Application of constraints in predictive control of time-delay systems

In industry, there are cases where the controlled process includes time-delay and it is often necessary to limit its input, output or state variables. The aim of this paper is to design and verify a predictive controller that is able to control these processes. This paper generally describes the design process of the predictive controller-from the general characteristics of predictive control to the calculation method of the control law. The next section includes a simulation verification of this design for different process parameters. All simulation verification programs are implemented in MATLAB/Simulink. © ECMS Valeri M. Mladenov, Petia Georgieva, Grisha Spasov, Galidiya Petrova (Editors)