15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
FUZZY OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS IN MULTIVARIABLE PREDICTIVE CONTROL
L.F. Mendonça, J.M. Sousa and J.M. Sá da Costa
Technical University of Lisbon, Instituto Superior Técnico
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering/GCAR-IDMEC
Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001 Lisbon, Portugal
Phone: +351-21-8417313, E-mail:
{mendonca,j.sousa,sadacosta}@dem.ist.utl.pt

In order to incorporate fuzzy goals and constraints in model predictive control, this control technique have recently been integrated with fuzzy decision making. The goals and the constraints of the control problem are combined by using a decision function from the theory of fuzzy sets. This technique have been studied for single-input single-output processes. This paper extends this study for multivariable processes. The simulation of a gantry crane system is used as case study. The results show clearly the advantage of using fuzzy predictive control in multivariable systems.
Keywords: Fuzzy systems, decision making, fuzzy control, predictive control, model-based control, control applications
Session slot T-Mo-M04: Fuzzy control theory/Area code 3e : Fuzzy and Neural Systems