Re: A question for your Roboteers out there
Posted by
Russell Standish on
Feb 06, 2011; 8:55pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/A-question-for-your-Roboteers-out-there-tp5996169p5998514.html
On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 07:27:24AM -0700, Eric Smith wrote:
> Nick, hi,
>
> Been meaning to send this for a couple of days. There is a paper on
> the role of models in control theory, which is perhaps profound or
> perhaps a tautology (Mike Spivak comments that the two naturally go
> together):
>
> Conant, Roger C. and W. Ross Ashby. 1970. Every Good Regulator of a
> System Must
> be a Model of That System. International Journal of Systems Science 1
> (2):89-97.
>
Thanks for this reference! That looks very interesting. I find myself
woefully ignorant of the early systems engineering stuff.
--
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile)
Mathematics
UNSW SYDNEY 2052
[hidden email]
Australia
http://www.hpcoders.com.au----------------------------------------------------------------------------
============================================================
FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at
http://www.friam.org