Input-to-state stability of hybrid systems with receding horizon control in the presence of unreliable network packet dropouts

This article studies the stability of a constrained piecewise continuous nonlinear and hybrid system that is controlled by a receding horizon controller across an unreliable communication network. We assume the presence of a buffer in the plant that stores the predicted control inputs received from the controller to compensate for any possible packet dropouts in future transmissions. We use tightened state constraints in receding horizon control to counteract the disturbances due to the piecewise continuous nature of the system and imperfect transmission. Input-to-state stability is considered under the assumption that the number of consecutive packet dropouts is bounded.