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Adaptive Control. An adaptive control strategy is one in which the controller characteristics, ie, the algorithm or the control parameters within it, are automatically adjusted for changes in the dynamic characteristics of the process itself (34). The incentives for an adaptive control strategy generally arise from two factors common in many process plants (/) the process and portions thereof are really nonlinear and (2) the process state, environment, and equipment s performance all vary over time. Because of these factors, the process gain and process time constants vary with process conditions, eg, flow rates and temperatures, and over time. Often such variations do not cause an unacceptable problem. In some instances, however, these variations do cause deterioration in control performance, and the controllers need to be retuned for the different conditions. 

It is customary to put both variables on the unit torus that is, q and p are taken to be periodic variables with period equal to one. The sole control parameter, Q, determines the extent of the nonlinearity. As a increases, there is a dramatic transition between regular smooth orbits and trajectories that are almost completely chaotic. 

Considering the similarity between Figs. 1 and 2, the electrode potential E and the anodic dissolution current J in Fig. 2 correspond to the control parameter ft and the physical variable x in Fig. 1, respectively. Then it can be said that the equilibrium solution of J changes the value from J - 0 to J > 0 at the critical pitting potential pit. Therefore the critical pitting potential corresponds to the bifurcation point. From these points of view, corrosion should be classified as one of the nonequilibrium and nonlinear phenomena in complex systems, similar to other phenomena such as chaos. 

The coefficients of this mode-coupling functional are the basic control parameters of this idealized version of MCT. One sees that Eqs. [46] and [47] amount to a set of nonlinear equations for the correlators S(q,t) that must be solved self-consistently. 

Adaptive controllers can be usefully applied because most processes are nonlinear (Section 7.16) and common controller design criteria (Section 7.12) are based on linear models. Due to process non-linearities, the controller parameters required to give the desired response of the controlled variable change as the process steady state alters. Furthermore, the characteristics of many processes vary with time, e.g. due to catalyst decay, fouling of heat exchangers, etc. This leads to a deterioration in the performance of controllers designed upon a linear basis. 

After the series of metabolic pathways had been elucidated for the three model compounds 1-3, these data were implemented into the mathematical model PharmBiosim. The nonlinear system s response to varying ketone exposure was studied. The predicted vanishing of oscillatory behavior for increasing ketone concentration can be used to experimentally test the model assumptions in the reduction of the xenobiotic ketone. To generate such predictions, we employed as a convenient tool the continuation of the nonlinear system s behavior in the control parameters. This strategy is applicable to large systems of coupled, nonlinear, ordinary differential equations and shall together with direct numerical simulations be used to further extend PharmBiosim than was sketched here. This model already allows more detailed predictions of stereoisomer distribution in the products. 

So, apart from the regular behavior, which is either steady-state, periodic, or quasi-periodic behavior (trajectory on a torus, Figure 3.2), some dynamic systems exhibit chaotic behavior, i.e., trajectories follow complicated aperiodic patterns that resemble randomness. Necessary but not sufficient conditions in order for chaotic behavior to take place in a system described by differential equations are that it must have dimension at least 3, and it must contain nonlinear terms. However, a system of three nonlinear differential equations need not exhibit chaotic behavior. This kind of behavior may not take place at all, and when it does, it usually occurs only for a specific range of the system s control parameters 9. 

A key factor in modeling is parameter estimation. One usually needs to fit the established model to experimental data in order to estimate the parameters of the model both for simulation and control. However, a task so common in a classical system is quite difficult in a chaotic one. The sensitivity of the system s behavior to the initial conditions and the control parameters makes it very hard to assess the parameters using tools such as least squares fitting. However, efforts have been made to deal with this problem [38]. For nonlinear data analysis, a combination of statistical and mathematical tests on the data to discern inner relationships among the data points (determinism vs. randomness), periodicity, quasiperiodicity, and chaos are used. These tests are in fact nonparametric indices. They do not reveal functional relationships, but rather directly calculate process features from time-series records. For example, the calculation of the dimensionality of a time series, which results from the phase space reconstruction procedure, as well as the Lyapunov exponent are such nonparametric indices. Some others are also commonly used ... 

