FPGA implementation of an interior-point solution for linear model predictive control

IFAC Proceedings Volumes (IFAC-PapersOnline)

Volumn 44, Issue 1 PART 1, 2011, Pages 14527-14532

  Wills, Adrian ^a   Mills, Adam ^a   Ninness, Brett ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Field programmable gate array (FPGA); Interior point; Model predictive control

Indexed keywords

DISTURBANCE REJECTION; FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS (FPGA); LOGIC GATES; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS;

CONTROL ACTIONS; DISTURBANCE REJECTION PROBLEM; FPGA IMPLEMENTATIONS; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING; INTERIOR POINT; LINEAR MODELING; RESONANT SYSTEMS; SAMPLING RATES;

MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL;

EID: 84866761352     PISSN: 14746670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.3182/20110828-6-IT-1002.02857     Document Type: Conference Paper

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