The series Advances in Industrial Control aims to report and encourage
technology transfer in control engineering. The rapid development of
control technology has an impact on all areas of the control discipline.
New theory, new controllers, actuators, sensors, new industrial
processes, computer methods, new applications, new philosophies ..., new
challenges. Much of this development work resides in industrial reports,
feasibility study papers and the reports of advanced collaborative
projects. The series offers an opportunity for researchers to present an
extended exposition of such new work in all aspects of industrial
control for wider and rapid dissemination. The Advances in Industrial
Control series promotes control techniques, which are used by industry.
The series has useful volumes in various aspects of
proportional-integral-derivative (PID) control because of the widespread
use of PID in applications. Predictive control is another technique that
quickly became essential in some sectors of the petro-chemical, and
process control industries. It was the ability of the method to
incorporate operational constraints that lead to this take-up by
industry. The wider industrial applications of predictive control has
been slower to develop; indeed some practitioners might argue that this
technology transfer step is still active or had only just begun in some
industrial sectors.
