AUTOMATIC ADJUSTMENT IN A CONTINUOUS ENVIRONMENT,

Abstract

Control devices, biological or otherwise, which are able to adjust their own internal parameters are discussed. It is shown that under certain circumstances the adjustment process must depend on experimental fluctuations superimposed on either the parameters or the control signals. The way is studied in which the effective fluctuations attributed to the parameters can best be computed from fluctuations of the control signals. A mathematical comparison is given of two ways in which a self-improving controller may operate, namely with and without an explicit model of the environment. For a simple control task the two are shown to be almost exactly equivalent. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1965
Accession Number
AD0624548

Entities

People

  • A. M. Andrew

Organizations

  • University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Automatic
  • Biological Phenomena
  • Ecological And Environmental Phenomena
  • Environment

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Adaptive Control and Estimation with Uncertainty in Dynamic Systems.
  • Systems Analysis and Design