Trade-offs between traditional control and intelligent control: development of an applications framework

Both academics and practising engineers must adapt to the changing technologies available to them. Advancement and recognition is contingent upon the ability to make use of emerging technologies before a competing vendor or research group. As a relatively new concept in real world implementations, intelligent control systems are widely publicized in both scholarly journals and advertising material. Both the technical and economic issues that relate to the question of whether an intelligent system represents the best possible solution to a given control problem, are addressed in this paper.