Christian Fritz

Adapting control architectures for smarter machines

Cover story: Embedded systems help create smart machines, providing flexibility, increasingly autonomous operations, diagnostics, and adaptive improvements to add productivity. Algorithms and tools that were used for high-end research a few years ago are now breaking into the industrial market.

Embedded systems

Choosing embedded controllers among others requires considering the application. Embedded system design software helps control designers to program once and port to many types of controllers.