Modelpredictivecontrol(MPC)hasalonghistoryinthefieldofcontrolen-gineering.Itisoneofthefewareasthathasreceivedon-goinginterestfromresearchersinboththeindustrialandacademiccommunities.Fourmajoras-pectsofmodelpredictivecontrolmakethedesignmethodologyattractivetobothpractitionersandacademics.Thefirstaspectisthedesignformulation,whichusesacompletelymultivariablesystemframeworkwheretheperfor-manceparametersofthemultivariablecontrolsystemarerelatedtotheengi-neeringaspectsofthesystem;hence,theycanbeunderstoodand‘tuned’byengineers.Thesecondaspectistheabilityofthemethodtohandleboth‘soft’constraintsandhardconstraintsinamultivariablecontrolframework.Thisisparticularlyattractivetoindustrywheretightprofitmarginsandlimitsontheprocessoperationareinevitablypresent.Thethirdaspectistheabilitytoperformon-lineprocessoptimization.Thefourthaspectisthesimplicityofthedesignframeworkinhandlingallthesecomplexissues.Thisbookgivesanintroductiontomodelpredictivecontrol,andrecentdevelopmentsindesignandimplementation.Beginningwithanoverviewofthefield,thebookwillsystematicallycovertopicsinrecedinghorizoncon-trol,MPCdesignformulations,constrainedcontrol,Laguerre-function-basedpredictivecontrol,predictivecontrolusingexponentialdataweighting,refor-mulationofclassicalpredictivecontrol,tuningofpredictivecontrol,aswellassimulationandimplementationusingMATLABandSIMULINKasaplatform.Bothcontinuous-timeanddiscrete-timemodelpredictivecontrolispresentedinasimilarframework.
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