Rien Quirynen
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Research / Technical Staff
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Ph.D., KU Leuven and University of Freiburg, 2017 -
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Biography
Rien's research interests are in model predictive control and moving horizon estimation, numerical algorithms for (nonlinear) dynamic optimization and real-time control applications. His doctoral research was focused on numerical simulation methods with efficient sensitivity propagation for real-time optimal control algorithms.
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News & Events
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NEWS MERL Control and Dynamical Systems Group presented 8 papers at IFAC NMPC conference Date: August 19, 2018 - August 22, 2018
Where: IFAC NMPC, Madison, WI
MERL Contacts: Claus Danielson; Stefano Di Cairano; Rien Quirynen
Research Areas: Control, Dynamical SystemsBrief- The 6th IFAC Conference on Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC), http://www.nmpc2018.org/, is a highly focused conference that attracts experts in this area from around the world. Members of the Control and Dynamical Systems group presented 8 papers (out of the 149 at the conference!) Stefano Di Cairano delivered one of the 7 plenary lectures entitled "Contract-Based Design of Control Architectures by Model Predictive Control."
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NEWS Control and Dynamical Systems members to deliver 10 papers at American Control Conference Date: June 26, 2018 - June 29, 2018
Where: ACC2018 Milwakee
MERL Contacts: Heejin Ahn; Ankush Chakrabarty; Stefano Di Cairano; Uroš Kalabić; Rien Quirynen; Yebin Wang; Avishai Weiss
Research Areas: Control, Dynamical SystemsBrief- At the American Control Conference June 26-29, http://acc2018.a2c2.org/, MERL members will give 10 papers on subjects including model predictive control, embedded optimization, urban path planning, motor control, estimation, and calibration.
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MERL Publications
- , "Control Architecture Design for Autonomous Vehicles", Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA), August 2018.
- , "Quasi-Newton Jacobian and Hessian Updates for Pseudospectral based NMPC", IFAC Conference on Nonlinear Model Predictive Control, August 2018.
- , "Preconditioning of conjugate gradient iterations in interior point MPC method", IFAC Conference on Nonlinear Model Predictive Control, August 2018.
- , "Preconditioned Krylov iterations and condensing in interior point MPC method", IFAC Conference on Nonlinear Model Predictive Control, August 2018.
- , "Projected Preconditioning within a Block-Sparse Active-Set Method for MPC", IFAC Conference on Nonlinear Model Predictive Control, August 2018.
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Other Publications
- , "Hardware Tailored Linear Algebra for Implicit Integrators in Embedded NMPC", Proceedings of the IFAC World Congress, 2017.BibTeX
- @Inproceedings{Frison2017,
- author = {Frison, G. and Quirynen, R. and Zanelli, A. and Diehl, M. and Jorgensen, J. B.},
- title = {Hardware Tailored Linear Algebra for Implicit Integrators in Embedded NMPC},
- booktitle = {Proceedings of the IFAC World Congress},
- year = 2017
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- , "Implicit Integrators for Linear Dynamics Coupled to a Nonlinear Static Feedback and Application to Wind Turbine Control", Proceedings of the IFAC World Congress, 2017.BibTeX
- @Inproceedings{Gros2017,
- author = {Gros, S. and Quirynen, R. and Schild, A. and Diehl, M.},
- title = {Implicit Integrators for Linear Dynamics Coupled to a Nonlinear Static Feedback and Application to Wind Turbine Control},
- booktitle = {Proceedings of the IFAC World Congress},
- year = 2017
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- , "Numerical Simulation Methods for Embedded Optimization", 2017, KU Leuven and University of Freiburg.BibTeX
- @Phdthesis{Quirynen2017,
- author = {Quirynen, R.},
- title = {Numerical Simulation Methods for Embedded Optimization},
- school = {KU Leuven and University of Freiburg},
- year = 2017
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- , "Efficient Symmetric Hessian Propagation for Direct Optimal Control", Journal of Process Control, Vol. 50, pp. 19-28, 2017.BibTeX
- @Article{Quirynen2017a,
- author = {Quirynen, R. and Houska, B. and Diehl, M.},
