Title
Online learning with stability guarantees: A memory-based warm starting for real-time MPC
Abstract
We propose and analyze a real-time model predictive control (MPC) scheme that utilizes stored data to improve its performance by learning the value function online with stability guarantees. For linear and nonlinear systems, a learning method is presented that makes use of basic analytic properties of the cost function and is proven to learn the MPC control law and the value function on the limit set of the closed-loop state trajectory. The main idea is to generate a smart warm start based on historical data that improves future data points and thus future warm starts. We show that these warm starts are asymptotically exact and converge to the solution of the MPC optimization problem. Thereby, the suboptimality of the applied control input resulting from the real-time requirements vanishes over time. Numerical examples show that existing real-time MPC schemes can be improved by storing optimization data and using the proposed learning scheme.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1016/j.automatica.2020.109247
Automatica
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Predictive control,Optimization,Real-time control,Online learning,Memory-based control
Journal
122
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
0005-1098
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lukas Schwenkel100.34
Meriem Gharbi200.34
Sebastian Trimpe319419.26
Christian Ebenbauer420030.31