An adaptive system is a
system that is able to adapt its behavior according to changes in its environment or in parts of the system itself. A human being, for instance, is certainly an adaptive system; so are organizations and families. Some man-made systems can be made adaptive as well; for instance,
control systems utilize
feedback loops in order to sense conditions in their environment and adapt accordingly.
Robots incorporate many of these control systems.
Neural Networks are a common type of algorithmic implementation of adaptive systems.
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A
system that has a means of
monitoring its own performance, a means of varying its own parameters, and uses closed-
loop action to improve its performance or to optimize
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