UC Riverside

Jay A. Farrell, Editor of the Digital Object Identifier, informs about the enhanced sensing, actuation, communication, and computational capabilities that enable increasing utilization of control theory research results, improving performance and reliability, giving rise to new areas of control applications, and motivating new directions of control research. In addition to sound control-theoretic research, effective contributions in such application domains require investigators to become control ambassadors. These people are willing to invest sufficient time to learn the fundamental domain knowledge in these application areas. The author informs that the second edition of the 'Impact of Control Technology' report provides several interesting examples of increasingly capable control systems enabled by growing computational, communication, algorithmic, and analysis capabilities.