Dr. Ruth Bars2024-12-162024-12-16https://dspace.academy.edu.ly/handle/123456789/889In industrial applications, the most widely spread controllers are the PID controllers. Besides, predictive controllers have also gained numerous industrial applications, as taking into account expected future errors in a prediction horizon they can ensure better control performance than PID controllers, especially in cases of big dead time and when the future reference signal is known. The tuning parameters are the prediction horizon, the control horizon, the weighting factors. The control signal is obtained by minimising a cost function. Simplified version of predictive control is PFC, predictive functional control, which has expressive tuning parameters. In simplicity it can be competitive to PID controlIn control systems, the goal is to design a controller for the system to be controlled to meet the quality specifications (stability, static and dynamic behaviour, constraint handling). Different controller structures can be considered, where the parameters have to be tuned appropriately.NEW PREDICTIVE FUNCTIONAL CONTROL ALGORITHMS