Authors and Contributors

The first version of MPT was originally created in fall 2003 by Michal Kvasnica, Pascal Grieder, and Mato Baotic, based on Pascal's ifa_mpqp package and Mato's polytope library. Since then, numerous people devoted their time and effort to include functionality, improve existing code, or to report bugs. Because we value every contribution, the following list of contributors is sorted alphabetically:

Baotic, Mato	MPT lead developer; focus on polytope library, optimal control of PWA systems
Baric, Miroslav	mpLP solvers, optimal control of PWA systems
Biswas, Pratik	piecewise polynomial Lyapunov functions
Cagienard, Raphael	move blocking strategies
Christophersen, Frank J.	documentation template, graphical routines, optimal control of PWA systems
Ferrari-Trecate, Gianni	Hybrid Identification Toolbox
Fukuda, Komei	computational geometry package CDD
Geyer, Tobias	region merging, on-line MPC for hybrid systems, hybrid-to-PWA conversion
Grieder, Pascal	MPT lead developer; focus on stability analysis, sub-optimal control
Jones, Colin N.	polytope projection package ESP
Kurzhanskiy, Alex	Ellipsoidal Toolbox
Kvasnica, Michal	MPT lead developer; focus on framework, structure, interface, performance
Linder, Arne	search trees, extensive testing
Leutenegger, Marcel	status bar script
Löfberg, Johan	optimization package YALMIP
Suard, Raphael	efficient removal of redundant constraints in polytopes, projection algorithms
Torrisi, Fabio D.	hybrid systems modeling language HYSDEL
Vasak, Mario	improvements of convex hulls computation

We would also like to acknowledge the late Jos Sturm (SeDuMi) for providing an efficient SDP solver under the General Public Licence (GPL).

Acknowledgment

Our special thanks goes to Arne Linder and Johan Löfberg for their endeavoring effort in providing very useful suggestions and testing the toolbox.

Boris Tetrev is gratefully acknowledged for providing the MPT logo.

We are also grateful to the following people for helpful discussions and input:

Sasa V. Rakovic, Adam Lagerberg, Alberto Bemporad, Francesco Borrelli, Eric C. Kerrigan, Nicolo Giorgetti, Kari Unneland, Andrea G. Beccuti, Arno van der Heijden, Hao Xia, Jian Wan, J.S. Wang, Marcin Cychowski, Peter Ortner, Tina Paschedag, Urban Maeder, Leonidas Dristas, Zhi Han, Wei Zhuo, Alessandro Magnani, Alessandro Pinto, Antoine Rennuit, Leo Grady, Viviana Miranda Ureta, Blazej Cichy.

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