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Four Generations of Control Theory Development ?

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Tai Cheng Yang

Systems and Control · Submitted 11 Feb 2021

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The authors' main claim This short article presents an opinion that control system study up to date can be divided into four generations; namely, 1 transfer function based; 2 state-space based; 3 networked control systems; and 4 control in the new AI era.

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CitationTai Cheng Yang. "Four Generations of Control Theory Development ?." arXiv:2102.08190 (2021). https://pith.science/paper/7HPKXTJZ
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This short article presents an opinion that control system study up to date can be divided into four generations; namely, 1 transfer function based; 2 state-space based; 3 networked control systems; and 4 control in the new AI era.

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This short article presents an opinion that control system study up to date can be divided into four generations; namely, 1 transfer function based; 2 state-space based; 3 networked control systems; and 4 control in the new AI era.

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