An Overview of Nonlinear Model Predictive Con - trol

Nonlinear Adaptive Predictive Control Strategy Applied to an Interconnected Tank System

This paper presents the application of a nonlinear controller using a pre dictiv e con trol strategy to an interconnected tank system The design procedure of the controller uses the mathematical input output model of the plant based on the basic physical relations to nd a controller output The applied search strategy minimizes the cost function for a given prediction horizon Since the nonlinear...

Urban Network Throughput Optimization via Model Predictive Con- Trol Using the Link Transmission Model

A Geometric Perspective on Bifurcation Control

In this paper we analyze the problem of bifurcation con trol from a geometric perspective Our goal is to provide coordinate free geometric conditions under which con trol can be used to alter the bifurcation properties of a nonlinear control system These insights are expected to be useful in understanding the role that magnitude and rate limits play in bifurcation control as well as giving deep...

Control Structure Selection for a Reactive Distillation Column

In recent years in tegrated processes have attracted considerable attention in both academic research and industrial applications. The integration, for instance of reaction and separation, reduces the degrees of freedom and requires tigh t con trol to operate the processes at optimal conditions. F rom the available number of measurements and input variables, a con trol structure has to be iden ...

Predictive Functional Control: More than One Way to Prestabilise

It is possible to prestabilise the predictions used within Predictive Functional Control in order to increase the likelihood of a stabilising con trol design. How ev er, the minimal order approac h to prestabilisation is not always a good basis for con trol design. This w eakness is investigated and some non-minimal forms of prestabilisation are developed which are a much better basis for control.