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Question 9.RQ.3: A lamp used as a thermal actuator has a nonlinearity such th...

A lamp used as a thermal actuator has a nonlinearity such that the experimentally measured output power is related to the input voltage by P = V^{1.6}. How would you deal with such a nonlinearity in feedback control design?

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