Pre-requisite: 70520
Co-requisite: 70620
This unit introduces adaptive control and communications and signal processing approaches and relates them to industrial applications. Many industrial engineering systems are non linear and also vary with time. The application of linear systems approaches (which also assume that the system does not vary with time) to these problems is inappropriate and prove to not be very robust under the usual conditions in service. The use of computers for communication and control of these systems allows the implementation of sophisticated algorithms. Real time system identification to detect the changes in the system together with an automated adaptive controller to incorporate these changes in a communication or control strategy forms the basis of this subject. Equally important for the proper implementation of adaptive control and communication systems is the use of appropriate signals from transducers. Often the transducer information desired is not available in a form suitable to be implemented. Under these circumstances the use of soft sensing techniques and adaptive signal processing technologies are necessary.