DocumentCode :
1699060
Title :
On the conceptualization of automatic control
Author :
Zhiqiang Gao
Author_Institution :
Center for Adv. Control Technol., Cleveland State Univ., Cleveland, OH, USA
fYear :
2013
Firstpage :
199
Lastpage :
204
Abstract :
Critical to the progress in any branch of science, automatic control included, is the perpetual reflection on the basic conceptions and assumptions. As researchers of automatic control on both sides of the Pacific Ocean take note of the past achievements, current challenges, and future opportunities, it is imperative that we once again return to the roots, to reconnect to the “empirical force”, as Prof. John von Neumann puts it, that inspired and shaped the field of automatic control at the beginning. After well over a half century of rapid developments in theory and timid progress in practice, we scrutinize, in this paper, the very notion of feedback as the single idea upon which the entire field rests. We show a distinctly different conceptualization of automatic control that gives us hope for a bright future.
Keywords :
feedback; Pacific Ocean; automatic control conceptualization; empirical force; feedback notion; Control systems; Control theory; Feedback control; Feedforward neural networks; Mathematical model; Process control; Technological innovation; Cybernetics; Disturbance Rejection; Feedback; Feedback Control; Feedforward; Principle of Active Control;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Control Conference (CCC), 2013 32nd Chinese
Conference_Location :
Xi´an
Type :
conf
Filename :
6639427
Link To Document :
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