Control often follows predictions: predictive control has been highly successful in producing robust and practical solutions in many real-life, real-time applications. Adaptive prediction covers a variety of ways of adding 'intelligence' to predictive control techniques. Many different groups, with widely varying disciplinary backgrounds and approaches, are tackling the same problem from different angles; these groups are sometimes unaware of alternative approaches from other disciplines.

This book attempts to give a unified and comprehensive coverage of the principles and methods that these groups have developed. It avoids basing its descriptions on very complex mathematical formulations but still gives a rigorous exposure to the subject, and illustrates the theory with many practical examples. It is chiefly aimed at students, researchers and practitioners, but will also be accessible to the non-specialist.

About the Author
Partha Pratim Kanjilal is an Associate Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He is a graduate of the IIT and of the University of Sheffield. His research interests include modelling and prediction of complex processes, linear and nonlinear time-series analysis, signal processing and predictive control. He has a particular interest in the applications of orthogonal control. Dr Kanjilal has previously worked as a research fellow at Oxford University, CSIR and Tata Steel in India. He has published over 25 refereed papers in journals and international conferences.

Reviews

'The book contains useful new material that can support postgraduate courses in the fields of control and signal processing. It can serve researchers and practicing engineers as a useful reference. On the whole, the book is an important contribution to the literature on the subject.'

* IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control *



Book Information
ISBN 9780863411939
Author Partha Pratim Kanjilal
Format Hardback
Page Count 536
Imprint Institution of Engineering and Technology
Publisher Institution of Engineering and Technology