TY  - JOUR
VL  - 43
Y1  - 1998/03//
JF  - IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
IS  - 3
A1  - Bemporad, Alberto
PB  - IEEE 
SP  - 415
ID  - eprints466
EP  - 419
TI  - Reference governor for constrained nonlinear systems
AV  - none
KW  - asymptotic stability; continuous time systems; control system analysis; nonlinear control systems; optimisation;  predictive control
    tracking

UR  - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=661611&isnumber=14476
SN  - 0018-9286
N2  - This paper addresses the problem of satisfying pointwise-in-time input and/or state hard constraints in nonlinear control systems. The approach is based on conceptual tools of predictive control and consists of adding to a primal compensated nonlinear system a reference governor. This is a discrete-time device which online handles the reference to be tracked, taking into account the current value of the state in order to satisfy the prescribed constraints. The resulting hybrid system is proved to fulfil the constraints as well as stability and tracking requirements
ER  -