Hybrid problems in smart matter control

• AAAI 1999: Hybrid Systems and AI: Modeling, Analysis and Control of Discrete + Continuous Systems

The remarkable increase in computer capabilities per unit price has led to an explosion of computer applications in processing information. Similarly, the significant increase in sensor and actuator capabilities per unit price now underway, combined with the aforementioned computer advances, will enable a rapid increase in the number of control systems, i.e., systems that can sense and manipulate their environment. In this paper, some of the challenges associated with creating such hybrid control systems for large numbers of components will be discussed and some of our inital work in this area will be described.

citation

Jackson, W. B. ; Fromherz, M. P. J. ; Berlin, A. A. ; Biegelsen, D. K. ; Cheung, P. Hybrid problems in smart matter control. AAAI Spring Symposium 1999: Hybrid Systems and AI: Modeling, Analysis and Control of Discrete + Continuous Systems; 1999 March 22-24; Stanford, CA.