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Origin of Stability Analysis in View of On Governors by Maxwell

Maxwell의 On Governors를 통해 본 안정성 해석의 기원

  • Received : 2016.03.24
  • Accepted : 2016.05.06
  • Published : 2016.06.01

Abstract

James C. Maxwell published a paper titled "On Governors" in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London in 1868. However, this paper was ignored for about 80 years due to unreadability of the paper itself. In 1948, Norbert Wiener revived this paper and identified it as the first significant control theory paper, which gave Maxwell his due as the first contributor to this theory. The purpose of this article is to provide historical information on the origin of stability analysis through Maxwell's paper, and to revisit the key idea of the paper in view of the present stability theory with clear explanations. This article includes a proof and some illustrative figures of governors that were not shown in the original publication.

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