Distributed model predictive control: A tutorial review and future research directions

Computers and Chemical Engineering

Volumn 51, Issue , 2013, Pages 21-41

  Christofides, Panagiotis D ^a   Scattolini, Riccardo ^b   Muñoz de la Peña, David ^c   Liu, Jinfeng ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL; FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS; REVIEW PAPERS;

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER APPLICATIONS;

RESEARCH;

EID: 84874018044     PISSN: 00981354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compchemeng.2012.05.011     Document Type: Article

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