Four Generations of Control Theory Development ?
arXiv:2102.08190v1
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This provides a conceptual overview for researchers and practitioners in control theory, but it is incremental as it organizes existing knowledge rather than introducing new methods or results.
The article categorizes the history of control system study into four generations: transfer function-based, state-space-based, networked control systems, and control in the new AI era, presenting this as an opinion-based framework.
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.