Abstract

Abstract In recent years, theoretical results for model predictive control (MPC) have been expanded to address discrete actuators (decisions) and high-level planning and scheduling problems. The application of MPC-style methods to scheduling problems has been driven, in part, by the robustness afforded by feedback. The ability of MPC, and feedback methods in general, to reject small persistent disturbances is well-recognized. In many planning and scheduling applications, however, we must also consider an additional class of discrete and infrequent disturbances, such as breakdowns and unplanned maintenance. In this paper, we establish that nominal MPC is robust, in a stochastic context, to this class of discrete and infrequent disturbances. We illustrate these results with a nonlinear blending example.

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