Lazy learning methods provide useful representations and training algo
rithms for learning about complex phenomena during autonomous adaptive
control of complex systems, This paper surveys ways in which locally
weighted learning, a type of lazy learning, has been applied by us to
control tasks, We explain various forms that control tasks can take, a
nd how this affects the choice of learning paradigm. The discussion se
ction explores the interesting impact that explicitly remembering all
previous experiences has on the problem of learning to control.