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Control and feedback are truly everywhere and touch all of us. They play a crucial role in both the natural and the engineered world. In fact neither nature nor our engineered world could possibly function without feedback. Yet, despite its prevalence we are often totally unaware of its presence. It is often said that control is a hidden technology, which is not such a bad thing for a technology, however it is not very good for the self esteem of its engineers.
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Albertos, P., Mareels, I. (2010). Introduction. In: Feedback and Control for Everyone. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03446-6_1
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