- title = {Efficient Symmetric Hessian Propagation for Direct Optimal Control},
- journal = {Journal of Process Control},
- year = 2017,
- volume = 50,
- pages = {19--28}
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- , "Robust MPC via min-max differential inequalities", Automatica, Vol. 77, pp. 311-321, March 2017.BibTeX
- @Article{Villanueva2017,
- author = {Villanueva, M. E. and Quirynen, R. and Diehl, M. and Chachuat, B. and Houska, B.},
- title = {Robust MPC via min-max differential inequalities},
- journal = {Automatica},
- year = 2017,
- volume = 77,
- pages = {311--321},
- month = mar
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- , "A Homotopy-based Nonlinear Interior Point Method for NMPC Applications", Proceedings of the IFAC World Congress, 2017.BibTeX
- @Inproceedings{Zanelli2017,
- author = {Zanelli, A. and Quirynen, R. and Jerez, J. and Diehl, M.},
- title = {A Homotopy-based Nonlinear Interior Point Method for NMPC Applications},
- booktitle = {Proceedings of the IFAC World Congress},
- year = 2017
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- , "Nonlinear MPC for Combustion Engine Control: A Parameter Study for Realizing Real-Time Feasibility", Proceedings of the IEEE Multi-conference on Systems and Control (MSC), 2016, pp. 311-316.BibTeX
- @Inproceedings{Albin2016,
- author = {Albin, T. and Frank, F. and Ritter, D. and Abel, D. and Quirynen, R. and Diehl, M.},
- title = {Nonlinear MPC for Combustion Engine Control: A Parameter Study for Realizing Real-Time Feasibility},
- booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE Multi-conference on Systems and Control (MSC)},
- year = 2016,
- pages = {311--316}
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- , "In-Vehicle Realization of Nonlinear MPC for Gasoline Two-Stage Turbocharging Airpath Control", IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 2016.BibTeX
- @Article{Albin2016a,
- author = {Albin, T. and Ritter, D. and Quirynen, R. and Diehl, M.},
- title = {In-Vehicle Realization of Nonlinear MPC for Gasoline Two-Stage Turbocharging Airpath Control},
- journal = {IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology},
- year = 2016,
- note = {(submitted)}
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- , "From Linear to Nonlinear MPC: bridging the gap via the Real-Time Iteration", International Journal of Control, 2016.BibTeX
- @Article{Gros2016,
- author = {Gros, S. and Zanon, M. and Quirynen, R. and Bemporad, A. and Diehl, M.},
- title = {From Linear to Nonlinear MPC: bridging the gap via the Real-Time Iteration},
- journal = {International Journal of Control},
- year = 2016
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- , "A Block Based ALADIN Scheme for Highly Parallelizable Direct Optimal Control", Proceedings of the American Control Conference (ACC), 2016, pp. 1124-1129.BibTeX
- @Inproceedings{Kouzoupis2016,
- author = {Kouzoupis, D. and Quirynen, R. and Houska, B. and Diehl, M.},
- title = {A Block Based ALADIN Scheme for Highly Parallelizable Direct Optimal Control},
- booktitle = {Proceedings of the American Control Conference (ACC)},
- year = 2016,
- pages = {1124--1129}
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- , "An Efficient SQP Algorithm for Moving Horizon Estimation with Huber Penalties and Multi-Rate Measurements", Proceedings of the IEEE Multi-conference on Systems and Control (MSC), 2016, pp. 1482-1487.BibTeX
- @Inproceedings{Kouzoupis2016a,
- author = {Kouzoupis, D. and Quirynen, R. and Girrbach, F. and Diehl, M.},
- title = {An Efficient SQP Algorithm for Moving Horizon Estimation with Huber Penalties and Multi-Rate Measurements},
- booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE Multi-conference on Systems and Control (MSC)},
- year = 2016,
- pages = {1482--1487}
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- , "A Quadratically Convergent Primal Decomposition Algorithm with Soft Coupling for Nonlinear Parameter Estimation", Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2016.BibTeX
- @Inproceedings{Kouzoupis2016b,
- author = {Kouzoupis, D. and Quirynen, R. and Lago Garcia, J. and Erhard, M. and Diehl, M.},
- title = {A Quadratically Convergent Primal Decomposition Algorithm with Soft Coupling for Nonlinear Parameter Estimation},
- booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)},
- year = 2016
