Hi guys, I’m about a year (and a bit more) into my PhD in control systems, (Data driven Control, the idea is to build a useful controller I guess and then studying way to veryifing it) and lately I’ve been feeling somewhat lost.
I did my master’s in controls, and I really like the field. My PI is great but despite that, I often feel overwhelmed by the amount of information out there.
I read papers and I understand what they’re doing, … but then: what am I supposed to do next?
For each direction there are 100 papers that do or something very similar or something very different..
When I try to take inspiration from a paper and develop something slightly different, I end up with a thousand questions and no clear answers. On the other hand, just replicating a paper feels a bit unproductive and not very meaningful
Has anyone else gone through this phase? How did you move from understanding the literature to actually defining your own research??
Now I'm stuck in:
I read a paper, I understand it and then I ? Should I read other paper in the topic ? What should I do ?