ph control is a challenging problem due to its highly nonlinear nature. in this paper the performances of two different adaptive global linearizing controllers (glc) are compared. least squares technique has been used for identifying the titration curve. the first controller is a standard glc based on material balances of each species. for implementation of this controller a nonlinear state est...

The paper uses empirical process techniques to study the asymptotics of the least-squares estimator for the fitting of a nonlinear regression function. By combining and extending ideas of Wu and Van de Geer, it establishes new consistency and central limit theorems that hold under only second moment assumptions on the errors. An application to a delicate example of Wu’s illustrates the use of t...

we present a structured algorithm for solving constrained nonlinear least squares problems, and establish its local two-step q-superlinear convergence. the approach is based on an adaptive structured scheme due to mahdavi-amiri and bartels of the exact penalty method of coleman and conn for nonlinearly constrained optimization problems. the structured adaptation also makes use of the ideas of n...