Continuous-time Model Predictive Control (CMPC) of Electrical Drives and Power Converter

A continuous-time model predictive controller uses a continuous-time model in the design and the discretization comes later at the implementation stage. In this chapter, the continuous-time model predictive control algorithms derived by the first author in her previous book are applied to control electrical drives and power converters in the presence of operational constraints. In addition, a gain scheduled predictive controller is proposed to overcome the electrical drives?> nonlinearities where nonlinear circular constraint is simplified using octagon approximation. Experimental results are used to demonstrate the successful applications of the continuous-time model predictive controllers in the presence of constraints.