Fast Real-Time Model Predictive Control for a Ball-on-Plate Process

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Krzysztof Zarzycki1, Maciej Ławryńczuk1

  • 1Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology, Institute of Control and Computation Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology, ul. Nowowiejska 15/19, 00-665 Warsaw, Poland.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
|July 2, 2021
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LQR controllerPID controllerball-on-plate processmodel predictive controlmodeling

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