Optimality and Suboptimality of MPPI Control in Stochastic and Deterministic Settings
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| author | Homburger, Hannes Messerer, Florian Diehl, Moritz Reuter, Johannes |
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| contents | Model predictive path integral (MPPI) control has recently received a lot of attention, especially in the robotics and reinforcement learning communities. This letter aims to make the MPPI control framework more accessible to the optimal control community. We present three classes of optimal control problems and their solutions by MPPI. Further, we investigate the suboptimality of MPPI to general deterministic nonlinear discrete-time systems. Here, suboptimality is defined as the deviation between the control provided by MPPI and the optimal solution to the deterministic optimal control problem. Our findings are that in a smooth and unconstrained setting, the growth of suboptimality in the control input trajectory is second-order with the scaling of uncertainty. The results indicate that the suboptimality of the MPPI solution can be modulated by appropriately tuning the hyperparameters. We illustrate our findings using numerical examples. |
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| spellingShingle | Optimality and Suboptimality of MPPI Control in Stochastic and Deterministic Settings Homburger, Hannes Messerer, Florian Diehl, Moritz Reuter, Johannes Systems and Control Model predictive path integral (MPPI) control has recently received a lot of attention, especially in the robotics and reinforcement learning communities. This letter aims to make the MPPI control framework more accessible to the optimal control community. We present three classes of optimal control problems and their solutions by MPPI. Further, we investigate the suboptimality of MPPI to general deterministic nonlinear discrete-time systems. Here, suboptimality is defined as the deviation between the control provided by MPPI and the optimal solution to the deterministic optimal control problem. Our findings are that in a smooth and unconstrained setting, the growth of suboptimality in the control input trajectory is second-order with the scaling of uncertainty. The results indicate that the suboptimality of the MPPI solution can be modulated by appropriately tuning the hyperparameters. We illustrate our findings using numerical examples. |
| title | Optimality and Suboptimality of MPPI Control in Stochastic and Deterministic Settings |
| topic | Systems and Control |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.20953 |