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Abstract
While control theory can be pivotal in addressing societal challenges and helping policymakers in shaping our future, control schemes must incorporate elements of social justice to be both up to the task and fair. In turn, this requires the formulation of new constraints and control objectives and their integration into existing or new control design strategies. Devising a formally sound framework to ensure social fairness in control can enable a leap in understanding the implications of justice when closing the loop. In this challenging context, we propose and analyze the properties of Fair model predictive control, an economic model predictive control scheme promoting fairness by integrating into the design strategy social fairness metrics, articulated in equality and equity. This allows optimizing input sequences that balance fairness and efficiency, which are often in conflict.
期刊介绍:
In the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, the IEEE Control Systems Society publishes high-quality papers on the theory, design, and applications of control engineering. Two types of contributions are regularly considered:
1) Papers: Presentation of significant research, development, or application of control concepts.
2) Technical Notes and Correspondence: Brief technical notes, comments on published areas or established control topics, corrections to papers and notes published in the Transactions.
In addition, special papers (tutorials, surveys, and perspectives on the theory and applications of control systems topics) are solicited.