If you are acquainted with neural networks, automatic control problems
are good industrial applications and have a dynamic or evolutionary nature
lacking in STATIC pattern-recognition; control ideas are also prevalent in the
study of the natural neural networks found in animals and human beings.
If you are interested in the practice and theory of control, artificial neu-
ral networks offer a way to synthesize nonlinear controllers, filters, state
observers and system identifiers using a parallel method of computation.