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caitlin's avatar

Since this is liveblogging a course, I wonder if it would also be possible for you to post the exercises? Sure I could just pick up the control theory book on my desk and do exercises in there, but since I'm reading these notes, it would help to have the exercises be a bit more in sync.

Ben Recht's avatar

Great idea. This is a grad seminar, so I don't have exercises per se, but I like your idea of making them anyway. I'll think a bit more about how to do that. In the meantime, many of the readings I've assigned here

https://www.argmin.net/p/feedback-learning-and-adaptation-d6c

have exercises and auxiliary exposition that you might find helpful.

Maxim Raginsky's avatar

One important concept that does not immediately follow from homeostatic considerations is dynamic equilibrium. While it is necessary to maintain fixed setpoints as a matter of life or death, life processes involve time variation, where certain temporal trajectories are viable while others are not.

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Avik De's avatar

F is the system dynamics where the appearance of a disturbance probably can’t be assumed to be controlled. Typically F also has an input argument (the thing that can be controlled), and that is what is doing the regulation (rejecting the disturbance).