Including Model Predictive Control (MPC) in the undergraduate/graduate control curriculum is becoming vitally important due to growing adoption of MPC many industrial areas. In this paper, we present an overview predictive course taught by authors at Imperial College London between 2018 and 2021. We discuss how evolved from focusing solely on linear formulation covering nonlinear some its exten...

The combination of model predictive control (MPC) and learning methods has been gaining increasing attention as a tool to systems that may be difficult model. Using MPC function approximator in reinforcement (RL) is one approach reduce the reliance on accurate models. RL dependent exploration learn, currently, simple heuristics based random perturbations are most common. This paper considers va...