15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
APPROXIMATE EXPLICIT MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL IMPLEMENTED VIA ORTHOGONAL SEARCH TREE PARTITIONING
Tor A. Johansen* and Alexandra Grancharova1,*
* Department of Engineering Cybernetics, Norwegian University
of Science and Technology, 7491 Trondheim, Norway.

Solutions to constrained linear model predictive control (MPC) problems can be pre-computed off-line in an explicit form as a piecewise linear (PWL) state feedback defined on a polyhedral partitioning of the state space. Even though real-time optimization is avoided, implementation of the PWL state feedback may still require a significant amount of computations. We suggest an algorithm that will determine an approximate explicit PWL state feedback solution by imposing an orthogonalsearch tree structure on the partition. This leads to efficient real-time computations and implementation at high sampling frequencies in embedded systems with inexpensive processors and low software complexity. The algorithm yield guarantees on the cost function error and constraint violations.

1Corresponding Author: Institute of Control and System Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Acad. G. Bonchev str., Nl2, P.O.Box 79, Sofia 1113, Bulgaria.

E-mail: Tor.Arne.Johansen@itk.ntnu.no
Session slot T-We-M17: Predictive Control/Area code 2d : Optimal Control