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Fast and Lightweight: a Real-time Parallelizable Mpc for Embedded Systems☆

Jiang, Yuning  
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Fedorova, Kristina
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Su, Junyan
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March 19, 2025
European Journal Of Control

This paper presents a parallelizable suboptimal Model Predictive Control (MPC) design framework for structured linear systems with polytopic state and control constraints. The proposed real-time control policy addresses structured large-scale quadratic programming (QP) problems by deriving the control action by evaluating a finite set of piece-wise affine functions (PWA). These PWA functions are precomputed offline as explicit solutions to small-scale multiparametric QP problems that tailor this method for industrial- oriented or embedded implementation. Prioritizing computational efficiency over optimality, the proposed MPC controller ensures real-time feasibility within stringent time constraints. The key contributions include the derivation of a lower bound on the fixed number of algorithm iterations required to guarantee the closed- loop performance under assumptions and an open-source C-code library, ParExMPC, based on the proposed framework. Numerical simulations highlight the scalability of the method, accommodating systems with a high number of decision variables and extended control horizons-well beyond the capabilities of existing explicit MPC methods. Furthermore, the developed implementation of the proposed close-to-optimal control method demonstrates superior runtime performance compared to state-of-the-art implicit MPC solutions, which rely on online optimization.

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research article
DOI
10.1016/j.ejcon.2025.101217
Web of Science ID

WOS:001451401800001

Author(s)
Jiang, Yuning  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Fedorova, Kristina

Slovak University of Technology Bratislava

Su, Junyan

City University of Hong Kong

Oravec, Juraj

Slovak University of Technology Bratislava

Houska, Boris

ShanghaiTech University

Jones, Colin N  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Date Issued

2025-03-19

Publisher

ELSEVIER

Published in
European Journal Of Control
Volume

83

Article Number

101217

Start page

101217

Subjects

Model predictive control

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Multi-parametric optimization

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Real-time control

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Embedded control

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Distributed optimization

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Open-source implementation

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

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LA3  
FunderFunding(s)Grant NumberGrant URL

European Commission

101079342

Swiss National Science Foundation

51NF40_180545

Scientific Grant Agency of the MŠVVaŠ and the SAV

1/0490/23

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February 10, 2026
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