relation: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/485/ title: Combined design of disturbance model and observer for offset-free model predictive control creator: Pannocchia, Gabriele creator: Bemporad, Alberto subject: QA Mathematics subject: TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) description: This note presents a method for the combined design of an integrating disturbance model and of the observer (for the augmented system) to be used in offset-free model predictive controllers. A dynamic observer is designed for the original (nonaugmented) system by solving an Hprop control problem aimed at minimizing the effect of unmeasured disturbances and plant/model mismatch on the output prediction error. It is shown that, when offset-free control is sought, the dynamic observer is equivalent to choosing an integrating disturbance model and an observer for the augmented system. An example of a chemical reactor shows the main features and benefits of the proposed method. publisher: IEEE date: 2007-06 type: Article type: PeerReviewed identifier: Pannocchia, Gabriele and Bemporad, Alberto Combined design of disturbance model and observer for offset-free model predictive control. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 52 (6). pp. 1048-1053. ISSN 0018-9286 (2007) relation: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=4237315 relation: 10.1109/TAC.2007.899096