On the robustness of nominal nonlinear minimum-time control and extension to non-robustly controllable target sets

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 863-875

  Pin, Gilberto ^a   Parisini, Thomas ^b,c  

^a Electrolux Core Technology and Innovation   (Sweden)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Minimum time control; nonlinear model predictive control; optimal control

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

BOUNDED UNCERTAINTY; CONTINUOUS TRANSITIONS; MINIMUM TIME; NONLINEAR DISCRETE-TIME; NONLINEAR MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL; ONLINE OPTIMIZATION; OPTIMAL CONTROLS; ULTIMATE BOUNDEDNESS;

PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 84897407166     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.2013.2293217     Document Type: Article

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