Four Generations of Control Theory Development ?
Tai Cheng Yang

TL;DR
This paper categorizes the evolution of control theory into four generations, highlighting the progression from transfer functions to AI-based control systems, offering a historical perspective on the field's development.
Contribution
It provides a novel framework for understanding control theory's development through four distinct generations, emphasizing the shift towards AI integration.
Findings
Control theory has evolved through four distinct generations.
The latest generation involves control in the AI era.
Historical perspective on control system development.
Abstract
This short article presents an opinion that control system study up to date can be divided into four generations; namely, 1 transfer function based; 2 state-space based; 3 networked control systems; and 4 control in the new AI era.
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