Gain-Scheduled Data-Enabled Predictive Control: A DeePC Approach for Nonlinear Systems

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Main Authors: Guerrero, Margarita A., Lakshminarayanan, Braghadeesh, Rojas, Cristian R.
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Published: 2025
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author Guerrero, Margarita A.
Lakshminarayanan, Braghadeesh
Rojas, Cristian R.
author_facet Guerrero, Margarita A.
Lakshminarayanan, Braghadeesh
Rojas, Cristian R.
contents Model predictive control is a well established control technology for trajectory tracking. Its use requires the availability of an accurate model of the plant, but obtaining such a model is often time consuming and costly. Data-Enabled Predictive Control (DeePC) addresses this shortcoming in the linear time-invariant setting, by skipping the model building step and instead relying directly on input-output data. Unfortunately, many real systems are nonlinear and exhibit strong operating-point dependence. Building on classical linear parameter-varying control, we introduce DeePC-GS, a gain-scheduled extension of DeePC for unknown, regime-varying systems. The key idea is to allow DeePC to switch between different local Hankel matrices -- selected online via a measurable scheduling variable -- thereby uniting classical gain scheduling tools with identification-free, data-driven MPC. We test the effectiveness of our DeePC-GS formulation on a nonlinear ship-steering benchmark, demonstrating that it outperforms state-of-the-art data-driven MPC while maintaining tractable computation.
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spellingShingle Gain-Scheduled Data-Enabled Predictive Control: A DeePC Approach for Nonlinear Systems
Guerrero, Margarita A.
Lakshminarayanan, Braghadeesh
Rojas, Cristian R.
Optimization and Control
Model predictive control is a well established control technology for trajectory tracking. Its use requires the availability of an accurate model of the plant, but obtaining such a model is often time consuming and costly. Data-Enabled Predictive Control (DeePC) addresses this shortcoming in the linear time-invariant setting, by skipping the model building step and instead relying directly on input-output data. Unfortunately, many real systems are nonlinear and exhibit strong operating-point dependence. Building on classical linear parameter-varying control, we introduce DeePC-GS, a gain-scheduled extension of DeePC for unknown, regime-varying systems. The key idea is to allow DeePC to switch between different local Hankel matrices -- selected online via a measurable scheduling variable -- thereby uniting classical gain scheduling tools with identification-free, data-driven MPC. We test the effectiveness of our DeePC-GS formulation on a nonlinear ship-steering benchmark, demonstrating that it outperforms state-of-the-art data-driven MPC while maintaining tractable computation.
title Gain-Scheduled Data-Enabled Predictive Control: A DeePC Approach for Nonlinear Systems
topic Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26334