Online model predictive control of industrial processes using low level control hardware: A pilot-scale distillation column case study

B Huyck, J De Brabanter, B De Moor… - Control Engineering …, 2014 - Elsevier
Throughout the years, the computing power of industrial controllers has steadily increased.
Together with the development of efficient quadratic program (QP) solvers, this raises the …

Improving the feed-forward compensator in predictive control for setpoint tracking

G Valencia-Palomo, JA Rossiter, FR López-Estrada - ISA transactions, 2014 - Elsevier
Simple predictive control (MPC) algorithms produce a feed-forward compensator that may
be a suboptimal choice. This paper gives some insights into this issue and simple means of …