Intermittent Control in Man and Machine
For researchers in control theory and physiology, this work synthesizes and advances understanding of intermittent control, but it is primarily a review with incremental extensions.
This paper reviews and extends a mathematical model of event-driven intermittent control, bridging physiological and engineering perspectives, and provides examples of its properties in human control systems.
Intermittent control has a long history in the physiological literature and there is strong experimental evidence that some human control systems are intermittent. Intermittent control has also appeared in various forms in the engineering literature. This article discusses a particular mathematical model of Event-driven Intermittent Control which brings together engineering and physiological insights and builds on and extends previous work in this area. Illustrative examples of the properties of Intermittent Control in a physiological context are given together with suggestions for future research directions in both physiology and engineering.