Advances in Internal Model Control Technique: A Review and Future Prospects

Abstract The current study endeavors to put together evolution, developments, and future prospects of internal model control strategy. Due efforts have been made to include all the techniques and philosophies used to that end. The brief account of the most recent techniques for near optimal and robust control has been provided along with a summary of conventional control schemes. At the same time, more emphasis is given on the issues in IMC design for single-input, single-output systems, like quantitative filter selection and tuning guidelines, modified structures, and related aspects of contemporary research developments. A set of references of all concerned papers, and a brief summary in them is provided. This paper also presents the results of these techniques as provided in the respective references. Illustrative example is given to show the effectiveness and the merits of the IMC based various forms.

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