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Control System Evolution and the Importance of Trial and Error |
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- P. Duval, M. Lomperski
DESY, Hamburg, Germany
- J. Bobnar
Cosylab, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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We address the importance and benefits of trial and error in control system evolution. Our focus is on particle accelerators and large machines, whose control systems, although complex, will not lead to catastrophe in case of failure. In particular we focus on the evolution of control system software. We shall contrast classical Darwinian evolution via natural selection with control system evolution, which proceeds rather via artificial selection, although there are numerous software memes which tend to replicate according to their 'fitness'. The importance of general trial and error, i.e. making mistakes and learning from them, in advancing the capabilities of a control system will be explored, particularly as concerns decision making and overcoming 'Einstellung', i.e. the predisposition to solve a given problem in a specific manner even though better or more appropriate methods of solving the problem exist.
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※ https://doi.org/10.18429/JACoW-PCaPAC2016-WECSPLCO02
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