Computational aspects of performance-adaptive self-organizing control algorithms

Sevaral algorithms appear scattered throughout the current literature which treat, in one form or another, problems which may be loosely categorized as belonging to the discipline of performance-adaptive self-organizing control. The need arises, therefore, to determine the usefulness of these algorithms to problems of interest and to ascertain in some way the advantages and shortcomings of the various available schemes. To this end the work presented here is part of an investigation made into the computational aspects of performance-adaptive self-organizing control algorithms. The investigation appeared in the form of a critical evaluation and comparison of the various methods relative to common qualitative and quantitative criteria. From the results of these evaluations and comparisons, conclusions were drawn concerning the relative merit of each scheme. The results of the application of several self-organizing schemes for one particular example, a non-linear heat treatment process, are presented here.