1. Time-Varying Scheme for Noncentralized Model Predictive Control of Large-Scale Systems.
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Núñez, Alfredo, Ocampo-Martinez, Carlos, Maestre, José María, and De Schutter, Bart
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TIME-varying systems , *MATHEMATICAL models , *PREDICTIVE control systems , *COMBINATORIAL optimization , *PROBLEM solving - Abstract
The noncentralized model predictive control (NC-MPC) framework in this paper refers to any distributed, hierarchical, or decentralized model predictive controller (or a combination of them) the structure of which can change over time and the control actions of which are not obtained based on a centralized computation. Within this framework, we propose suitable online methods to decide which information is shared and how this information is used between the different local predictive controllers operating in a decentralized, distributed, and/or hierarchical way. Evaluating all the possible structures of the NC-MPC controller leads to a combinatorial optimization problem. Therefore, we also propose heuristic reduction methods, to keep the number of NC-MPC problems tractable to be solved. To show the benefits of the proposed framework, a case study of a set of coupled water tanks is presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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