Juan M. Martín-Sánchez obtained the title of Industrial Engineer in 1970, and Doctor Industrial Engineer in 1974, both from the Polytechnic University of Catalunya (UPC). From 1971 to 1976, his research activities were continued at Grenoble and Toulouse Universities in France, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory in the United States, and the University of Alberta in Canada. In 1976, he filed the first patent for predictive and adaptive predictive control, and subsequently he obtained 3 additional international patents for both control methodologies. In 1986, he founded the company SCAP Europa which went on to carry out more than 150 industrial applications of the adaptive predictive control methodology between 1986 and 1998. In 1999 Martín-Sánchez founded the company Adaptive Predictive Expert Control ADEX S.L., of which he is currently the President. This company develops optimization projects based on adaptive predictive expert control in industrial areas such as chemical, petrochemical, energy, cement, metallurgy, naval, aerospace, environment and climate control. He has authored more than 100 publications and three books on adaptive predictive control, has given plenary sessions at important international conferences, seminars and congresses, and has been a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Control. He has been a professor at the UPC, the University of Alberta and the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. In addition to his role as President at ADEX, S.L., he is also currently a full professor at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) in Madrid (Open University of Spain). Between January 2004 and January 2009, he has been President of the IEEE Joint Spanish Chapter of the Industrial Applications Society (IAS) and the Control Systems Society (CCS). In 2005 and 2007 under his Presidency, the Chapter organized two Seminars of Advanced Industrial ControlApplications (SAICA). These events took place with great success in the "Fundación Gómez-Pardo" in Madrid. In January 2009, Dr. Martín-Sánchez was elevated to the grade of IEEE Fellow for his "Contributions to the Adaptive Predictive Control methodologies". During 2010 and 2011 was a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE and, at present, a Prominent Lecturer. As Guest Editor, he prepared a Special Issue on Industrial Optimized Adaptive Control of the International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing that was published in October 2012.

Provides the reader with a complete set of proven theoretical concepts and practical tools for the development of industrial optimized adaptive control systems

Demonstrations on regularly-used benchmark applications allow comparison with other forms of control under consideration

Gives the reader confidence in the technology discussed via individual sections on conceptual knowledge, technical realization, and practical experimentation

Includes supplementary material: [...]

Introduction and Fundamentals of Optimized Adaptive Controllers and Systems.- Introduction to Optimized Adaptive Controllers and Systems.- Scenarios, Notation and Stability Conditions.- Exercises for Part I.- Design of the Driver Block: Basic and Extended Predictive Control Strategies.- Basic Strategy of Predictive Control.- Extended Strategy of Predictive Control.- Exercises for Part II.- Design of the Adaptation Mechanism: Synthesis of the Adaptive System.- Analysis and Synthesis of the Adaptive System in the Real Case.- Exercises for Part III.- Stability Theory of Adaptive Predictive Control.- Stability Theory.- Exercises for Part IV.- Benchmark Applications of Predictive, Adaptive Predictive, and Optimized Adaptive Control.- Multivariable Control of a Distillation Column.- Control of a Bleach Plant in a Pulp Factory.- Technological realization of ADEX Optimized Adaptive Control Systems.- A Software Platform for Adaptive Predictive Expert Control Applications.- Application of ADEX COP v.1 to the Biological Process of a Wastewater Treatment Plant.- ADEX Optimized Adaptive Control System for the Sulfur Recovery Process at Pemex Cadereyta Refinery.- ADEX Optimized Adaptive Control System for Superheated Steam Temperature in a Coal-Fired Power Plant.- Appendices: Some Basic Concepts of System Analysis; Other Predictive Models and Performance Indices; Input/Output Properties of Stable Linear Processes; ADEX COP Manuals.