Parsimonious cooperative distributed MPC algorithms for offset-free tracking

Abstract

We propose in this paper novel cooperative distributed MPC algorithms for tracking of piecewise constant setpoints in linear discrete-time systems. The available literature for cooperative tracking requires that each local controller uses the centralized state dynamics while optimizing over its local input sequence. Furthermore, each local controller must consider a centralized target model. The proposed algorithms instead use a suitably augmented local system, which in general has lower dimension compared to the centralized system. The same parsimonious parameterization is exploited to define a target model in which only a subset of the overall steady-state input is the decision variable. Consequently the optimization problems to be solved by each local controller are made simpler. We also present a distributed offset-free MPC algorithm for tracking in the presence of modeling errors and disturbances, and we illustrate the main features and advantages of the proposed methods by means of a multiple evaporator process case study

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