Explicit Dead-Time Compensation in Linear Parameter Varying Model Predictive Control

Model Predictive Control (MPC) is able to directly deal with dead-time (DT) phenomena. Yet, implicit delay compensation heavily affects computational aspects of these algorithms, and stability feasibility analyses become numerically tougher. The Linear Parameter Varying (LPV) framework has been shown suitable model complex, nonlinear dynamics, corresponding MPC algorithms being developed over the last few years. Thus, we propose a novel method for DT LPV systems, using DT-free model. scheme explicitly accounts via loop, thus avoiding augmented state-space models. ensure input-to-state stability, recursive feasibility, robust constraint satisfaction w.r.t. model-mismatches estimation uncertainties. A solar collector benchmark example used illustrate advantages method, which compared against regular algorithm (with standard compensation).