Bolton, Roland Leslie John2016-08-162016-08-162016-08-16http://hdl.handle.net/10539/20870A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Engineering, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Johannesburg, October 1997This thesis develops and investigates signal processing models that are useful both for interpreting and implementing certain types of Model Predictive Control. Two types of Model Predictive Control are investigated, namely, techniques based on Internal Model Control and Long Range Predictive Control. [Abbreviated abstract. Open document to view full version].enPredictive control--Mathematical models.Signal processing--Digital techniques|xMathematicsThesis