The seminar papers which comprise this book deal with advanced methods in adaptive control in industrial applications. Real time computer control methods are considered and system resilience is viewed as an important factor.

Adaptation of LQG control design to engineering needs.- Adaptation and robustness.- Digital controllers for ŠKODA rolling mills.- An expert system as a controller and its closed loop behaviour.- H? robust generalized minimum variance self-tuning controller.- Gnostical approach to robust control.- True digital control: A unified design procedure for linear sampled data control systems.- Polynomial LQ synthesis for self-tuning control.- Numerical analysis of diophantine equations.- Simple predictive LQ controller design.- Toward higher software effectiveness in the field of adaptive control.- Novel control architectures.- Process estimation: Linear adaptive algorithms and neural networks.- Towards more credible self-tuners ....- Theory and implementation of paper cross profile adaptive control.- Case studies in application of stochastic control theory.- Design of a multivariable self-tuning controller for a class of distributed parameter systems.- Intelligent parallel control.- Signal-based algorithms for self-tuning regulators easily implementable on single-board microcomputers.- Self-tuning control of robot manipulators.- Preliminary tuning of selftuners.- Adaptive control algorithm for time-variant processes.- Algorithms for conversion between the continuous-time models of linear systems and the discrete-time ones.