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- , "Symmetric Hessian propagation for lifted collocation integrators in direct optimal control.", Proceedings of the American Control Conference (ACC), 2016, pp. 1117-1123.BibTeX
- @Inproceedings{Quirynen2016,
- author = {Quirynen, R. and Houska, B. and Diehl, M.},
- title = {Symmetric Hessian propagation for lifted collocation integrators in direct optimal control.},
- booktitle = {Proceedings of the American Control Conference (ACC)},
- year = 2016,
- pages = {1117--1123}
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- , "Inexact Newton-Type Optimization with Iterated Sensitivities", SIAM Journal on Optimization (accepted, preprint available at Optimization Online, 2016-06-5502), 2016.BibTeX
- @Article{Quirynen2016a,
- author = {Quirynen, R. and Gros, S. and Diehl, M.},
- title = {Inexact Newton-Type Optimization with Iterated Sensitivities},
- journal = {SIAM Journal on Optimization (accepted, preprint available at Optimization Online, 2016-06-5502)},
- year = 2016
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- , "Lifted Collocation Integrators for Direct Optimal Control in ACADO Toolkit", Mathematical Programming Computation (accepted, preprint available at Optimization Online, 2016-05-5468), 2016.BibTeX
- @Article{Quirynen2016b,
- author = {Quirynen, R. and Gros, S. and Houska, B. and Diehl, M.},
- title = {Lifted Collocation Integrators for Direct Optimal Control in ACADO Toolkit},
- journal = {Mathematical Programming Computation (accepted, preprint available at Optimization Online, 2016-05-5468)},
- year = 2016
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- , "Exploiting Convexity in Direct Optimal Control: a Sequential Convex Quadratic Programming Method", Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2016.BibTeX
- @Inproceedings{Verschueren2016,
- author = {Verschueren, R. and van Duijkeren, N. and Quirynen, R. and Diehl, M.},
- title = {Exploiting Convexity in Direct Optimal Control: a Sequential Convex Quadratic Programming Method},
- booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)},
- year = 2016
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- , "Time-optimal Race Car Driving using an Online Exact Hessian based Nonlinear MPC Algorithm", Proceedings of the European Control Conference (ECC), 2016.BibTeX
- @Inproceedings{Verschueren2016b,
- author = {Verschueren, R. and Zanon, M. and Quirynen, R. and Diehl, M.},
- title = {Time-optimal Race Car Driving using an Online Exact Hessian based Nonlinear MPC Algorithm},
- booktitle = {Proceedings of the European Control Conference (ECC)},
- year = 2016
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- , "A Sparsity Preserving Convexification Procedure for Indefinite Quadratic Programs Arising in Direct Optimal Control", SIAM Journal on Optimization (accepted, preprint available at Optimization Online, 2016-06-5512), 2016.BibTeX
- @Article{Verschueren2016c,
- author = {Verschueren, R. and Zanon, M. and Quirynen, R. and Diehl, M.},
- title = {A Sparsity Preserving Convexification Procedure for Indefinite Quadratic Programs Arising in Direct Optimal Control},
- journal = {SIAM Journal on Optimization (accepted, preprint available at Optimization Online, 2016-06-5512)},
- year = 2016
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- , "An efficient inexact NMPC scheme with stability and feasibility guarantees", Proceedings of 10th IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems, August 2016.BibTeX
- @Inproceedings{Zanelli2016,
- author = {Zanelli, A. and Quirynen, R. and Diehl, M.},
- title = {An efficient inexact NMPC scheme with stability and feasibility guarantees},
- booktitle = {Proceedings of 10th IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems},
- year = 2016,
- address = {Monterey, CA, USA},
- month = aug
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- , "Nonlinear MPC for a Two-Stage Turbocharged Gasoline Engine Airpath", Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2015, pp. 849-856.BibTeX
- @Inproceedings{Albin2015,
- author = {Albin, T. and Ritter, D. and Abel, D. and Liberda, N. and Quirynen, R. and Diehl, M.},
- title = {Nonlinear MPC for a Two-Stage Turbocharged Gasoline Engine Airpath},
- booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)},
- year = 2015,
- pages = {849--856}
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- , "Block Condensing for Fast Nonlinear MPC with the Dual Newton Strategy", Proceedings of the IFAC Conference on Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC), 2015, vol. 48, pp. 26-31.BibTeX
