Nonlinear Model Predictive Control Using Output Feedback

This paper presents an output feedback model predictive control for a class of nonlinear systems in a multirate scheme, where the control sampling period is larger than the estimation sampling period. With a small sampling period, the observer is designed to be faster than the dynamics of the closed-loop system under state feedback. Stabilization is achieved by a separation approach in which the control is designed first using state feedback and practical stabilization is achieved by output feedback.