Dictionary of Electrical Engineering

Commonly used terms in the Electrical industry.

predictive control
control policy (scheme), realized at a given control layer, involving repetitive usage of a decision mechanism based upon considering, at each intervention instant, the future operation of the controlled process (or the control system as a whole) over specified period of time (prediction interval). Usually, predictive control involves the use of optimization-based decision tools and of the free input forecasting; predictive control is the term describing a variety of possible control schemes, in particular open-loop-feedback control and limited-look-ahead-control.