15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
IMPLEMENTATION OF MIN-MAX MPC USING HINGING HYPERPLANES. APPLICATION TO A HEAT EXCHANGER
D.R. Ramírez E.F. Camacho
Departamento de Ingeniería de Sistemas y Automática, Universidad de
Sevilla
Escuela Superior de Ingenieros
Camino de los Descubrimientos s/n 41092 Sevilla
Phone: +34 954487357 Fax: +34 954487340
email: {danirr,eduardo}@cartuja.us.es

Min-max model predictive controllers (MMMPC) have been proposed for the control of linear plants subject to bounded uncertainties. The implementation of MMMPC suffers a large computational burden due to the numerical optimization problem that has to be solved at every sampling time. This fact severely limits the range of processes in which this control is suitable. Here an implementation scheme based on hinging hyperplanes is presented. Experimental results obtained when applying the controller to a heat exchanger are given.
Keywords: Predictive control, Minimax techniques, Hinging hyperplanes, Uncertain linear systems, Process control.
Session slot T-Tu-E16: Controller Design Studies (Processing Plants)/Area code 2a : Control Design