(209g) Optimal Control Unchained. How Fast Online Computing Enabled Today's Advanced Industrial Control Systems
AIChE Annual Meeting
2009
2009 Annual Meeting
Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Division
In Honor of Harmon Ray's 70th Birthday I
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 - 10:05am to 10:25am
This talk presents a brief history of the development of
model predictive control (MPC), the leading industrial advanced
control method in use in the process industries. The development of
the theoretical underpinnings of MPC is traced from its origins in
optimal control theory. Both optimal regulation and optimal state
estimation are discussed as problems in online optimization subject to
differential equation models and constraints. Several current open
problems in both the theory and industrial application of MPC are
briefly presented.