%0 Book Section
%A Bemporad, Alberto
%A Heemels, W.P.M.H.
%A Lazar, Mircea
%B Symposium on Circuits and Systems
%C 30th May- 2nd June , 2010
%D 2010
%F eprints:426
%I IEEE
%K hybrid system; linear system; nonlinear system; optimization based method; piecewise affine control law; real time control; control system synthesis; optimisation; predictive control
%T On the synthesis of piecewise affine control laws
%U http://eprints.imtlucca.it/426/
%X 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.