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Are those topics no longer relevant to today's state of the art research?

• Sean1708 9y ago
  It's possible that you're just expected to know them at that point.
  • donquichotte 9y ago
    Agreed. Many state of the art control strategies nowadays are based on optimization techniques (e.g. Model Predictive Control, MPC, optimizes a convex cost function of the state, setpoint and input to your system over a certain time horizon). This has become a viable control strategy for fast (>1kHz) processes only in the past 15 years, since the optimization can be computationally intensive.
  • regularfry 9y ago
    Or be able to derive them. PID was never explicitly taught on my course, but all the theory behind it was.
• tnecniv 9y ago
  Research? Largely no, although they crop up now and then in clever ways. They are still very relevant in industry, however.