RT Journal Article
T1 Open Problems on Information and Feedback Controlled Systems
A1 Cao García, Francisco Javier
A1 Feito Guzmán, Manuel
AB Feedback or closed-loop control allows dynamical systems to increase their performance up to a limit imposed by the second law of thermodynamics. It is expected that within this limit, the system performance increases as the controller uses more information about the system. However, despite the relevant progresses made recently, a general and complete formal development to justify this statement using information theory is still lacking. We present here the state-of-the-art and the main open problems that include aspects of the redundancy of correlated operations of feedback control and the continuous operation of feedback control. Complete answers to these questions are required to firmly establish the thermodynamics of feedback controlled systems. Other relevant open questions concern the implications of the theoretical results for the limitations in the performance of feedback controlled flashing ratchets, and for the operation and performance of nanotechnology devices and biological systems.
PB MDPI
SN 1099-4300
YR 2012
FD 2012-04-19
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/43093
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/43093
LA eng
NO Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN)
NO Universidad Complutense de Madrid/Comunidad de Madrid
DS Docta Complutense
RD 12 abr 2025