Historical perspective and state of the art in connectionist learning control

Connectionist learning control is surveyed, starting with work by learning control engineers in the sixties and early seventies. The controllers are reviewed in a roughly chronological order, stressing the concepts and interaction of components in each learning control architecture. Some comparisons with adaptive control techniques are made, some necessarily so because of the integration of adaptive control techniques into some of the systems.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">></ETX>