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Applied theory of movement control

A controlled dynamic system (CDS) is understood as a set consisting of a moving object, actuators and a control system. Therefore the first two directions of research at DAMC naturally bore a new direction - the applied theory of motion control. One can consider three kinds of CDS: technical (automatic); alive (natural); combinations of the first two (for example, systems of manual motion control, biotechnological systems, etc.). Note that the movement control systems have up to five levels (physiology). The first automatic regulators such as stabilizers and tracking systems were single-level motion control systems. The first results in the applied theory of motion control were obtained by B.V.Bulgakov in 1930-1940s when studying stabilization.

The paper "Theory of nonlinear fluctuations with applications to the theory of regulation " published by B.V.Bulgakov in 1943, was one of the major results of the Moscow University in those years and has been presented for the State premium of the USSR.

Later DAMC did a wide variety of research in this area. Let consider briefly the most important results in the analysis and synthesis of CDS.