Answers are grounded in this paper and cite their sources.
The future of control in cyberspace of parallel worlds is discussed. It argues for the coming age of Control 5.0, the control technology for the new IT capable of dealing with artificial worlds with VR, AR, AI and robotics. The discipline of automation needs a new interpretation of its core knowledge and skill set of modeling, analysis, and control for cyber-socialphysical systems, and a paradigm shift from Newtonian Systems with Newton's Laws or Big Laws with Small Data to Mertonian Systems with Merton's Laws or Small Laws with Big Data.
No takes yet. Share an insight, caveat, or question.
Fei‐Yue Wang (2016) studied this question.
Synapse has enriched 10 related papers. Consider them for comparative context: