%L eprints1841 %I IEEE %X Model Predictive Controllers (MPC) designed for sampled-data systems can be shown to violate the constraints in continuous time. A reformulation of the initial problem will guarantee constraint satisfaction throughout the intersample period. Polytopic inclusions of the continuous trajectory are used in this paper to establish additional constraints leading to a linearly constrained quadratic optimization problem. Continuous time asymptotic stability and continuous-time positive invariance are proven for the reformulated problem. %K Continuous invariance; model predictive control; polytopic overapproximation; sampled data %D 2014 %A Pantelis Sopasakis %A Panagiotis Patrinos %A Haralambos Sarimveis %V 59 %N 4 %T MPC for Sampled-Data Linear Systems: guaranteeing continuous-time positive invariance %R 10.1109/TAC.2013.2285786 %J IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control %P 1088-1093