Monitoring and control of process and power systems: Towards new paradigms: Status report prepared by the IFAC Coordinating committee on Process and Power Systems

Process and power plant control, along with fault detection/isolation are being addressed by significant on-going research with many theoretical developments focused on improvements for all of these major industrial applications. This report provides an overview of the current key problems, recent accomplishments and trends, as well as a forecast of anticipated developments within this very important field of industrial applications.