Coordination scheme and target tracking for distributed model predictive control

• A coordination scheme with an agent-based system for distributed control.
• Efficient distributed target tracking calculations with coordination scheme.
• The functionality of the coordinator illustrated by simulation studies.
• Distributed control facilitates the achievement of the global objective.

Distributed control provides communication between local controllers, which facilitates the achievement of the global objective for the overall control problem. A coordinator is proposed to implement the communication of local controllers. The presence of the coordinator in the control system provides benefits in the setup of the distributed controllers, and also the calculation of target tracking without the requirement for a feasible starting point. The functionality of the coordinator is illustrated in a case study of the Tennessee Eastman challenge problem.