TY - JOUR N2 - This paper investigates the use of canonical piecewise affine (PWA) functions for approximation and fast implementation of linear MPC controllers. The control law is approximated in an optimal way over a regular simplicial partition of a given set of states of interest. The stability properties of the resulting closed-loop system are analyzed by constructing a suitable PWA Lyapunov function. The main advantage of the proposed approach to the implementation of MPC controllers is that the resulting stabilizing approximate MPC controller can be implemented on chip with sampling times in the order of tens of nanoseconds. JF - IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control Y1 - 2011/12// SN - 0018-9286 KW - Aerospace electronics; Function approximation; Optimal control; Silicon; Softening; Vectors IS - 12 UR - http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5746505&isnumber=4601496 TI - Ultra-fast stabilizing model predictive control via canonical piecewise affine approximations ID - eprints730 AV - none A1 - Bemporad, Alberto A1 - Oliveri, Alberto A1 - Poggi, Tomaso A1 - Storace, Marco SP - 2883 EP - 2897 VL - 56 PB - IEEE ER -