TY - JOUR N2 - The model predictive control (MPC) technique has been widely applied in a large number of industrial plants. Optimal input design should guarantee acceptable model parameter estimates while still providing for low experimental effort. The goal of this work is to investigate an application-oriented identification experiment that satisfies the performance objectives of the implementation of the model. A- and D-optimal input signal design methods for a non-linear liquid two-tank model are presented in this paper. The excitation signal is obtained using a finite impulse response filter (FIR) with respect to the accepted application degradation and the input power constraint. The MPC controller is then used to control the liquid levels of the double tank system subject to the reference trajectory. The MPC scheme is built based on the linearized and discretized model of the system to predict the system’s succeeding outputs with reference to the future input signal. The novelty of this model-based method consists in including the experiment cost in input design through the objective function. The proposed framework is illustrated by means of numerical examples, and simulation results are discussed. L1 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/117271/PDF/24_883-891_01514_Bpast.No.68-4_27.08.20.pdf L2 - http://journals.pan.pl/Content/117271 PY - 2020 IS - No. 4 (i.a. Special Section on Advances in Electrical Power Engineering) EP - 891 DO - 10.24425/bpasts.2020.134189 KW - model predictive control KW - optimal input design KW - convex optimization KW - application-oriented identification A1 - Jakowluk, W. A1 - Świercz, M. VL - 68 DA - 31.08.2020 T1 - Application-oriented experiment design for model predictive control SP - 883 UR - http://journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/117271 T2 - Bulletin of the Polish Academy of Sciences Technical Sciences ER -