Model predictive control (MPC) is indisputably one of the advanced control techniques that have significantly affected control engineering practice with thousands of controllers implemented in various fields, spanning from the process industry to automotive and robotics. This is due to its unique ability to handle constraints, take preview information about disturbances and setpoint changes into account, and optimize performance. Furthermore, MPC allows the consideration of various types of dynamics, from linear to nonlinear, discrete to continuous, as well as an online adaptation of models and parameters. The research community on MPC is very active, with hundreds of papers published every year. Over the past decades, many theoretical, as well as implementation results, have been achieved.
The IFAC Conference on Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (NMPC 2024) aims to bring together researchers interested in and work in the MPC field from both academia and industry. This allows us to reflect and establish the current state-of-the-art and focus on the future development of the MPC field towards relevant directions.
NMPC2024 covers a wide range of research directions in control theory and applications. The topics of interest include the following, but are not limited to:
NMPC 2024 follows the tradition of conferences held in Ascona, Switzerland (1998); Freudenstadt-Lauterbad, Germany (2005); Pavia, Italy (2008); Noordwijkerhout, the Netherlands (2012); Seville, Spain (2015); Madison, USA (2018); and Bratislava, Slovakia (2021).