Receding Horizon Control of Nonlinear Systems

Authors

David Q. Mayne, Hannah Michalska

Year

1988

Conference Paper

Algorithm

Receding Horizon Control

Source

Proceedings of the 27th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Identifiers

DOI 10.1109/CDC.1988.194354

Abstract¶

The receding-horizon control strategy provides a relatively simple method for determining feedback control for linear or nonlinear systems: the method is especially useful for the control of slow nonlinear systems, such as chemical batch processes, where it is possible to solve, sequentially, open-loop, fixed-horizon, optimal control problems online. The authors show that the method yields a stable closed-loop system when applied to nonlinear systems.

Summary¶

Foundational paper establishing that the receding horizon (model predictive) control strategy produces a stable closed-loop system for nonlinear systems, not just linear ones. By sequentially solving finite-horizon open-loop optimal control problems online, the method provides feedback control with a stability guarantee.