In dictionaries:
Gate control theory
Pain perception modulated by gates.
H-infinity methods in control theory
Social control theory
In criminology, social control theory proposes that exploiting the process of socialization and social learning builds self-control and reduces the inclination to indulge in behavior recognized as antisocial.
Perceptual control theory
A model of behavior, in numerous disparate fields, based on the properties of negative feedback control loops that maintain a sensed variable at or near a reference value by means of the effects of their outputs upon that variable, as mediated by physical properties of the environment.
Classical control theory
a branch of control theory that deals with the behavior of dynamical systems with inputs, and how their behavior is modified by feedback, using the Laplace transform as a basic tool to model such systems.
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