Month: April 2019

The Robotic Industries Association (RIA)'s annual Engelberger Robotics Awards were given to Catherine Morris and Dr. Howie Choset. Courtesy: Robotic Industries Association (RIA)

Annual robotics award winners announced

Courtesy: CFE Media

Group develops system to legally test GPS spoofing vulnerabilities in automated vehicles

Figure 1: Two variants of mesh technology. Courtesy: Behr Technologies

Wireless low-power IIoT sensor networks differentiated

Redefine Capital Project Success

Meet the Future: Edge Programmable Industrial Controllers

Increase efficiency in machine engineering by at least 30%, thanks to complete end-to-end digitalization.

Turn Remote Sites Into Smart Remote Sites – Cellular Networking Solutions to Connect, Monitor and Control Remote Assets

Model-less multivariable control (XMC) automates the way operating teams have always carried out multivariable constraint control and optimizaton manually. Notably, this method does not require detailed models or embedded optimizers. XMC uses patented rate-predictive control (RPC) internally. Courtesy: APC Performance LLC

Process Instrumentation and Sensors

Model-less multivariable control benefits

ASCO's 5101 engine start modules continually monitor the operability of engine start signal circuits to ensure that engine-generators will receive start signals when emergency power is needed and also start engine-generators as soon as start circuit faults are detected. Courtesy: ASCO Power Technologies

I/O Systems, I/O Modules

Engine start modules

Carolyn Nichol, director of the Rice University Office of STEM Engagement, is principal investigator on the Noyce Texas Leadership Initiative for Inquiry Science Teaching, established with a $3 million National Science Foundation grant to give intensive leadership skills training to 20 teachers in high-need greater Houston schools. Courtesy: W. Schoffstall, Rice University

Educational Facilities

University wins grant to boost STEM education

Companies reliant on DCS technology realize migration is difficult and the process delicate, but it's worth it because the costs of losing control of a process is much higher. Courtesy: Maverick Technologies

DCS, SCADA, Controllers

Some best practices recommended for DCS migration

Figure 6: A first order control loop Bode analysis find the poles and zeros of the control loop. Courtesy: ControlSphere LLC

Mechatronics and Motion Control

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