The Development of Automatic Control in France

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  • Victor Poncelet
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Nineteenth-century French scientists, mathematicians, and engineers made enormous contributions to the study of dynamics, including analyses of governors and regulators, which we now view as important precursors of the modern discipline of automatic control. By the late 1930s at least some French engineers were aware of the advances in the analysis of feedback that had been made by Black and Nyquist in the United States in the preceding decade. Yet, during the Second World War, France found itself isolated, and neither the occupied zone nor Vichy offered a conducive environment for the sort of R&D that was taking place not only in the United States and the United Kingdom, but also in Germany and the USSR, and that led to the discipline of classical control. Immediately after the war, though, a great deal of French activity took place in promulgating the new ideas. By 1956, a year that saw several major international conferences, as well as the proposal to form the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), France had become a major player. A detailed survey of the history of automatic control in France appears as [1], which provides extensive bibliographic information. This article aims to introduce this aspect of the development of automatic control to a wide readership.

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تاریخ انتشار 2009