Among the several problems arising in the Airborne Wind Energy paradigm, an essential one is the control of the tethered airfoil trajectory during power generation. Tethered flight is a fast, strongly nonlinear, unstable and constrained process, motivating control approaches based on fast Non-linear Model Predictive Control. In this paper, a computationally efficient model is proposed, based on...

In this paper, a new method of predictive control is presented. In this approach, a well-known method of predictive functional control is combined with fuzzy model of the process. The prediction is based on fuzzy model given in the form of Takagi–Sugeno (T–S) type. The proposed fuzzy predictive control has been evaluated by implementation on heat-exchanger plant, which exhibits a strong nonline...

Sustainable energy sources are promising solutions for reducing carbon footprint and environmental impacts within the building sectors. Reducing consumption while ensuring thermal comfort occupants is now an essential task in climate control. Two possible ways to cut down implementing renewable sustainable sources, such as solar geothermal energy, adopting model predictive control method. In th...

This paper describes an efficient approach for nonlinear model predictive control, applied to a 6-DOF arm robot. The model is first linearized and decoupled by feedback, secondly a model predictive control scheme, implemented with an optimized dynamic model and running within small sampling period, is exhibited. Major simulation results performed using numerical values of an industrial PUMA 560...

Model predictive control requires the solution of a sequence of continuous optimization problems that are nonlinear if a nonlinear model is used for the plant. We describe briefly a trust-region feasibility-perturbed sequential quadratic programming algorithm (developed in a companion report), then discuss its adaptation to the problems arising in nonlinear model predictive control. Computation...

This paper introduces a new approach to reduce the computational load of nonlinear model based predictive controllers. The idea is based on dividing a long prediction horizon into only a few equidistant intervals with piecewise constant control signals. After solving a first dynamic optimization problem the prediction horizon is halved, keeping the second half of the solution fixed and doubling...

Any proper operation could be translated as a constrained optimization problem inside a WWTP, whose nonlinear behavior renders its control problems quite attractive for performance of multivariable optimization–based control technique algorithms, such as NMPC. The main advantage of this control technique lies in its ability to handle model nonlinearity as well as various types of constraints on...