Delft University of Technology Delft Center for Systems and Control Technical report 16-012 Optimistic optimization for model predictive control of max-plus linear systems ∗ J. Xu, T. van den Boom, and B. De Schutter If you want to cite this report, please use the following reference instead: J. Xu, T. van den Boom, and B. De Schutter, “Optimistic optimization for model predictive control of max-plus linear systems,” Automatica, vol. 74, pp. 16–22, Dec. 2016. Delft Center for Systems and Control Delft University of Technology Mekelweg 2, 2628 CD Delft The Netherlands phone: +31-15-278.51.19 (secretary) fax: +31-15-278.66.79 URL: http://www.dcsc.tudelft.nl ∗ This report can also be downloaded via http://pub.deschutter.info/abs/16_012.html