Grid k-d tree approach for point location in polyhedral data sets – application to explicit MPC

Abstract

Explicit model predictive control (EMPC) moves the online computational burden of linear model predictive control (MPC) to offline computation by using multi-parametric programming which produces control laws defined over a set of polyhedral regions in the state space. The online computation of EMPC is to find the corresponding control law according to a given state, this is called the point location problem. This paper deals with efficient point location in larger polyhedral data sets. The authors propose a hybrid data structure, grid k-d tree (GKDT), which is constructed by the k-dimensional tree (k-d tree), hash table and binary search tree (BST). The main part of GKDT is a multiple branch tree which constructs subtrees by splitting the polyhedral region into several equal grids based on the k-d tree and is traversed by the hash function on each level. GKDT has a high search efficiency, even though it needs much more storage memory. A complexity analysis of the approach in the runtime and storage requirements is provided. Advantages of the method are supported by two examples in the paper.