Title
Cautious Model Predictive Control Using Gaussian Process Regression
Abstract
Gaussian process (GP) regression has been widely used in supervised machine learning due to its flexibility and inherent ability to describe uncertainty in function estimation. In the context of control, it is seeing increasing use for modeling of nonlinear dynamical systems from data, as it allows the direct assessment of residual model uncertainty. We present a model predictive control (MPC) approach that integrates a nominal system with an additive nonlinear part of the dynamics modeled as a GP. We describe a principled way of formulating the chance-constrained MPC problem, which takes into account residual uncertainties provided by the GP model to enable cautious control. Using additional approximations for efficient computation, we finally demonstrate the approach in a simulation example, as well as in a hardware implementation for autonomous racing of remote-controlled race cars with fast sampling times of 20 ms, highlighting improvements with regard to both performance and safety over a nominal controller.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/TCST.2019.2949757
IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Predictive control,Data models,Computational modeling,Kernel,Gaussian processes,Uncertainty,Predictive models
Journal
28
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
6
1063-6536
11
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.59
5
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lukas Hewing1254.27
Juraj Kabzan2110.59
Melanie Nicole Zeilinger329830.91