Real-time optimization by extremum-seeking control

Publisher's description: Extremum seeking is a method of adaptive control outside the classical paradigm or model reference and related schemes. The unique feature of extremum seeking as an optimization tool is that is is an on-line methodology, performed by feedback, and with the ability to achieve rapid convergence. A second distinction between classical adaptive control and extremum seeking is that the latter is not model based. Its non-model based character explains the remarkable popularity of extremum seeking in the last half decade: the recent applications in fluid flow combustion, and biomedical systems are all characterized by complex, unreliable models. Written by authorities in the field and…