MPC for Max-Plus-Linear Systems with Guaranteed Stability

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T. J. J. van den Boom and B. De Schutter, "MPC for max-plus-linear systems with guaranteed stability," Proceedings of the 16th IFAC World Congress, Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 1-6, July 2005.

Abstract

Model predictive control (MPC) is a popular controller design technique in the process industry. Conventional MPC uses linear or nonlinear discrete-time models. Previously, we have extended MPC to a class of discrete event systems that can be described by a model that is "linear" in the max-plus algebra. In this paper we consider the stability of MPC for these max-plus linear (MPL) systems, and we derive an MPL-MPC equivalent of the conventional end-point constraint. We show that with this end-point constraint the optimized cost function can be seen as a Lyapunov function for the system and can thus be used to prove stability.

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@inproceedings{vanDeS:04-032,
   author    = {van den Boom, Ton J. J. and De Schutter, Bart},
   title     = {{MPC} for Max-Plus-Linear Systems with Guaranteed Stability},
   booktitle = {Proceedings of the 16th IFAC World Congress},
   address   = {Prague, Czech Republic},
   pages     = {1--6},
   month     = jul,
   year      = {2005}
   }


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