Implications of discretization on dissipativity and economic model predictive control
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© 2016 Elsevier LtdEconomic model predictive control, where a generic cost is employed as the objective function to be minimized, has recently gained much attention in model predictive control literature. Stability proof of the resulting closed-loop system is often based on strict dissipativity of the system with respect to the objective function. In this paper, starting with a continuous-time setup, we consider the ‘discretize then optimize’ approach to solving continuous-time optimal control problems and investigate the effect of the discretization process on the closed-loop system. We show that while the continuous-time system may be strictly dissipative with respect to the objective function, it is possible that the resulting closed-loop system is unstable if the discrete-approximation of the continuous-time optimal control problem is not properly set up. We use a popular example from the economic MPC literature to illustrate our results.
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1873-2771