Choose Wisely: Data-driven Predictive Control for Nonlinear Systems Using Online Data Selection

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Main Authors: Näf, Joshua, Moffat, Keith, Eising, Jaap, Dörfler, Florian
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Published: 2025
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author Näf, Joshua
Moffat, Keith
Eising, Jaap
Dörfler, Florian
author_facet Näf, Joshua
Moffat, Keith
Eising, Jaap
Dörfler, Florian
contents This paper proposes Select-Data-driven Predictive Control (Select-DPC), a new method for controlling nonlinear systems using output-feedback for which data are available but an explicit model is not. At each timestep, Select-DPC employs only the most relevant data to implicitly linearize the dynamics in "trajectory space". Then, taking user-defined output constraints into account, it makes control decisions using a convex optimization. This optimal control is applied in a receding-horizon manner. As the online data-selection is the core of Select-DPC, we propose and verify both norm-based and manifold-embedding-based selection methods. We evaluate Select-DPC on three benchmark nonlinear system simulators -- rocket-landing, a robotic arm and cart-pole inverted pendulum swing-up -- comparing them with standard Data-enabled Predictive Control (DeePC) and Time-Windowed DeePC methods, and find that Select-DPC outperforms both methods.
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spellingShingle Choose Wisely: Data-driven Predictive Control for Nonlinear Systems Using Online Data Selection
Näf, Joshua
Moffat, Keith
Eising, Jaap
Dörfler, Florian
Systems and Control
This paper proposes Select-Data-driven Predictive Control (Select-DPC), a new method for controlling nonlinear systems using output-feedback for which data are available but an explicit model is not. At each timestep, Select-DPC employs only the most relevant data to implicitly linearize the dynamics in "trajectory space". Then, taking user-defined output constraints into account, it makes control decisions using a convex optimization. This optimal control is applied in a receding-horizon manner. As the online data-selection is the core of Select-DPC, we propose and verify both norm-based and manifold-embedding-based selection methods. We evaluate Select-DPC on three benchmark nonlinear system simulators -- rocket-landing, a robotic arm and cart-pole inverted pendulum swing-up -- comparing them with standard Data-enabled Predictive Control (DeePC) and Time-Windowed DeePC methods, and find that Select-DPC outperforms both methods.
title Choose Wisely: Data-driven Predictive Control for Nonlinear Systems Using Online Data Selection
topic Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.18845