Game theory-based distributed predictive control: Application to shell oil fractionator

In this paper we propose to study the underlying properties of our formerly proposed distributed multi-rate predictive control strategy based on Nash game [1]. In this proposed method a set of multi-rate constrained agents communicate to accomplish their goals. The problems of how to decide the multirate communication strategy, share the inputs, estimated states and observers gains are solved using tools from game theory. The proposed scheme is demonstrated through a simulation example. Eventually different multi-rate scenarios have been simulated to present the performance of the method under all possible scenarios and also comparison of these scenarios together.