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The technical note presents the design of a reference governor that manages directly the state and input references for constrained output regulation problems. In particular, for the class of so-called weakly input redundant linear systems, the proposed method leads to a taxonomy in terms of non-intrusive and intrusive reference governors, on the basis of the effect of reference manipulation on the tracking error. Non-intrusive references constitute a degree of freedom that one can freely select to meet constraint requirements; intrusive references are also assignable during transient, but shall be forced to vanish in steady state in order to achieve exact regulation. A simulation study illustrates the features of the proposed approach in support of the theoretical findings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this technical note, a new model predictive controller for tracking arbitrary periodic references is presented. The proposed controller is based on a single layer that unites dynamic trajectory planning and control. A design procedure to guarantee that the closed loop system converges asymptotically to the optimal admissible periodic trajectory while guaranteeing constraint satisfaction is provided. In addition, the constraints of the optimization problem solved by the controller do not depend on the reference, allowing for sudden changes in the reference without loosing feasibility. The properties of the proposed controller are demonstrated with a simulation example of a ball and plate system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]