Sensitivity analysis for selective constraint and variability tuning in performance assessment of industrial MPC

This paper is concerned with economic performance assessment of industrial model predictive control (MPC) applications for processes with constraints. The interest of this paper is to find sensitive process variables, which are the most contributive to the economic performance of MPC. Optimization algorithms for sensitivity analysis are presented for both constraint and variability tuning of industrial MPC applications. Several new problems related to sensitivity properties of process variables, which arise in the actual MPC economic performance assessment, are addressed. Industrial case studies are included to demonstrate how the proposed sensitivity analysis can be used to provide practical and selective tuning guidelines in industry.

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