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Engineering always starts with a model. It may be an inaccurate diagram roughed out on a notepad, yet it serves the same purpose as any of the models discussed in this thesis: helping the designer understand and predict the dynamics of the system he is building. In the most general sense, a model is anything used in any way to represent anything else [182]. Some models are physical objects used to represent another physical object at a more convenient scale. However, most models used in science and engineering are abstract constructions that rely on mathematical concepts and language to describe an underlying system.
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Mermoud, G. (2014). Fundamentals of Modeling. In: Stochastic Reactive Distributed Robotic Systems. Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, vol 93. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02609-1_5
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