Nonparametric nonlinear model predictive control

Nonparametric Nonlinear Model Predictive Control

−Model Predictive Control (MPC) has recently found wide acceptance in industrial applications, but its potential has been much impeded by linear models due to the lack of a similarly accepted nonlinear modeling or databased technique. Aimed at solving this problem, the paper addresses three issues: (i) extending second-order Volterra nonlinear MPC (NMPC) to higher-order for improved prediction ...

Nonlinear Model Predictive Control

Improved Optimization Process for Nonlinear Model Predictive Control of PMSM

Model-based predictive control (MPC) is one of the most efficient techniques that is widely used in industrial applications. In such controllers, increasing the prediction horizon results in better selection of the optimal control signal sequence. On the other hand, increasing the prediction horizon increase the computational time of the optimization process which make it impossible to be imple...

Efficient Nonlinear Model Predictive Control

The growing interest in model predictive control for nonlinear systems, also called NMPC, is motivated by the fact that today’s processes need to be operated under tighter performance specifications to guarantee profitable and environmentally safe production. One of the remaining essential problems for NMPC is the high on-line computational load. At each sampling instant, a nonlinear optimal co...

Stability and Continuity of Nonlinear Model Predictive Control Stability and Continuity of Nonlinear Model Predictive Control Stability and Continuity of Nonlinear Model Predictive Control

Acknowledgments I would like to express my appreciation to my advisor, Dr. James B. Rawl-ings. His diicult questions have pushed this work forward when it stalled and his insight has allowed me to progress when it seemed impossible. His vision of computing in this profession has provided his research group with the best computer facilities at the University. The work reported in this dis-sertat...