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Article #136Re: Nonlinear optimal control program available ?
From: Angelo Campanella
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:42
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:42
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A century or so a fellow by the name of Watts had a nonlinear control problem where he was employed to turn a steam valve on and off repeatedly. Being naturally lazy, he invented a leverage sysytem for the machine to do it for itself. He was then credited for inventing the steam engine. I rather suspect he went through an evolution process where he needed at times too much memory and too much space. We seem to have compressed those requirments in intervening centuries...
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Newsgroups: sci.engr.control,alt.control-theory Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!acampane From: acampane@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Angelo Campanella) Subject: Re: Nonlinear optimal control program available ? Message-ID: <1992Dec22.204244.20869@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Sender: news@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: top.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu Organization: The Ohio State University References: <1h08q1INNl15@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU> <1992Dec21.182151.22271@pasteur.B Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:42:44 GMT Lines: 9