Since Model Predictive Heuristic Control (MPHC), the earliest algorithm of Model Predictive Control (MPC), was proposed by French engineer Richalet and his colleagues in 1978, the explicit background of industrial application has made MPC develop rapidly to satisfy the increasing request from modern industry. Different from many other control algorithms, the research history of MPC is originated from application and then expanded to theoretical field, while ordinary control algorithms often has applications after sufficient theoretical research
