This book is a simple and didactic account of the developments and practical applications of
predictive adaptive predictive and optimized adaptive control from a perspective of stability
including the latest methodology of adaptive predictive expert (ADEX) control.ADEX Optimized
Adaptive Control Systems is divided into six parts with exercises and real-time simulations
provided for the reader as appropriate. The text begins with the conceptual and intuitive
knowledge of the technology and derives the stability conditions to be verified by the driver
block and the adaptive mechanism of the optimized adaptive controller to guaranty the desired
control performance. The second and third parts present strategic considerations of predictive
control and related adaptive systems necessary for the proper design of driver block and
adaptive mechanism and thence their technical realization. The authors then proceed to detail
the stability theory that supports predictive adaptive predictive and optimized adaptive
control methodologies. Benchmark applications of these methodologies (distillation column and
pulp-factory bleaching plant) are treated next with a focus on practical implementation issues.
The final part of the book describes ADEX platforms and illustrates their use in the design and
implementation of optimized adaptive control systems to three different challenging-to-control
industrial processes:waste-water treatment sulfur recovery andtemperature control of
superheated steam in coal-fired power generation.The presentation is completed by a number of
appendices containing technical background associated with the main text including a manual for
the ADEX COP platform developed by the first author to exploit the capabilities of adaptive
predictive control in real plants.ADEX Optimized Adaptive Control Systems provides practicing
process control engineers with a multivariable optimal control solution which is adaptive and
resistant to perturbation and the effects of noise. Its pedagogical features also facilitate
its use as a teaching tool for formal university and Internet-based open-education-type
graduate courses in practical optimal adaptive control and for self-study.