A fundamental corollary of the Glansdorf Prigogine criterion (3.2) is a potentiality of the formation of ordered structures at the occurrence of irreversible processes in the region of nonlinear thermodynamics in open systems that are far from their equilibrium. Prigogine created the term dissipative structures to describe the structures that arise when some controlling parameters exceed certain critical values and are classified as spatial, temporal, or spatial temporal. Some typical dissipative structures are discussed in Sections 3.5 and 4.6. 

The stability and other thermodynamic properties of nonlinear kinetic systems far from thermodynamic equibbrium are commonly accepted to analyze by inspecting the system behavior as functions of some external controlling parameters. Chemical affinity of stepwise processes or those related to it values that characterize the remoteness from the equilibrium point of the system are often chosen as such a controlling parameter of general nature. 

Unlike linear regression where the user has little or no control over how the parameter estimates are obtained, the analyst has many variables to control in nonlinear regression. These are listed in Table 3.1. It must be recognized up-front that different combinations of these variables will lead to different parameter estimates—sometimes dramatically different. 

Excitable systems as considered here are many particle systems far from eqnilibrium. Hence variables as voltage drop (neurons), light intensity (lasers) or densities (chemical reactions) are always subject to noise and fluctations. Their sources might be of quite different origin, first the thermal motion of the molecules, the discreteness of chemical events and the quantum uncertainness create some unavoidable internal fluctuations. Bnt in excitable systems, more importantly, the crucial role is played by external sources of fluctuations which act always in nonequilibrium and are not counterbalanced by dissipative forces. Hence their intensity and correlation times and lengths can be considered as independent variables and, subsequently, as new control parameters of the nonlinear dynamics. 

Here u(f) is the inhibitor and a x, t) is the activator variable. In the semiconductor context u t) denotes the voltage drop across the device and a(x, t) is the electron density in the quantum well. The nonlinear, nonmonotonic function /(a, u) describes the balance of the incoming and outgoing current densities of the quantum well, and D(a) is an effective, electron density dependent transverse diffusion coefficient. The local current density in the device is j a, u) = (/(a, u) + 2a), and J = j jdx is associated with the global current. Eq. (5.22) represents Kirchhoff s law of the circuit (5.3) in which the device is operated. The external bias voltage Uq, the dimensionless load resistance r R, and the time-scale ratio e = RhC/ra (where C is the capacitance of the circuit and Ta is the tunneling time) act as control parameters. The one-dimensional spatial coordinate x corresponds to the direction transverse to the current flow. We consider a system of... 

Instead of controlling flow to the reboiler (in Fig. 17.1c), one could use the pressm-e at the reboiler as the control parameter. Controlling reboiler pressure is not recommended because the relationship between pressure and condensing temperature, and therefore between boilup and pressure, is nonlinear. Further, the relationship between boilup and pressure changes as the reboiler fouls and when the heat transfer coefllcient varies. 

FIGURE 8.1 The effect of the control parameter A on the steady-state concentration of the intermediate [X]ss. (a) Linear law (b and c) nonlinear law with monostability and multistability, respectively. The bifurcation points are denoted by Aj and A2. 

In Figure 5.17, a 10% decrease in the heat transfer coefficient is introduced. This disturbance enters the temperature loop directly and no other loop, and is assumed to be unmeasured. Hence, the controls are computed based on the old value of heat transfer coefficient. The controller parameters are fe = 2 and an integral gain of 1 on the temperature loop (X2). Because of the nature of the reference controller, one would expect the monomer (x,) and initiator (xj) loops to eventually return to the desired operating point after some dynamics even without integral action. Furthermore, because of the integral action in the temperature loop, at equilibrium, no offset exists in this loop. Also, note that the monomer and initiator loops are virtually unaffected by this disturbance. This follows from the nonlinear nature of the controller. Note that ultimately, there is no offset in the solvent loop (x J. In effect, the controller has perfectly rejected the disturbance in the entire Subsystem I (and hence, Subsystem II, in the absence of a disturbance to Subsystem II directly). It is clear that before the disturbance enters the temperature loop, the system is at equilibrium. The... 

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