Abstract
This paper reviews the application of adaptive control in three areas: aircraft control systems, process control and electrical drives. In the aeronautical field, where pioneering work on adaptive control was carried out, relatively few applications have been achieved on account of competition of rival techniques such as air data scheduling and also due to deficiencies in basic adaptive control theory. From the field of applications in the cement industry, the steel and metallurgical industry, the chemical industry, the paper industry, power plants, and some miscellaneous areas of process industry, the most interesting developments in adaptive control during the last five years are discussed, although only relatively few applications have been reported. It is pointed out that the reason for this situation is due to the complicated dynamic behaviour of these industrial processes as well as the (healthy) conservative management of many industrial processes. The field of electrical drives seems to be one of the most promising areas for the application of adaptive control. The dynamics of such systems are well understood and limitations of theory are less restrictive.
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