@incollection{eprints426, publisher = {IEEE}, journal = {Symposium on Circuits and Systems}, author = {Alberto Bemporad and W.P.M.H. Heemels and Mircea Lazar}, address = {30th May- 2nd June , 2010}, booktitle = {Symposium on Circuits and Systems}, title = {On the synthesis of piecewise affine control laws}, year = {2010}, abstract = {Piecewise affine (PWA) control laws offer an attractive solution to real-time control of linear, nonlinear and hybrid systems. In this paper we provide a compact exposition of the existing state-of-the-art methods for the synthesis of PWA control laws using optimization-based methods.}, url = {http://eprints.imtlucca.it/426/}, keywords = {hybrid system; linear system; nonlinear system; optimization based method; piecewise affine control law; real time control; control system synthesis; optimisation; predictive control} }