4. Conclusion

Thanks to powerful and now inexpensive computational units, predictive control is a powerful and efficient solution for controlling converter-machine combinations, including complex converter structures with many permissible configurations. Recent improvements, such as the use of filtered quantities in cost functions, offer promising prospects for this type of control.

When several objectives have to be met, the use of cost functions associating several weighted variables enables intuitive control settings. However, how can weighting coefficients be determined from specifications and a system model, other than by means of successive simulations? Current research will undoubtedly provide a rapid answer to this question. Another interesting research prospect consists in determining several configurations during each calculation cycle, in order to apply these configurations,...