Learning-enabled Acceleration of Scenario-based Model Predictive Control

Abstract:Scenario-based model predictive control (SBMPC) is a variant of model predictive control (MPC) that explicitly accounts for uncertainty by optimizing control actions over multiple predicted scenarios. However, its computational complexity increases rapidly with the number of scenarios and prediction horizon, limiting its applicability to real-time planning and control. This paper presents a learning-accelerated Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) algorithm for efficiently solving SBMPC problems by leveraging parallel computing and Moreau envelope learning, while maintaining high solution accuracy. We reformulate the SBMPC problems into consensus forms that can be decomposed via ADMM, separating the scenario-dependent dynamics from non-anticipativity constraints and enabling parallel updates across scenarios and time steps. Building on this decomposition, we utilize a learning-to-optimize scheme that leverages Moreau envelope learning of the cost function to accelerate the primal update in ADMM, thereby reducing computation time. The proposed framework is evaluated on a microgrid energy management problem subject to load and renewable generation uncertainties. Comparisons with IPOPT and MadNLP, two popular and modern nonlinear programming solvers, demonstrate substantial computational speedups while maintaining reliable closed-loop control performance.

Optimization and Control (math.OC); Machine Learning (cs.LG); Systems and Control (eess.SY)

arXiv:2607.12775 [math.OC]

(or arXiv:2607.12775v2 [math.OC] for this version)

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2607.12775 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite

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