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I'm always curious about delving deeper into the history of control theory. Specifically, the work pertaining to Cybernetics in the late 40s/50s. Has anyone gon

• kortex 6y ago
  In no particular order, here's some cybernetics-adjacent discoveries/inventions: - PID theory, especially pole analysis - linear quadratic regulator - digital filter design - the Hebbian rule of neurons - distributed consensus: paxos, RAFT protocol, blockchain protocol - STAR voting - pretty much everything deep learning, in particular descent algos like Adaboost - Conflict-free replicated data type (those are neat!) - Lorenz attractors - type theory - category theory
  • dreamcompiler 6y ago
    ...and Lorenz attractors leads to Chaos Theory which illustrates the central problem with nonlinear systems which brings up nonlinear control theory, state space control theory, etc etc
• pidtuner 6y ago
  During my control studies, when talking about history, professors always use the centrifugal governor as a control application that triggered modern formal studies about control (basically discovering how useful it can be) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrifugal_governor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrifugal_governor