Techniques for Adaptive Control

Adaptive Tuning Methods of the Foxboro I/A System; Controller Structure; Minimum Variance Control; Control by Minimizing Sensitivity to Process Uncertainty; Algebraic Controller Design for Load Rejection and Shaped Transient Response; Algebraic Tuning of a Controller with Deadtime; Robust Adaptation of Feedback Controller Gain Scheduling; Feedforward Control; Adaptation of Feedforward Load Compensators; The Exploitation of Adaptive Modelling in the Model Predictive Control Environment of Connoisseur; Model Structures; Issues for Identification; Adaptive Modelling; Other Methods; Simulated case study on a Fluid Catalytic Cracking Unit; Adaptive Predictive Regulatory Control with BrainWave™; The Laguerre Modelling Method; Why the Laguerre Method is Used for Identification; Why Modelling Techniques, Trade-Offs; Formulas Used; Building the Adaptive Predictive Controller Based on a Laguerre State Space Model; The Concepts Behind MBPC; A Simple Predictive Control Law; The Indirect Adaptiver Predictive Control Solution; Feedforward Variables used in Modelling and Control; Why Simpler is Better; A Laguerre Based Controller for Integrating Systems; Identification and Disturbance Estimation for Integrating Systems; The Controller; Practical Issues for Implenting Adaptive Predictive Controllers; Integration with Existing Control System Equipment; Ensuring Successful Identification; Treating Self-Regulating as Integrating Systems; Choosing Appropriate Feedforward Variables; Determining when the Controller Setup is Correct and Complete; Simulation Examples; Model Identification in Closed Loop; Model Identification for Feedforward Variables in Closed Loop; Integrating and Self-Regulating System Control; Industrial Application Examples; Applications to Batch Reactors; Advanced Control of a Steam Header Pressure, Saveall Consistency and Reel Brightness in a TMP Newsprint Mill; Adaptive Predictive Control of a Glass Forehearth; Model-Free Adaptive Control; Model-Free Adaptive Control (MFA); MFA Control Methodology and Applications; Expert-Based Adaptive Control - ControlSoft's INTUNE Adaptive and Diagnostic Software; Identification-Based Adaptive Control; Expert-Based Adaptive Control, ControlSoft's INTUNE; Concluding Observations; KnowledgeScape, an Object-oriented Real-time Adaptive Modeling and Optimization Expert Control System for the Process Industries; Intelligent Software Objects and their use in KnowledgeScape; Artificial Intelligence and Process Control; Neural Networks; Genetic Algorithms; Crisp Rules; Fuzzy Rules; Putting it all together; Configuring an application in KnowledgeScape; Writing crisp and expert control rules; Creating adaptive, on-line neural models of the process; Creating genetic algorithm optimizers for the process; Results in the Minerals Processing Industry