15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
COMPLEXITY REDUCTION IN EXPLICIT LINEAR MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL
Petter Tøndel* and Tor A. Johansen*
* Department of Engineering Cybernetics, Norwegian University of
Science and Technology, 7491 Trondheim, Norway.

Explicit piecewise linear (PWL) state feedback laws solving constrained linear model predictive control (MPC) problems can be obtained by solving multi-parametric quadratic programs (mp-QP)where the parameters are the elements of the state vector. This allows MPC to be implemented via a PWL function evaluation without real-time optimization. The main drawback of this approach is dramatic increase in the number of regions in the state space partition as the number of states, inputs and constraints increases. Here we study two approaches to complexity reduction. First, we consider input trajectory parameterization which significantly reduces the number of regions. Second, we develop a search tree that allows PWL function evaluation to be implemented in real time with low computational complexity.
Keywords: Linear Systems, Predictive Control, Search Methods, Piecewise Linear Controllers, Optimal Control
Session slot T-We-M17: Predictive Control/Area code 2d : Optimal Control