- @Inproceedings{Kouzoupis2015b,
- author = {Kouzoupis, D. and Quirynen, R. and Frasch, J. V. and Diehl, M.},
- title = {Block Condensing for Fast Nonlinear MPC with the Dual Newton Strategy},
- booktitle = {Proceedings of the IFAC Conference on Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC)},
- year = 2015,
- volume = 48,
- number = 23,
- pages = {26--31}
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- , "A Compression Algorithm for Real-Time Distributed Nonlinear MPC", Proceedings of the European Control Conference (ECC), 2015, pp. 3422-3427.BibTeX
- @Inproceedings{Quirynen2015,
- author = {Quirynen, R. and Zanon, M. and Kozma, A. and Diehl, M.},
- title = {A Compression Algorithm for Real-Time Distributed Nonlinear MPC},
- booktitle = {Proceedings of the European Control Conference (ECC)},
- year = 2015,
- pages = {3422--3427}
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- , "Lifted implicit integrators for direct optimal control", Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2015, pp. 3212-3217.BibTeX
- @Inproceedings{Quirynen2015a,
- author = {Quirynen, R. and Gros, S. and Diehl, M.},
- title = {Lifted implicit integrators for direct optimal control},
- booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)},
- year = 2015,
- pages = {3212--3217}
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- , "Inexact Newton based Lifted Implicit Integrators for fast Nonlinear MPC", Proceedings of the IFAC Conference on Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC), 2015, pp. 32-38.BibTeX
- @Inproceedings{Quirynen2015b,
- author = {Quirynen, R. and Gros, S. and Diehl, M.},
- title = {Inexact Newton based Lifted Implicit Integrators for fast Nonlinear MPC},
- booktitle = {Proceedings of the IFAC Conference on Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC)},
- year = 2015,
- pages = {32--38}
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- , "Multiple Shooting in a Microsecond" in Multiple Shooting and Time Domain Decomposition Methods, pp. 183-201, Springer, 2015.BibTeX
- @Incollection{Quirynen2015c,
- author = {Quirynen, R. and Vukov, M. and Diehl, M.},
- title = {Multiple Shooting in a Microsecond},
- booktitle = {Multiple Shooting and Time Domain Decomposition Methods},
- year = 2015,
- pages = {183--201},
- publisher = {Springer}
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- , "Nonlinear MPC for Emission Efficient Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control", Proceedings of the IFAC Conference on Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC), 2015.BibTeX
- @Inproceedings{Schmied2015,
- author = {Schmied, R. and Waschl, H. and Quirynen, R. and Diehl, M. and del Re, L.},
- title = {Nonlinear MPC for Emission Efficient Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control},
- booktitle = {Proceedings of the IFAC Conference on Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC)},
- year = 2015
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- , "Experimental Validation of Combined Nonlinear Optimal Control and Estimation of an Overhead Crane", Proceedings of the IFAC World Congress, 2014, pp. 9617-9622.BibTeX
- @Inproceedings{Debrouwere2014,
- author = {Debrouwere, F. and Vukov, M. and Quirynen, R. and Diehl, M. and Swevers, J.},
- title = {Experimental Validation of Combined Nonlinear Optimal Control and Estimation of an Overhead Crane},
- booktitle = {Proceedings of the IFAC World Congress},
- year = 2014,
- pages = {9617--9622}
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- , "An Improved Real-time NMPC Scheme for Wind Turbine Control using Spline-Interpolated Aerodynamic Coefficients", Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2014.BibTeX
- @Inproceedings{Gros2014b,
- author = {Gros, S. and Quirynen, R. and Diehl, M.},
- title = {An Improved Real-time NMPC Scheme for Wind Turbine Control using Spline-Interpolated Aerodynamic Coefficients},
- booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)},
- year = 2014
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- , "LSSVM based initialization approach for parameter estimation of dynamical systems", Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2014.BibTeX
- @Article{Mehrkanoon2014,
- author = {Mehrkanoon, S. and Quirynen, R. and Diehl, M. and Suykens, J. AK},
- title = {LSSVM based initialization approach for parameter estimation of dynamical systems},
