Optimal Control of Continuous Petri Nets Via Model Predictive Control
Alessandro Giua, Cristian Mahulea, Laura Recalde, Carla Seatzu, Manuel Silva · 2006
This paper addresses the optimal control problem of continuous Petri nets under infinite servers semantics. Our goal is to find a control input optimizing a certain cost function that permits the evolution from an initial marking to a desired configuration. The problem is studied through model predictive control (MPC), a control method, extensively used in industrial applications. Implicit and explicit procedures are presented together with a comparison between the two schemes