Explicit stochastic predictive control of combustion plants based on Gaussian process models

Automatica

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1621-1631

  Grancharova, Alexandra ^a   Kocijan, Juš ^b,c   Johansen, Tor A ^d  

^a BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Bulgaria)

^b JO EF STEFAN INSTITUTE   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOVA GORICA   (Slovenia)

^d NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Model predictive control; Multi parametric nonlinear programming; Power plants; Probabilistic models; Stochastic systems

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTION; ELECTRIC POWER PLANTS; FLUE GASES; MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

MULTI-PARAMETRIC NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; NONLINEAR MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL (NMPC); PROBABILISTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

PRODUCTION CONTROL;

EID: 44549084178     PISSN: 00051098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.automatica.2008.04.002     Document Type: Article

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