- journal = {Journal of Physics: Conference Series},
- year = 2014
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- , "Autogenerating Microsecond Solvers for Nonlinear MPC: a Tutorial Using ACADO Integrators", Optimal Control Applications and Methods, Vol. 36, pp. 685-704, 2014.BibTeX
- @Article{Quirynen2014a,
- author = {Quirynen, R. and Vukov, M. and Zanon, M. and Diehl, M.},
- title = {Autogenerating Microsecond Solvers for Nonlinear MPC: a Tutorial Using ACADO Integrators},
- journal = {Optimal Control Applications and Methods},
- year = 2014,
- volume = 36,
- pages = {685--704}
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- , "Symmetric Algorithmic Differentiation Based Exact Hessian SQP Method and Software for Economic MPC", Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2014, pp. 2752-2757.BibTeX
- @Inproceedings{Quirynen2014c,
- author = {Quirynen, R. and Houska, B. and Vallerio, M. and Telen, D. and Logist, F. and Impe, J. Van and Diehl, M.},
- title = {Symmetric Algorithmic Differentiation Based Exact Hessian SQP Method and Software for Economic MPC},
- booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)},
- year = 2014,
- pages = {2752--2757}
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- , "Optimal experiment design for nonlinear dynamic (bio)chemical systems using sequential semidefinite programming", AIChE (American Institute of Chemical Engineers) Journal, Vol. 60, No. 5, pp. 1728-1739, 2014.BibTeX
- @Article{Telen2014,
- author = {Telen, D. and Logist, F. and Quirynen, R. and Houska, B. and Diehl, M. and Impe, J. Van},
- title = {Optimal experiment design for nonlinear dynamic (bio)chemical systems using sequential semidefinite programming},
- journal = {AIChE (American Institute of Chemical Engineers) Journal},
- year = 2014,
- volume = 60,
- number = 5,
- pages = {1728--1739}
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- , "Fast auto generated ACADO integrators and application to MHE with multi-rate measurements", Proceedings of the European Control Conference (ECC), 2013, pp. 3077-3082.BibTeX
- @Inproceedings{Quirynen2013,
- author = {Quirynen, R. and Gros, S. and Diehl, M.},
- title = {Fast auto generated ACADO integrators and application to MHE with multi-rate measurements},
- booktitle = {Proceedings of the European Control Conference (ECC)},
- year = 2013,
- pages = {3077--3082}
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- , "Efficient NMPC for nonlinear models with linear subsystems", Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2013, pp. 5101-5106.BibTeX
- @Inproceedings{Quirynen2013a,
- author = {Quirynen, R. and Gros, S. and Diehl, M.},
- title = {Efficient NMPC for nonlinear models with linear subsystems},
- booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)},
- year = 2013,
- pages = {5101--5106}
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- , "Aircraft Control Based on Fast Nonlinear MPC & Multiple-shooting", Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2012.BibTeX
- @Inproceedings{Gros2012e,
- author = {Gros, S. and Quirynen, R. and Diehl, M.},
- title = {Aircraft Control Based on Fast Nonlinear MPC & Multiple-shooting},
- booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)},
- year = 2012
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- , "Automatic code generation of Implicit Runge-Kutta integrators with continuous output for fast embedded optimization", 2012, KU Leuven.BibTeX
- @Mastersthesis{Quirynen2012,
- author = {Quirynen, R.},
- title = {Automatic code generation of Implicit Runge-Kutta integrators with continuous output for fast embedded optimization},
- school = {KU Leuven},
- year = 2012
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- , "Auto Generation of Implicit Integrators for Embedded NMPC with Microsecond Sampling Times", Proceedings of the 4th IFAC Nonlinear Model Predictive Control Conference, 2012, pp. 175-180.BibTeX
- @Inproceedings{Quirynen2012a,
- author = {Quirynen, R. and Vukov, M. and Diehl, M.},
- title = {Auto Generation of Implicit Integrators for Embedded NMPC with Microsecond Sampling Times},
- booktitle = {Proceedings of the 4th IFAC Nonlinear Model Predictive Control Conference},
- year = 2012,
- pages = {175--180}
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- , "Hardware Tailored Linear Algebra for Implicit Integrators in Embedded NMPC", Proceedings of the IFAC World Congress, 2017.
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