Karl Johan Åström

Professor Emeritus of Automatic Control, Lund University

Lund University

1 standalone talk · 1 total lecture · 1h recorded

Engineering, Control & Robotics

Standalone talks by Karl Johan Åström

Self-contained public lectures, keynote addresses, and research seminars.

The History and Unreasonable Effectiveness of Feedback Control

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Engineering·Public Colloquium

The History and Unreasonable Effectiveness of Feedback Control

Karl Johan Åström·Lund University

Control pioneer Karl Johan Åström explains how negative feedback tames uncertainty, nonlinearity, and instability—from Watt's flyball governor and Black's amplifier to modern autonomy.