New Perspectives in Industrial Control

This paper aims at providing a brief overview of industrial control methods ; it takes into account the evolution arised in the last years, and attempts to point up some perspectives. At first it lists the different steps of the life cycle of the Automated Production Equipment, then expounds the need for several types of models, corresponding to different aspects of the control development, and shows the problems brought up by their obtention or their validation. It reviews some control methods, with special emphasis on their anticipatory aspects. It tries to make clear not only the main ideas, but also the operating conditions corresponding to each method.