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dealing with some software – it would be absolutely capable to collect some information from its
surrounding. Let’s try to explain this using the human being’s organism.

As it’s known – people would use their five senses to collect the information about the external
world. Such collected data would get sent to the brain through the person’s neural network
being extended through the entire human body. The brain would process those data and send
back the signal what got necessary to get done. We would also mention that the nervous cells
would use the electrical impulses to transfer the information. So, you would see the similarities
between the human organism and the intelligent control system. For instance, if the person
would touch anything hot – his brain would suggest him to move his hand from that place.

For such a purpose, the human would use the power of his muscles to make that move on. The
similar situation is with the intelligent control systems. For example, when the robotic arm gets
in the final position, the sensors would send that signal to the processing unit that would talk
back to the robotic arm to stop. For such a purpose, the system would use the power of its
actuating device being – let’s say, the DC motor. So, if we make a correlation between sensors
and our five senses; processing unit and the brain; actuators and the human muscles – we
would realize it’s quite simple to understand how the intelligent control systems work.

Finally, we would mention that the sensors would move up our technological IQ. This could be
assumed as a quite good illustration of how we could approach those parts of our intelligent
control system. More sensors you put into your control system – the better its capacity to deal
with the unknown environment would be. In other words, your processing unit would gather
more data and if you do a good programming – it would respond intelligently to the certain set of
situations being predicted with such software.

The technical systems are quite limited with the laws of physics and mathematics, so they would
get intelligent or even smart only if their designers put lots of effort to make them being like so.
In conclusion, we would use the quite simple illustration how the intelligent control systems work
in a practice and we would recommend to everyone dealing with them to think hard how those
systems could face on the next generation of their designs which would make them getting safe
and secure at the same glance.

About The Author

Since Milica Djekic graduated at the Department of Control Engineering at
University of Belgrade, Serbia, she’s been an engineer with a passion for
cryptography, cyber security, and wireless systems. Milica is a researcher
from Subotica, Serbia. She also serves as a Reviewer at the Journal of
Computer Sciences and Applications and.

She writes for American and Asia-Pacific security magazines. She is a volunteer with the
American corner of Subotica as well as a lecturer with the local engineering society.

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