Robust tube-based MPC with enlarging the region of attraction for tracking of switched systems

Abstract

This paper addresses a robust tube based model predictive control (RTBMPC) strategy for tracking problem of piecewise affine (PWA) linear systems. The core idea of the RTBMPC strategy is to robustly control an uncertain system through its nominal system and an additional feedback term which rejects a bounded additive disturbance. In tracking problem, RTBMPC strategy should be capable to steer the uncertain system to a given setpoint fulfilling the constraints. But if the setpoint changes, the controller may not success due to the loss of feasibility of the optimization problem. This paper employs several novel features to deal with tracking problem. First, the tracking problem is converted into the regulation problem by introducing an extra system called regulation nominal system that its constraints are translated from tracking into regulation. It leads to a reduction in complexity of the objective function. Then, the feasibility region is enlarged for given setpoint without increasing the prediction horizon by changing the terminal constraint set at different steps of RTBMPC problem solving. Simulation examples, including two different case studies, are presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed RTBMPC.