Intelligent control in robotics

A new paradigm of solving control problems is considered: intelligent control. Conventional control theory does not offer adequate analytical and design tools for a number of systems: robots, automated manufacturing, multidimensional nonlinear and stochastic systems, multisensor systems, systems under human supervision, etc. Issues of dissatisfaction with conventional control theory are discussed. Several major domains of interest are formulated for the theory of intelligent control, as well as several possible avenues of their approaching in a nonconventional way. Nested hierarchical information structures are introduced typical for the problems formulated within the theory of intelligent control such as building multiresolutional multiloop controllers, providing continuity of planning/control processes, etc. 42 references.