National Instruments has an automated software package -- "LabVIEW System Identification Toolkit" http://www.ni.com/pdf/labview/us/sys_id_toolkit.pdf -- which (I assume) can converge to an optimal control strategy for an unknown multi-input/multi-state system which may be non-linear, noisy and time-varying much faster than Rossi ever could by guesstimating.
If Rossi is real, then I assume NI either possesses an e-cat, or has access to one or to his 1-MW plant. Does anyone know? > just a correction. > to stabilize a system you don't necessarily need to know how it work. > Good engineer (in france we call that domain "Automatique". It is the guys > who can stabilize a building heating, a rocket, a servo, an hybrid car > engine... an old branch of cybernetic) know how to extract key data from > the behavior of the system.... > > after observing the behavior of the system after some changes and > perturbation, and if possible some modelization > typically the first things is to guess the number of captors and actioners > needed to control the system. > you should also guess/measure the incompressible delay that you cannot > absorb... > then you can modelize (phenomenologically) the system, decide a target of > control (should it be, stable, fast, economic, simple, robust or fine...). > then you can compute the optimal controller... > you can also make an adaptive version of that controller that guess the > key > parameter all along, and keep nearly optimal despite changes, and non > linearity or slow changes. > > > 2011/12/24 Terry Blanton <hohlr...@gmail.com> > >> You have to >> understand the reaction to understand what makes it unstable. >