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Primary Thought on the Incorporation of Intelligent Control and U-control (I-U-control)

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Quanmin Zhu Quanmin Zhu 1 ORCID
Haihong Wang Haihong Wang 2 * ORCID
1 School of Engineering, University of the West of England, Bristol BS16 1QY, United Kingdom
2 College of Information Science and Technology, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Qingdao 266061, China
* Corresponding Author: Haihong Wang, [email protected]
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Abstract

This study explains the main idea and structure of an integrated What-How intelligent control and universal control (I-U-control) system. The proposed framework consists of two control layers. The bottom layer uses the U-control framework to manage 'How' to control within a universal framework. The top layer uses intelligent control (I-control) to coordinate and guide 'What' to achieve both global and local control goals. This study also reviews the configurations, functions, and integration of these two control layers in analysis, design, and applications.

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Primary Thought on the Incorporation of Intelligent Control and U-control (I-U-control)

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universal(U)-control data-driven operation control Lyapunov stability lyapunov derivative inequality intelligent (I)-control goal-oriented control systems (GOCS) What-How intelligent control systems (WH-ICS)

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This work was supported without any funding.

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Quanmin Zhu served as an Associate Editor of the ICCK Transactions on Sensing, Communication, and Control at the time of manuscript submission. To ensure the integrity of the peer-review process, Quanmin Zhu was not involved in the editorial handling, peer review, or decision-making process for this manuscript, which was handled independently by another editor. The remaining author declares no conflicts of interest.

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