Nestor Deniz

2papers

2 Papers

7.0SYJun 4
MPC for nonlinear systems: a comparative review of discretization methods

Guido Sanchez, Marina Murillo, Lucas Genzelis et al.

This work provides a comparative review of three different numerical methods generally used to discretize continuous-time non-linear equations appearing in model predictive control problems: direct multiple shooting, direct collocation and successive linearizations. An overview of the characteristics of each method is given and the performance of each method is evaluated through the simulation of two test cases.

1.8ROApr 6
Outlier-Robust Nonlinear Moving Horizon Estimation using Adaptive Loss Functions

Nestor Deniz, Guido Sanchez, Fernando Auat Cheein et al.

In this work, we propose an adaptive robust loss function framework for MHE, integrating an adaptive robust loss function to reduce the impact of outliers with a regularization term that avoids naive solutions. The proposed approach prioritizes the fitting of uncontaminated data and downweights the contaminated ones. A tuning parameter is incorporated into the framework to control the shape of the loss function for adjusting the estimator's robustness to outliers. The simulation results demonstrate that adaptation occurs in just a few iterations, whereas the traditional behaviour $\mathrm{L_2}$ predominates when the measurements are free of outliers.