MPC test set for QP solvers

July 23, 2026 · View on GitHub

This repository contains quadratic programs (QPs) arising from model predictive control in robotics, in a format suitable for qpbenchmark. Here is the report produced by this benchmarking tool:

The methodology and limitations of the benchmark are described in the qpbenchmark readme. This test set, in particular, does not reflect the warm-starting that is frequently used on robots that do model predictive control.

Installation

The recommended process is to install the benchmark and all solvers using pixi:

pixi install

It is also possible to install the benchmark from PyPI.

Usage

Run the test set as follows:

pixi run mpc_qpbenchmark         # full test set
pixi run mpc_qpbenchmark_dense   # dense subset
pixi run mpc_qpbenchmark_sparse  # sparse subset

The outcome, written to the results/ directory, is a standardized report comparing all available solvers against the different benchmark metrics. You can check out and post your own results in the Results forum.

Adding HPIPM to the pixi environment

The HPIPM solver is not packaged, but instructions to install from source are given in hpipm:

  • Clone BLASFEO: git clone https://github.com/giaf/blasfeo.git
  • From the BLASFEO directory, run: make shared_library -j 4
  • Check that you are in your pixi environment (pixi shell), then run:
cp -f ./lib/libblasfeo.so ${CONDA_PREFIX}/lib/
cp -f ./include/*.h ${CONDA_PREFIX}/include/
  • Clone HPIPM: git clone https://github.com/giaf/hpipm.git
  • From the HPIPM directory, run: make shared_library -j4 BLASFEO_PATH=${CONDA_PREFIX}
  • Check that you are in your pixi environment, then run:
cp -f libhpipm.so ${CONDA_PREFIX}/lib/
cp -f ./include/*.h ${CONDA_PREFIX}/include/
  • Go to hpipm/interfaces/python/hpipm_python and run pip install .
  • Try to import the package in Python:
import hpipm_python.common as hpipm

Contributions

The problems in this test set have been contributed by:

ProblemsContributorDetails
QUADCMPC*@paLeziartProposed in #1, details in this thesis
LIPMWALK*@stephane-caronProposed in #3, details in this paper
WHLIPBAL*@stephane-caronProposed in #4, details in this paper

Citation

This test set is run using qpbenchmark. If you use it in your work, you can refer to it using this citation.

See also

Related test sets that may be relevant to your use cases: