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The intelligent control systems and their perspectives

By Milica D. Djekic

The current industry would deal with many intelligent and even smart mechatronics solutions.
Also, those sorts of solutions would be used as the part of smart homes, smart buildings and
smart cities.

From the perspective of this research effort, we would talk about the intelligent control systems
that would become the part of our everyday lives and businesses.

Would a plenty of sensors and detectors make your intelligent asset being more intelligent? The
answer is – YES! Through this article, we would try to deal with the concept of intelligent control
systems and some of their perspectives making a deeper insight how it’s possible to put more
intelligence to your control solution.

By a psychological definition – intelligence is the ability of coping with the unknown environment
at a quite advantaged way. So, could we apply such a definition to the technological systems?

The answer is mostly – YES! Well, what would give intelligence to technical assets and why is it
important to make the intelligent technological systems?

First, the intelligent systems would so conveniently cope with any environment providing you a
lot of useful data about their surroundings.

This would offer you an opportunity to get a clearer picture about some important physical
parameters being present in that environment.

Also, if you put the sensors and detectors in a feedback branch of your control system – your
controller would deal with lots of accurate data and being led with the smart control algorithm –
it would get capable to make the good decisions.

So, the sensors, detectors and measuring devices are only the part of an intelligent solution.

To get something that would deal in a really advantaged manner, you need to do a skillful
design of the entire control system.

Maybe the sensors would increase the technological IQ of your asset, but the smart control
algorithm would make things deal in an advantaged way to you.

The quite good example of an intelligent control system is illustrated in a Figure 1 as follows.

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