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Cooperative Distributed Model Predictive Control for Embedded Systems: Experiments with Hovercraft Formations

Stomberg, Gösta
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Schwan, Roland  
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Grillo, Andrea  
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May 19, 2025
2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

This paper presents experiments for embedded cooperative distributed model predictive control applied to a team of hovercraft floating on an air hockey table. The hovercraft collectively solve a centralized optimal control problem in each sampling step via a stabilizing decentralized real-time iteration scheme using the alternating direction method of multipliers. The efficient implementation does not require a central coordinator, executes onboard the hovercraft, and facilitates sampling intervals in the millisecond range. The formation control experiments showcase the flexibility of the approach on scenarios with point-to-point transitions, trajectory tracking, collision avoidance, and moving obstacles.

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conference paper
DOI
10.1109/icra55743.2025.11128032
Author(s)
Stomberg, Gösta
Schwan, Roland  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Grillo, Andrea  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Jones, Colin N.  

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Faulwasser, Timm
Date Issued

2025-05-19

Publisher

IEEE

Published in
2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
ISBN of the book

979-8-3315-4139-2

Start page

11377

End page

11383

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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Event nameEvent acronymEvent placeEvent date
2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

ICRA 2025

Atlanta, GA, USA

2025-05-19 - 2025-05-23

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September 8, 2025
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/253876
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