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Despite the fact that control is integral to how the engineered world as well as the natural world function, it is hardly ever clearly identified. Control is truly a hidden technology. Indeed control and feedback consist in the intelligent design of control algorithms, and are implemented through the subtlety of interconnecting subsystems. The following analogy may illustrate how (well) control is hidden: control relates to systems, as the mind relates to the brain.
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Albertos, P., Mareels, I. (2010). Control Benefits. In: Feedback and Control for Everyone. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03446-6_11
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