15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
NONLINEAR MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL WITH POLYTOPIC INVARIANT SETS
M. Cannon* V. Deshmukh* B. Kouvaritakis*
* University of Oxford, Department of Engineering Science, Parks
Road, Oxford, OX1 3PJ, UK, email: mark.cannon@eng.ox.ac.uk

Ellipsoidal invariant sets have been widely used as target sets in MPC. These sets can be computed by constructing appropriate Linear Difference Inclusions together with additional constraints to ensure that the ellipsoid lies within a given Inclusion Polytope. The choice of this polytope has a significant effect on the size of the computed ellipsoid, but the optimal inclusion polytope cannot in general be computed systematically. This paper shows that use of polytopic invariant sets overcomes this difficulty, resulting in larger stabilizable sets without loss of closed-loop performance. In the interests of online efficiency, consideration is focused on interpolation-based NMPC.
Keywords: polytopic invariant sets; optimization; nonlinear systems; constrained control
Session slot T-Fr-M07: Nonlinear Predicitive Control/Area code 2c : Non-linear Systems