Some Topics in Neural Networks and Control
Eduardo D. Sontag · 1993
This report constitutes an expanded version of a presentation given by the author at the 1993 European Control Conference (short course on "Neural Nets for Control"). The first part places neurocontrol techniques in a general learning control framework. The second part of the report, which is essentially independent of the first, briefly surveys several basic theoretical results regarding neural networks. Keywords Neural Networks, Control Siemens Corporate Research, Inc. 755 College Road East, Princeton, New Jersey 1. Introduction In the past few years, the field commonly referred to as "neuro-" or "connectionist" control has been the focus of a tremendous amount of activity. This trend represents to a great extent a return to the original ideas of Norbert Wiener, who in his 1940s work on "cybernetics" drew no boundaries between the now-separate fields of artificial intelligence, information theory, and control theory. It is by no means the goal of this paper to provide an exhaustiv...