Publications de Melanie Nicole Zeilinger

Model Predictive Control for Multi-Agent Systems under Limited Communication and Time-Varying Network Topology

Danilo Saccani, Melanie Nicole Zeilinger

In control system networks, reconfiguration of the controller when agents are leaving or joining the network is still an open challenge, in particular when operation constraints that depend on each agent's behavior must be met. Drawing our motivation from ...

IEEE2023

Physics-Informed Machine Learning for Modeling and Control of Dynamical Systems

Colin Neil Jones, Roland Schwan, Melanie Nicole Zeilinger, Xuan Truong Nghiem

Physics-informed machine learning (PIML) is a set of methods and tools that systematically integrate machine learning (ML) algorithms with physical constraints and abstract mathematical models developed in scientific and engineering domains. As opposed to ...

IEEE2023

Homothetic Tube Model Predictive Control With Multi-Step Predictors

Giancarlo Ferrari Trecate, Danilo Saccani, Melanie Nicole Zeilinger

We present a robust model predictive control (MPC) framework for linear systems facing bounded parametric uncertainty and bounded disturbances. Our approach deviates from standard MPC formulations by integrating multi-step predictors, which provide reduced ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2023

Data-driven control of room temperature and bidirectional EV charging using deep reinforcement learning: Simulations and experiments

Loris Di Natale, Bratislav Svetozarevic, Melanie Nicole Zeilinger, Christian Baumann

2022

Quantization Design for Distributed Optimization

Colin Neil Jones, Ye Pu, Melanie Nicole Zeilinger

We consider the problem of solving a distributed optimization problem using a distributed computing platform, where the communication in the network is limited: each node can only communicate with its neighbors and the channel has a limited data-rate. A co ...

2017

Complexity Certification of the Fast Alternating Minimization Algorithm for Linear MPC

Colin Neil Jones, Ye Pu, Melanie Nicole Zeilinger

In this technical note, the fast alternating minimization algorithm (FAMA) is proposed to solve model predictive control (MPC) problems with polytopic and second-order cone constraints. Two splitting strategies with efficient implementations for MPC proble ...

2017

Distributed synthesis and stability of cooperative distributed model predictive control for linear systems

Colin Neil Jones, Melanie Nicole Zeilinger

This paper presents a new formulation and synthesis approach for stabilizing cooperative distributed model predictive control (MPC) for networks of linear systems, which are coupled in their dynamics. The controller is defined by a network-wide constrained ...

Elsevier2016

MPC for Tracking Periodic References

Colin Neil Jones, Melanie Nicole Zeilinger

In this technical note, a new model predictive controller for tracking arbitrary periodic references is presented. The proposed controller is based on a single layer that unites dynamic trajectory planning and control. A design procedure to guarantee that ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2016

Quantization Design for Unconstrained Distributed Optimization

Colin Neil Jones, Ye Pu, Melanie Nicole Zeilinger

We consider an unconstrained distributed optimization problem and assume that the bit rate of the communication in the network is limited. We propose a distributed optimization algorithm with an iteratively refining quantization design, which bounds the qu ...

2015

Quantization design for distributed optimization with time-varying parameters

Colin Neil Jones, Ye Pu, Melanie Nicole Zeilinger

2015