Le Yi WANG
Journal of Systems Science and Complexity. 2001, 14(1): 1-016.
This is a tutorial paper which presents schematically the concepts of information, uncertainty, and complexity, and their relationships in their applications to control systems. By focusing on exact or lower bounds on achievable performance in the presence of uncertainties,studies of complexity in a control system can potentially reveal fundamentally limiting factors of the system,suggext beneficial modifications to system structures and hardware configurations to remove these limitations,provide benchmark values for evaluating a design and for quantifying rooms for performance improvement,and demonstrate intrinsic tradeoffs.