Learning methods in space technology

To begin, we must agree on what we mean by a learning system and a learning control system. A system is called learning if the information pertaining to the unknown features of a process or its environment is acquired by the system, and the obtained experience is used for future estimation, recognition, classification, decision or control such that the performance of the system will be improved. A learning system is called a learning control system if the acquired information is used to control a process with unknown features (these standardized definitions are taken from Reference 1). The attribute of "learning" that is associated with learning systems, derives from psychological learning theories, especially reinforcement learning theories.