L4acados: Learning-based models for acados, applied to Gaussian process-based predictive control

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Autori principali: Lahr, Amon, Näf, Joshua, Wabersich, Kim P., Frey, Jonathan, Siehl, Pascal, Carron, Andrea, Diehl, Moritz, Zeilinger, Melanie N.
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author Lahr, Amon
Näf, Joshua
Wabersich, Kim P.
Frey, Jonathan
Siehl, Pascal
Carron, Andrea
Diehl, Moritz
Zeilinger, Melanie N.
author_facet Lahr, Amon
Näf, Joshua
Wabersich, Kim P.
Frey, Jonathan
Siehl, Pascal
Carron, Andrea
Diehl, Moritz
Zeilinger, Melanie N.
contents Incorporating learning-based models, such as artificial neural networks or Gaussian processes, into model predictive control (MPC) strategies can significantly improve control performance and online adaptation capabilities for real-world applications. Still, enabling state-of-the-art implementations of learning-based models for MPC is complicated by the challenge of interfacing machine learning frameworks with real-time optimal control software. This work aims at filling this gap by incorporating external sensitivities in sequential quadratic programming solvers for nonlinear optimal control. To this end, we provide L4acados, a general framework for incorporating Python-based dynamics models in the real-time optimal control software acados. By computing external sensitivities via a user-defined Python module, L4acados enables the implementation of MPC controllers with learning-based residual models in acados, while supporting parallelization of sensitivity computations when preparing the quadratic subproblems. We demonstrate significant speed-ups and superior scaling properties of L4acados compared to available software using a neural-network-based control example. Last, we provide an efficient and modular real-time implementation of Gaussian process-based MPC using L4acados, which is applied to two hardware examples: autonomous miniature racing, as well as motion control of a full-scale autonomous vehicle for an ISO lane change maneuver.
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spellingShingle L4acados: Learning-based models for acados, applied to Gaussian process-based predictive control
Lahr, Amon
Näf, Joshua
Wabersich, Kim P.
Frey, Jonathan
Siehl, Pascal
Carron, Andrea
Diehl, Moritz
Zeilinger, Melanie N.
Systems and Control
Robotics
Optimization and Control
49M15
G.1.4; G.4
Incorporating learning-based models, such as artificial neural networks or Gaussian processes, into model predictive control (MPC) strategies can significantly improve control performance and online adaptation capabilities for real-world applications. Still, enabling state-of-the-art implementations of learning-based models for MPC is complicated by the challenge of interfacing machine learning frameworks with real-time optimal control software. This work aims at filling this gap by incorporating external sensitivities in sequential quadratic programming solvers for nonlinear optimal control. To this end, we provide L4acados, a general framework for incorporating Python-based dynamics models in the real-time optimal control software acados. By computing external sensitivities via a user-defined Python module, L4acados enables the implementation of MPC controllers with learning-based residual models in acados, while supporting parallelization of sensitivity computations when preparing the quadratic subproblems. We demonstrate significant speed-ups and superior scaling properties of L4acados compared to available software using a neural-network-based control example. Last, we provide an efficient and modular real-time implementation of Gaussian process-based MPC using L4acados, which is applied to two hardware examples: autonomous miniature racing, as well as motion control of a full-scale autonomous vehicle for an ISO lane change maneuver.
title L4acados: Learning-based models for acados, applied to Gaussian process-based predictive control
topic Systems and Control
Robotics
Optimization and Control
49M15
G.1.4; G.4
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.19258