ON THE LINK BETWEEN GENERALIZED PREDICTIVE CONTROL AND DEADBEAT CONTROL FOR LINEAR-MULTIVARIABLE SYSTEMS

This paper studies a special case of multivariable generalized predictive control (GPC) in which a deadbeat controller is obtained. It is shown that the multivarible GPC design can be made to be equivalent to the deadbeat control design by certain choices of the design parameters. The proposed procedure needs the introduction of different control horizons for different inputs. A tuning strategy is used to achieve deadbeat control for real-time implementation.