Distributed Model Predictive Control of Discrete Time Interconnected Systems with Time Delays

This paper investigates a distributed model predictive control strategy for discrete-time interconnected linear systems. The MPC controllers of subsystems communicate their information to handle the interconnection effects. It is known that distributed MPC relies on communication networks to transmit and share information among subsystems. Communication delays, resulting in delayed information exchange among subsystems, may inhibit the use of any distributed MPC approach. To address this problem, a delay handling mechanism is employed. Besides, it is showed that the proposed method guarantees input-to-state stability characterization for both local subsystems and the global system under some predetermined assumptions. The simulation results are exploited to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.