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Introduction: Overview of Intelligent Controls

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Methods and Applications of Intelligent Control

Part of the book series: Microprocessor-Based and Intelligent Systems Engineering ((ISCA,volume 16))

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Intelligent Control has now achieved a good shape, although the definition and structure of an intelligent control system is still a debatable subject. Actually, intelligent control is an enhancement of traditional control to include the ability to sense and reason about the environment with incomplete and inexact a priori knowledge, and execute commands and controls in an adaptive, flexible and robust way. The field of intelligent control was founded by Fu in 1971 [1] as an intersection of artificial intelligence and automatic control. The demand for higher autonomy and higher productivity has motivated throughout the years extensive research in the field of intelligent control covering a diversity of topics such as learning control, knowledge-based (expert) control, fuzzy control, neural control, neurofuzzy control, sensing technology, sensory data processing and fusion, task planning, automated fault diagnosis and restoration, and obstacle-risk avoidance.

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Tzafestas, S.G. (1997). Introduction: Overview of Intelligent Controls. In: Tzafestas, S.G. (eds) Methods and Applications of Intelligent Control. Microprocessor-Based and Intelligent Systems Engineering, vol 16. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5498-7_1

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