Global predictive stabilization of input-saturated linear systems

A predictive regulator is described for stabilizing linear plants subject to input-saturation constraints. While asymptotic stability of general linear plants is ensured subject to a set-membership condition on the initial state, global exponential regulation is achieved in the presence of input saturations for plants which are asymptotically null controllable with bounded inputs. The design knobs of the regulator can be chosen off-line so as to trade off between nonconservative regulation performance vs. computational complexity