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[[Electrical circuit]]s, [[digital signal processor]]s and [[microcontroller]]s can all be used to implement [[control system]]s. Control engineering has a wide range of applications from the flight and propulsion systems of [[Airliner|commercial airliners]] to the [[cruise control]] present in many modern [[automobile]]s.
In most cases, control engineers utilize [[feedback]] when designing [[control system]]s. This is often accomplished using a [[
Although feedback is an important aspect of control engineering, control engineers may also work on the control of systems without feedback. This is known as [[open loop control]]. A classic example of [[open loop control]] is a [[washing machine]] that runs through a pre-determined cycle without the use of [[sensor]]s.
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Originally, control engineering was all about continuous systems. Development of computer control tools posed a requirement of discrete control system engineering because the communications between the computer-based digital controller and the physical system are governed by a [[computer clock]].{{r|Keviczky_2019|p=23}} The equivalent to [[Laplace transform]] in the discrete ___domain is the [[Z-transform]]. Today, many of the control systems are computer controlled and they consist of both digital and analog components.
Therefore, at the design stage either:
Therefore, at the design stage either digital components are mapped into the continuous ___domain and the design is carried out in the continuous ___domain, or analog components are mapped into discrete ___domain and design is carried out there. The first of these two methods is more commonly encountered in practice because many industrial systems have many continuous systems components, including mechanical, fluid, biological and analog electrical components, with a few digital controllers.▼
* Digital components are mapped into the continuous ___domain and the design is carried out in the continuous ___domain, or
* Analog components are mapped into discrete ___domain and design is carried out there.
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Similarly, the design technique has progressed from paper-and-ruler based manual design to [[computer-aided design]] and now to [[computer-automated design]] or CAD which has been made possible by [[evolutionary computation]]. CAD can be applied not just to tuning a predefined control scheme, but also to controller structure optimisation, system identification and invention of novel control systems, based purely upon a performance requirement, independent of any specific control scheme.<ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.1016/S0952-1976(01)00023-9|title=Performance-based control system design automation via evolutionary computing |year=2001 |last1=Tan |first1=K.C. |last2=Li |first2=Y. |journal=Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence |volume=14 |issue=4 |pages=473–486 |url=http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/3807/1/Dr3_Y_Li_paper1.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150503181152/http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/3807/1/Dr3_Y_Li_paper1.pdf |archive-date=2015-05-03 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.1007/s11633-004-0076-8|title=CAutoCSD-evolutionary search and optimisation enabled computer automated control system design |year=2004 |last1=Li |first1=Yun |last2=Ang |first2=Kiam Heong |last3=Chong |first3=Gregory C. Y. |last4=Feng |first4=Wenyuan |last5=Tan |first5=Kay Chen |last6=Kashiwagi |first6=Hiroshi |journal=International Journal of Automation and Computing |volume=1 |pages=76–88 |s2cid=55417415 |url=http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/3818/1/IJAC_04_CAutoCSD.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120127151632/http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/3818/1/IJAC_04_CAutoCSD.pdf |archive-date=2012-01-27 |url-status=live }}</ref>
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