$π$MPC: A Parallel-in-horizon and Construction-free NMPC Solver

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Main Authors: Wu, Liang, Yang, Bo, Li, Junheng, Yang, Xu, Mo, Yilin, Shi, Yang, Ames, Aaron D., Drgoňa, Ján
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author Wu, Liang
Yang, Bo
Li, Junheng
Yang, Xu
Mo, Yilin
Shi, Yang
Ames, Aaron D.
Drgoňa, Ján
author_facet Wu, Liang
Yang, Bo
Li, Junheng
Yang, Xu
Mo, Yilin
Shi, Yang
Ames, Aaron D.
Drgoňa, Ján
contents The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) has gained increasing popularity in embedded model predictive control (MPC) due to its code simplicity and pain-free parameter selection. However, existing ADMM solvers either target general quadratic programming (QP) problems or exploit sparse MPC formulations via Riccati recursions, which are inherently sequential and therefore difficult to parallelize for long prediction horizons. This technical note proposes a novel \textit{parallel-in-horizon} and \textit{construction-free} nonlinear MPC algorithm, termed $π$MPC, which combines a new variable-splitting scheme with a velocity-based system representation in the ADMM framework, enabling horizon-wise parallel execution while operating directly on system matrices without explicit MPC-to-QP construction. Numerical experiments and accompanying code are provided to validate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
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spellingShingle $π$MPC: A Parallel-in-horizon and Construction-free NMPC Solver
Wu, Liang
Yang, Bo
Li, Junheng
Yang, Xu
Mo, Yilin
Shi, Yang
Ames, Aaron D.
Drgoňa, Ján
Optimization and Control
Systems and Control
The alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) has gained increasing popularity in embedded model predictive control (MPC) due to its code simplicity and pain-free parameter selection. However, existing ADMM solvers either target general quadratic programming (QP) problems or exploit sparse MPC formulations via Riccati recursions, which are inherently sequential and therefore difficult to parallelize for long prediction horizons. This technical note proposes a novel \textit{parallel-in-horizon} and \textit{construction-free} nonlinear MPC algorithm, termed $π$MPC, which combines a new variable-splitting scheme with a velocity-based system representation in the ADMM framework, enabling horizon-wise parallel execution while operating directly on system matrices without explicit MPC-to-QP construction. Numerical experiments and accompanying code are provided to validate the effectiveness of the proposed method.
title $π$MPC: A Parallel-in-horizon and Construction-free NMPC Solver
topic Optimization and Control
Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14414