Nonlinear MPC for Offset-Free Tracking of systems learned by GRU Neural Networks

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2103.02383v1
• Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2021 13:14:33 GMT
• Title: Nonlinear MPC for Offset-Free Tracking of systems learned by GRU Neural Networks
• Authors: Fabio Bonassi, Caio Fabio Oliveira da Silva, Riccardo Scattolini
• Abstract summary: This paper describes how stable Gated Recurrent Units (GRUs) can be trained and employed in a MPC framework to perform offset-free tracking of constant references with guaranteed closed-loop stability. The proposed approach is tested on a pH neutralization process benchmark, showing remarkable performances.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: The use of Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) for system identification has recently gathered increasing attention, thanks to their black-box modeling capabilities.Albeit RNNs have been fruitfully adopted in many applications, only few works are devoted to provide rigorous theoretical foundations that justify their use for control purposes. The aim of this paper is to describe how stable Gated Recurrent Units (GRUs), a particular RNN architecture, can be trained and employed in a Nonlinear MPC framework to perform offset-free tracking of constant references with guaranteed closed-loop stability. The proposed approach is tested on a pH neutralization process benchmark, showing remarkable performances.

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