“…This paper was recommended for publication in revised form by Associate Editor Tongwen Chen under the direction of Editor Ian R. Petersen. This work was supported in part by the Program of Promotion of Environmental Improvement to Enhance Young Researchers' Independence under the Special Coordination Funds for Promoting Science and Technology, Japan Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. periodic systems with time-dependent dimensions in Chu, Fan, Lin, and Wang (2004) and Varga (2007Varga ( , 2008. Invariant sets (Blanchini, 1999) are indispensable in constrained MPC (Mayne et al, 2000), as they yield tools to engineer the closed-loop behavior of MPC control laws with a finite prediction horizon.…”