“…Equivalently, a performance criterion can also be defined in terms of the weighted sum of objective functions written individually for each subsystem (STEWART et al, 2010), which is employed in other DMPC formulations based on OPOM (SANTANA; MARTINS; ODLOAK, 2020b; SARAPKA; MARTINS; ODLOAK, 2021). However, compared with Santana, Martins and Odloak (2020b) and Sarapka, Martins and Odloak (2021), the approach used in this work results in a more compact performance index. Moreover, unlike in Sarapka, Martins and Odloak (2021), the use of a large set of slack variables related to the offset in the outputs is avoided here, which simplifies the control problem.…”