制御工学の入門書における制御システムの表現の調査

抄録

The purpose of engineering is to achieve and maintain the well-being of mankind through the planning, realization and conservation of systems that utilize the resources and properties of nature. Economic activities using engineering techniques have brought material wealth to the lives of mankind. On the other hand, as we all know, the sustainability of the global environment continues to decline rapidly due to increasing pollution of the environment and depletion of resources. Control engineering is the art of improving and maintaining the ideal behavior of various systems by studying their dynamics in a usually quantitative manner. Will the control engineering of today be able to sustainably control such global dynamics? Or are there underlying defects in itself that prevent it from being sustainable? In this article, changes in the representation of control systems, which form the basis of control engineering, are investigated in textbooks available in my college. The results of this investigation confirmed that the representation of control systems has remained virtually unchanged for the last 60 years.