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acados—a modular open-source framework for fast embedded optimal control

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Verschueren, Robin, Frison, Gianluca, Kouzoupis, Dimitris, Frey, Jonathan, Duijkeren, Niels van, Zanelli, Andrea, Novoselnik, Branimir, Albin, Thivaharan, Quirynen, Rien, Diehl, Moritz·2022·Mathematical Programming Computation
DOI 10.1007/s12532-021-00208-8
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This paper presents the acados software package, a collection of solvers for fast embedded optimization intended for fast embedded applications. Its interfaces to higher-level languages make it useful for quickly designing an optimization-based control algorithm by putting together different algorithmic components that can be readily connected and interchanged. Since the core of acados is written on top of a high-performance linear algebra library, we do not sacrifice computational performance. Thus, we aim to provide both flexibility and performance through modularity, without the need to rely on automatic code generation, which facilitates maintainability and extensibility. The main features of acados are: efficient optimal control algorithms targeting embedded devices implemented in C, linear algebra based on the high-performance BLASFEO Frison (ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software (TOMS) 44: 1–30, 2018) library, user-friendly interfaces to Matlab and Python, and compatibility with the modeling language of CasADi Andersson (Mathematical Programming Computation 11: 136, 2019). acados is free and open-source software released under the permissive BSD 2-Clause license.

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Verschueren, R., Frison, G., Kouzoupis, D., Frey, J., Duijkeren, N. V., Zanelli, A., Novoselnik, B., Albin, T., Quirynen, R., & Diehl, M.
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Mathematical Programming Computation
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2021-10-09
Volume
14
Issue
1
Pages
147-183
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  • 1867-2949 (ISSN-L)
  • 1867-2957
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10.1007/s12532-021-00208-8
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Verschueren, R., Frison, G., Kouzoupis, D., Frey, J., Duijkeren, N. V., Zanelli, A., Novoselnik, B., Albin, T., Quirynen, R., & Diehl, M. (2022). acados—a modular open-source framework for fast embedded optimal control. Mathematical Programming Computation. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12532-021-00208-8

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