@incollection{eprints742,
            year = {2011},
       booktitle = {Proceedings of the 18th IFAC World Congress, 2011},
          volume = {18},
          author = {Tomaso Poggi and Sergio Trimboli and Alberto Bemporad and Marco Storace},
           title = {Explicit hybrid model predictive control: discontinuous piecewise-affine approximation and FPGA implementation},
       publisher = {IFAC},
           pages = {1350--1355},
        keywords = {Digital implementation; Control design for hybrid systems; Control of switched systems},
             url = {http://eprints.imtlucca.it/742/},
        abstract = {In this paper we introduce a digital architecture implementing the explicit solution of a switched model predictive control problem. Given a mixed-logic dynamical system, we derive an explicit controller in the form of a possibly discontinuous piecewise-affine function. This function is then approximated by resorting to piecewise-affine simplicial functions, which can be implemented on a circuit by extending the representation capabilities of a previously proposed architecture to evaluate the control action. The architecture has been implemented on FPGA and validated on a benchmark example related to an air conditioning system.}
}