Simplifying Control Theory

It happens to all of us. You finish high school one day and the very next day, you’re already asking yourself: what should I study at college? Long story short: I ended up doing my Bachelor and Master degrees in a course called ‘Automation Engineering’. That name may be weird - depending on where you live - but it is pretty common here in Italy. The funny part is that my naive 18 years old self - as most naive 18 years old selves - knew nothing about what it’s getting itself into, except the name of the course. I guess what I’m trying to say is that I knew nothing about Control Theory back then yet Control Theory was the core of what we ended up studying at college. That being said, I’m not implying that I don’t like Control Theory. On the contrary, I love it. It’s fascinating and I’d like to share my perspective on it with whoever stumbles upon my posts and decides to give them a good read. One of the troubles that people face whenever they deal with Control Theory is that they find the whole thing pretty complicated and I will not argue that it is not but my goal here on Medium is to simplify it and try to make it a little bit more accessible. So that’s what we’re going to do. That will be the first post in a pretty fun series of Control Theory. Let’s use CT from now on. CT = Control Theory, obviosuly. I will define CT in this post. <a href="https://medium.com/@adeldennaoui/simplifying-control-theory-5acc2c88d9fe">Website</a>