%0 Book Section %A Muñoz de la Peña, David %A Alamo, Teodoro %A Bemporad, Alberto %A Camacho, Eduardo F. %B Decision and Control Conference %C 14th-17th December 2004 %D 2004 %F eprints:564 %I IEEE %K dynamic programming approach; explicit solution; linear MPC controllers; linear systems; model predictive control; multi-parametric methods; multiparametric programming; discrete time systems; dynamic programming; linear systems; predictive control %P 2479-2484 %T A dynamic programming approach for determining the explicit solution of MPC controllers %U http://eprints.imtlucca.it/564/ %V 3 %X Recently multi-parametric methods have been applied with success to model predictive control (MPC) schemes. In this paper we propose a novel method for linear systems to obtain the explicit description of the control law that is based on dynamic programming and exploits the structure of the MPC formulation.