Priority switching approach for multi-objective MPC for brandy distillation systems

Abstract

This paper proposes a new Model Predictive Control approach that is based on multi-objective optimization with prioritization and switching between multiple models obtained at different operating phases. At each sampling step, several conflicting objectives are to be optimized under an order of priority that may be changed from one phase of the process working cycle to another. The proposed Switched Multi-Objective Prioritizing MPC (S-MOP-MPC) is then applied to a brandy distillation process.