Model Predictive Control: A New Paradigm for Automatic Control 2002 Presidential Address

This suggestion is avoided if one thinks of the lines as vectors of signals, and of the blocks as matrix-valued operators. But these are sophisticated interpretations for control experts.

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The prediction within MPC provides phase advance, which makes this possible. Such phase advance is also obtained — though in a more complicated way — in a Smith predictor..

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