>>11364891mechanical engineers, aerospace engineers, chemical engineers, and even civil engineers utilize control theory too. Control of mechanical systems can be particularly complicated, especially of non-holonomic systems. There's even work going on to do feedback control of turbulence. Feedback control of turbulence. Let that fucking sink in.
>>11365169>>11365258>>cyberneticsis a fucking meme field
>>11365066>>It's just block diagrams, isn't itno, and some block diagram components can be incredibly complicated.
>>What's it good forguiding missiles, getting man to the moon, keeping airplanes in the air, making robots walk and work, keeping your house at the right temperature, making chemical plants safe and efficient, and more.
>>11365280>> A common demonstration that a beginner could buildinverted pendulum. Putting a propeller on a stick and controlling it's speed so as to regulate it's height using a PID controller is a nice demo.
>>gameFrom the depths sort of teaches you about PID control, but that's about it. Videogames aren't the a good way to learn the fundamentals, cause you'll end up just tweaking numbers around randomly without knowing what's going on.
>>the fundamentalsMath. Lots of math and a bit of physics. For a modern approach to control theory MIT OCW's Underactuated Robotics class is pretty good. That's like advanced stuff though.
>>11365900>>the god of all engineering is electrical engineeringthe belief that one field of engineering is supreme above all others is childish. We engineers must acknowledge that we are equally inferior to the mathematicians.
