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The BOXES paradigm has been successfully applied to control systems that are mechanically unstable. The primary application is the “Trolley and Pole” in which a freely hinged pole is balanced by rapidly reversing the direction of a guided trolley. This paper takes the BOXES (Michie [1]) methodology into the realm of continuous control systems, in which success is not measured by time to failure, but rather by the form factors of response to stimuli. To illustrate the method a classic second order, damped harmonic system is modified to include an AI contribution to its control parameters. The paper establishes that such contributions are both significant and desirable. The paper concludes with some encouragements for further study of systems that are poorly or partially defined.
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Russell, D.W. (1991). Studies in A.I. Augmented Control Systems using the Boxes Methodology. In: Rzevski, G., Adey, R.A. (eds) Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Engineering VI. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3648-8_40
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