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I went down this rabbit hole in grad and my opinion is that Control Theory is good for writing academic papers, but has few applications besides the classical o
by pid-1 4y ago
I went down this rabbit hole in grad and my opinion is that Control Theory is good for writing academic papers, but has few applications besides the classical ones (mostly in mechanics).
Techniques often need very strong assumptions about the systems being modeled, which severely limits their usefulness.
In fact, CT is sort of the antitheses of the currently most hyped way of modeling systems: Machine Learning.
- jbay808 4y agoI hope I will be able to change your mind!
- alanbernstein 4y agoI think you're sweeping a ton of valuable applications under the rug by saying "few applications besides the classical ones" ?
- lagrange77 4y agoInteresting username for such an opinion. Also systems modeling is not the same as control theory. You could indeed utilize machine learning to model a system, which you could then control by classical controllers. On the other hand, control algorithms that use machine learning are a thing.
- metaphor 4y ago> Interesting username for such an opinion. Perhaps just a coincidental namespace collision: Process ID, not Proportional-Integral-Derivative.
- lagrange77 4y agoYes, probably.