Predictive Control of Hybrid Systems: Stability results for sub-optimal solutions

Abstract This article presents a novel model predictive control (MPC) scheme that achieves input-to-state stabilization of constrained discontinuous nonlinear and hybrid systems. Input-to-state stability (ISS) is guaranteed when an optimal solution of the MPC optimization problem is attained. Special attention is paid to the effect that sub-optimal solutions have on ISS of the closed-loop system. This issue is of interest as firstly, the infimum of MPC optimization problems does not have to be attained and secondly, numerical solvers usually provide only sub-optimal solutions. An explicit relation is established between the deviation of the predictive control law from the optimum (called the optimality margin ) and the resulting deterioration of the ISS property of the closed-loop system (called the ISS margin ).

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