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Title:Multi-Objective Agent-Based Model Predictive Controller for Plug-and-Play Vehicle Control
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Abstract:Functional integration is a growing trend in vehicle control, often involving the coordination of multiple controllers to achieve various objectives simultaneously. The need for flexibility and reliability has led to a "plug-and-play" approach in control system design, which presents challenges for traditional integrated model predictive control (MPC). Agent-based model predictive control (AMPC) has recently emerged as a distributed solution that treats controllers as agents, creating a collaborative framework among them to reach a common goal. However, this approach struggles to manage distributed conflicting objectives when agents are coupled or interdependent. To address this, we propose a novel, practical distributed control scheme called multi-objective AMPC, which adapts the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) into a general control strategy that approximates global optimization while decoupling objectives. We systematically develop three formulations that maintain convergence while addressing control regularization and inequality constraints, applying them to complex vehicle control systems for the first time. The proposed method has been tested on two vehicle control scenarios with a multi-objective topology. Different formulations are compared through simulations, and the most computationally efficient one was implemented on an electric vehicle for real-world evaluations. The results demonstrate that the proposed multi-objective AMPC can converge approximately to the same global optimum as integrated MPC with greater flexibility and the potential to reduce computational costs.
Comments: 12 pages, 13 figures. Author accepted manuscript
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Cite as: arXiv:2609.12108 [cs.RO]
(or arXiv:2609.12108v1 [cs.RO] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.12108
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Journal reference: IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 26, no. 12, pp. 22818-22829, December 2025
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https://doi.org/10.1109/TITS.2025.3612984
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From: Jiaming Zhong [view email] [v1] Thu, 10 Sep 2026 18:35:08 UTC (4,973 KB)
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