modeling and Koopman operator-based modeling are two popular frameworks for data-driven modeling of dynamical systems. They share notable similarities from a com…

cs.AI2023

Interaction-Aware Decision-Making for Autonomous Vehicles in Forced Merging Scenario Leveraging Social Psychology Factors

Xiao Li, Kaiwen Liu, H. Eric Tseng +2

Understanding the intention of vehicles in the surrounding traffic is crucial for an autonomous vehicle to successfully accomplish its driving tasks in complex traffic scenarios su…

eess.SY2023

Constrained reaction wheel desaturation and attitude control of spacecraft with four reaction wheels

Miguel Castroviejo-Fernandez, Ilya Kolmanovsky

The paper addresses a problem of constrained spacecraft attitude stabilization with simultaneous reaction wheel (RW) desaturation. The spacecraft has a reaction wheel array (RWA) c…

eess.SY2023

A Unified Safety Protection and Extension Governor

Nan Li, Yutong Li, Ilya Kolmanovsky

In this paper, we propose a supervisory control scheme that unifies the abilities of safety protection and safety extension. It produces a control that is able to keep the system s…

eess.SY2023

Scheduling Dosage of Proton Pump Inhibitors Using Constrained Optimization With Gastric Acid Secretion Model

Yutong Li, Nan Li, Anouck Girard +1

Dosage schedule of the Proton Pump Inhibitors (PPIs) is critical for gastric acid disorder treatment. In this paper, we develop a constrained optimization based approach for schedu…

eess.SY2023

On Complexity Bounds for the Maximal Admissible Set of Linear Time-Invariant Systems

Hamid R. Ossareh, Ilya Kolmanovsky

Given a dynamical system with constrained outputs, the maximal admissible set (MAS) is defined as the set of all initial conditions such that the output constraints are satisfied f…

math.OC2022

Reference Governor for Constrained Spacecraft Orbital Transfers

Simone Semeraro, Ilya Kolmanovsky, Emanuele Garone

The paper considers the application of feedback control to orbital transfer maneuvers subject to constraints on the spacecraft thrust and on avoiding the collision with the primary…