%D 2017 %R doi:10.1109/TAC.2016.2601881 %J IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control %L eprints4006 %N 6 %A Mario Zanon %A Lars Grune %A Moritz Diehl %V 62 %P 2943-2949 %T Periodic Optimal Control, Dissipativity and MPC %X Recent research has established the importance of (strict) dissipativity for proving stability of economic MPC in the case of an optimal steady state. In many cases, though, steady-state operation is not economically optimal and periodic operation of the system yields a better performance. In this technical note, we propose ways of extending the notion of (strict) dissipativity for periodic systems. We prove that optimal P-periodic operation and MPC stability directly follow, similarly to the steady-state case, which can be seen as a special case of the proposed framework. Finally, we illustrate the theoretical results with several simple examples. %I IEEE