Intelligent control, encompassing the theory and applications of both artificial intelligence and automatic control, is discussed. Three types of software environment and architecture for intelligent control systems have been developed: single expert systems that only process symbolic information and provide assistance to control engineers in the decision-making process for design and offline monitoring; coupling systems that simply combine numerical computation programs with an expert system so that it can be used to solve some engineering problems; and integrated intelligent systems, large knowledge-integration environments that can integrate different expert systems and numerical packages to solve complex problems. The authors point out that building an expert system is not just a translation from the existing knowledge into a computer program. It is a process in which new expert knowledge can be generated and acquired.
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IEEE Proceedings of the National Aerospace and Electronics Conference Volume 3, 1989, Pages 1168-1174
