Madrid SME specialising in adaptive and predictive control systems for aerospace and nuclear safety-critical applications.
ADEX is a Madrid-based technology SME whose name encodes its core competency: adaptive, predictive, expert control systems. They develop and apply advanced control algorithms — self-tuning, model-based, and intelligent — to safety-critical applications where standard PID control is insufficient. Their H2020 track record shows two distinct application domains: autonomous flight control for aerospace platforms, and control contributions to a large European nuclear transmutation research program. As a small specialist firm, they likely serve as a control engineering subcontractor or technology provider when larger industrial or research programs need bespoke intelligent control solutions.
The company name itself — Adaptive Predictive Expert Control — and both projects (flight control system tuning, nuclear reactor process control) confirm this as their foundational technology.
AST-FCS_vF (2014–2015) was an SME Instrument Phase 1 feasibility study they coordinated, focused on an adaptive self-tuning flight control system ready for qualification.
MYRTE (2015–2019) is the MYRRHA sub-critical nuclear transmutation research program at SCK-CEN Belgium, where ADEX contributed EUR 89,063 worth of specialist work over four years.
Both aerospace and nuclear domains demand deterministic, fail-safe control behaviour, suggesting ADEX operates at the intersection of control theory and safety-critical engineering standards.
ADEX's H2020 participation spans only 2014–2019, a short early window. They opened with an internally-led aerospace feasibility study — a clear signal of a company trying to commercialise its own flight control technology via the SME Instrument route. Within a year they joined MYRTE, a large multi-partner RIA in the nuclear domain, pivoting from aerospace ownership to specialist contributor in a very different sector. This short arc suggests they were actively probing where their adaptive control expertise could find the most traction, rather than committing to one vertical.
ADEX appears to be a control-technology generalist testing its algorithms across sectors — anyone building a consortium around complex process control, autonomous systems, or safety-critical automation should consider them as a technical specialist.
ADEX has experience in both leading and following roles: they led an SME Phase 1 project entirely on their own technology, and they joined as a partner in one of Europe's most complex nuclear research consortia. The MYRTE consortium alone accounts for the bulk of their 33 partner connections across 9 countries, meaning their network breadth reflects their large-consortium participation rather than repeated bilateral relationships. As a small SME, they are likely most effective when plugged in as a focused control-systems specialist rather than as a program manager.
ADEX has touched 33 unique consortium partners across 9 countries, a disproportionately wide reach for a two-project SME — almost entirely a consequence of MYRTE's large multi-national consortium. Their direct bilateral collaboration history is thin; the network is broad but shallow.
ADEX occupies an unusual position: a Spanish private SME with demonstrated control-systems expertise in both aerospace and nuclear domains — two sectors that almost never overlap in a single small company's portfolio. Their company name and product focus suggest a proprietary adaptive control methodology, not just general engineering consulting. For a consortium needing a Southern European SME with genuine control-theory depth and safety-critical application experience, ADEX is a rare find.
