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Adaptive controllers work smarter, not harder: commercially available adaptive controllers can adjust to process conditions they haven't experienced previously, and 'learn' how to make the process better.

Every process controller is 'adaptive' in the sense that it changes its output in response to a change in the error between the setpoint and the process variable. However, an 'adaptive controller' can adapt not only its output, but its underlying control strategy as well. It can tune its own parameters or otherwise modify its own control law so as to accommodate fundamental changes in the behaviour of the process.

Hundreds of techniques for adaptive control have been developed for a wide variety of academic, defence, and industrial applications. However, very few adaptive controllers available as commercial products are capable of updating their control strategies while ...

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