Intelligent hybrid industrial control

Intelligent three term controllers are a natural evolution of the ubiquitous three-term industrial controller that has reigned supreme for almost a century. Through the addition of an embedded discrete-event supervisor, a conventional three-term controller can be endowed with the intelligence necessary to permit pareto-optimum operation over an extended range. Intelligent hybrid controllers provide improved control performance for highly nonlinear processes where conventional controllers are ineffective. We focus on a new type of intelligent logic-based switching controller.