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...

Typical production objectives in distillation process require the delivery of products whose compositions meet certain specifications. The distillation control system, therefore, must hold product compositions as near the set points as possible in faces of upset. In this project, inferential model predictive control, that utilizes an artificial neural network estimator and model predictive cont...

We analyze a time-coarsening strategy for model predictive control (MPC) that we call diffusing-horizon MPC. This seeks to overcome the computational challenges associated with optimal problems span multiple timescales. The coarsening approach uses time discretization grid becomes exponentially more sparse as one moves forward in time. design is motivated by recently established property of kno...