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Control in general, and automatic control in particular, are of major importance in modern society. Systems from home appliances and automobiles, to robots, spacecrafts and nuclear reactors, require automatic control systems to maintain their operation. A control system may be required to maintain a stable condition, to follow a pre-specified path or to produce a periodic action.

“I’ll tell it”, said the Mock Turtle, in a deep hollow tone, “sit down, and don’t speak till I’ve finished”.

So they sat down, and no one spoke for some minutes: Alice thought to herself “I don’t see how it can ever finish, if it doesn’t begin”, but she waited patiently.

Lewis Carroll

(Alice’s Adventures Under Ground)

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Dracopoulos, D.C. (1997). Introduction. In: Evolutionary Learning Algorithms for Neural Adaptive Control. Perspectives in Neural Computing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0903-7_1

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