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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 02, 2009
Jaroslav Pekar, Pacov, CZ;
Greg Strewart, North Vancouver, CA;
Dejan Kihas, Burnaby, CA;
Francesco Borrelli, Berkeley, CA (US);
Jaroslav Pekar, Pacov, CZ;
Greg Strewart, North Vancouver, CA;
Dejan Kihas, Burnaby, CA;
Francesco Borrelli, Berkeley, CA (US);
Honeywell International Inc., Morristown, NJ (US);
Abstract
A method and system for combining a feedback control and a feedforward control in a linear MPC to minimize effect of model uncertainty. An externally computed feedforward signal, which is more accurate and reliable, can be utilized in association with the MPC, A steady state relation between system parameters can be determined in order to compute the feedforward signal for a set of actuators associated with a non-linear system. A feedback MPC controller can then be designed. A state observer can be configured as an unknown input observer to estimate the effect of the feedforward signal. A strategy for manipulating the constraints of the MPC feedback signal can be implemented. A resulting control action for the actuators can be provided as a sum of corresponding feedback and feedforward signal while ensuring the constraints satisfaction.