Publisher's Synopsis
This updated edition of a work on applied digital control incorporates new chapters on system robustness and realistic adaptive control. The book also discusses the practicalities of achieving adaptive control in an industrial situation.;Among the topics covered are examples of commercially available systems for adaptive system implementation, personal computers and VME-based systems and case histories spanning a number of approaches (large DCs or customized microprocessor, for example) over a range of industries (photographic film making, chemical processing, paper making, woodworking and metallurgical processing).