Predictive control and estimation for systems with information structured constraints

This paper deals with a predictive control and estimation problem with information structured constraints in a constrained finite-time optimal control framework. A large-scale system with information structures is defined as a system in which each subsystem collects spatio-temporally different information, and in general it is necessary to collect and process information in a distributed fashion. We propose a novel predictive control scheme and an estimation law with local information that each distributed subsystem obtains. The effectiveness of the proposed control and estimation law is evaluated through numerical simulations of a simplified micro grid.