AD-MPCC: Adaptive Differentiable Model Predictive Contouring Control for Autonomous Racing

arXiv:2607.00141v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents Adaptive Differentiable Model Predictive Contouring Control (AD-MPCC), a framework for autonomous racing that integrates differentiable MPCC with online parameter estimation to handle varying road-surface conditions. For online parameter estimation, we leverage a parameterized Pacejka Magic Formula together with a regularized moving-horizon estimation scheme with exponentially decaying weights to capture road interactions and up...