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Very roughly speaking, control system design deals with the problem of making a concrete physical system behave according to certain desired specifications. The ultimate product of a control system design problem is a physical device that, if connected to the to be controlled physical system, makes it behave according to the specifications. This device is called a controller.
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Trentelman, H.L., Stoorvogel, A.A., Hautus, M. (2001). Introduction. In: Control Theory for Linear Systems. Communications and Control Engineering. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0339-4_1
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