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4 unusual facts about Control system


Citizen of the Galaxy

The advanced education provided by Baslim and the fast reflexes of youth make him an ideal fire controlman, in which position Thorby destroys a pirate craft.

IEEE Transactions on Control Systems and Technology

The journal publishes papers, letters, tutorials, surveys, and perspectives on control systems technology.

J.C. Wylie

For his improvised integration of radar, gunnery, and torpedo control during these two actions, Wylie received a Silver Star.

Post-PFI Soviet/Russian aircraft projects

The left fuselage was to contain the piloting equipment and radar sensors, whereas the right fuselage was to accommodate the weapons systems and a Fire-control system.


CPA Council of India

Allied Areas: The allied areas include management accounting, financial management and electives like accounting standards, forensic accounting, management control systems and business analysis and valuation.

Self-parking system

The basic components of such a system are a rear-mounted camera, servo-motors for turning the steering column and activating brakes, and a micro-computer based control system to perform the parking maneuver.

Synchro

Fire-control system designs developed during World War II used synchros extensively, to transmit angular information from guns and sights to an analog fire control computer, and to transmit the desired gun position back to the gun location.


see also

4D-RCS Reference Model Architecture

4D/RCS integrates the NIST Real-time Control System (RCS) architecture with the German (Bundeswehr University of Munich) VaMoRs 4-D approach to dynamic machine vision.

Abdulla Hisham

Hisham worked as a control system and automation engineer and lead the famous automation project for UAE University, which is ranked as the best Research University in the GCC and the world’s largest, single education public-private partnership project.

ACDS

Advanced combat direction system, a centralized, automated command-and-control system

Active heave compensation

A control system, often PLC or computer based, then calculates how the active parts of the system are to react to the movement.

Aeronautical Systems Center

Support systems included a highly mobile tactical air control system, disposable parachutes, intrusion alarms for air base defense, and a grenade launcher for the AR-15 rifle.

Airship Industries Skyship 600

The control system developed by Marconi is "fly by light" — using optical fibres to carry the control signals between gondola and the control surfaces.

Albert L. Hopkins

worked at the US MIT Instrumentation Laboratory (now known as the Draper Lab) during the development of the Apollo Guidance, Navigation, and Control System, or the GN&C.

ALCC

Airborne Launch Control Center, a portion of the United States Air Force's Airborne Launch Control System

Alenia Aermacchi M-346 Master

The aircraft is powered by two Honeywell F124 engines, and uses a digital flight control system by Teleavio/Marconi in collaboration with BAE Systems, Dowty and Microtecnica for actuators.

ANTEX-M

From 2006 to 2008, the Air Force Academy and the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP) collaborated in developing an autonomous flight control system for unmanned aircraft.

ASOCS

The ModremX cores can run distinctly different communication air-interfaces simultaneously on one platform and it can utilize interconnected grid of domain-specific Algorithmic Processing Units (APUs), controlled by a two-level control system that optimizes power consumption.

Bell Aircraft

Bell also developed the Reaction Control System for the Mercury Spacecraft, the North American X-15 and the Bell Rocket Belt.

Cabin pressurization

The control system for this was designed by Garrett AiResearch Manufacturing Company, drawing in part on licensing of patents held by Boeing for the Stratoliner.

Cadillac STS

It also offered enhanced safety features, including a lane departure warning system developed by Mobileye, a blind spot monitoring system, and an improved version of GM's StabiliTrak stability control system, which could operate the steering system in addition to the brakes to help correct a skid.

CoDeSys

The CODESYS Professional Developer Edition offers the option to add components to the tool which are subject to licensing, e.g. integrated UML support, a connection to the Apache Subversion version control system or static code analysis of the application code.

Comand APS

COMAND 2.5 uses a D2B optical bus for connection to the external CD changer, the telephone system, the optional Bose surround sound system and the optional Linguatronic voice control system.

Conway Yard

The westbound hump yard was outfitted with an automatic control system called VELAC, which was designed and installed by the Union Switch and Signal Company.

Daniel Jubb

Due to escalating costs caused by control system delays, a second hybrid rocket for Bloodhound will also be developed by Nammo.

Digital Command Control

A digital command control system was developed (under contract) by Lenz Elektronik GmbH of Germany in the 1980s for two German model railway manufacturers, Märklin and Arnold (models).

Embrace the Darkness

The name of the robotic control system, ROSM, is clearly an homage to the title character Rossum in R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), a Czech play from 1921, which first introduced the word 'robot' to the general lexicon.

ESTCube-1

Mission Control System is currently being developed by the students of Tartu University under the supervision of the company CGI Group.

Fault tree analysis

Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) was originally developed in 1962 at Bell Laboratories by H.A. Watson, under a U.S. Air Force Ballistics Systems Division contract to evaluate the Minuteman I Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) Launch Control System.

Fire controlman

They are trained in the repair, maintenance, operation and employment of weapons such as the Tomahawk Missile System, the Close-In Weapons System, the 5"/54 caliber Mark 45 gun weapon system and its associated MK86 or MK160 Gun Fire Control System, the MK92 Gun Fire Control System (on Frigates) the Sea Sparrow missile system, and the Harpoon Missile Systems.

Futaba Corporation

Competing brands of radio control system brands include Hitec, Spektrum RC (JR), Airtronics (Sanwa), Japan Remote Control (JR) and Graupner.

Head Control System

Head Control System is a cross-national rock/metal band featuring Portuguese Daniel Cardoso (ex-Sirius and ex-Re:aktor) and Norwegian Kristoffer Rygg (of Ulver and ex-Arcturus and ex-Borknagar).

Jacinto-class corvette

This weapon is integrated with the 76 mm primary weapon via an Ultra Electronics Command and Control System and a Radamec 1500 Series 2500 Electro-Optical Tracking/Fire Control System.

John W. Flannagan Dam

Opening the gates is coordinated with other dams on the Big Sandy River and Ohio Rivers as a part of a larger flood control system.

K1 88-Tank

The XK1 retained the XM1's M68E1 105 mm rifled main gun, which would also be domestically produced under license with the designation KM68, as well as a fire control system by Hughes Aircraft Company and the Nd:YAG laser rangefinder.

La Combattante IIIb-class fast attack craft

For the four Combattante III fast attack craft, Thales Nederland will deliver a TACTICOS combat management system, including four multifunctional operator consoles, one surveillance radar, one fire control tracking system, one electro-optical tracking and fire control system, an integrated low probability of interception radar, two target designation sights and a tactical data link.

Lee Price

Up against the Y2K deadline, her team flawlessly replaced the Y2K non-compliant Command and Control System in South Korea.

Mazda B engine

It features S-VT variable valve timing on the intake side, no more VICS, but there is Variable Tumble Control System (VTCS) in the BP-Z3.

Nyquist criterion

Nyquist stability criterion, a graphical technique for determining the stability of a feedback control system

Policy by press release

It included several images that appeared to be provided to them by Avro Canada, or someone in contact with them, including a description of the control system which was identical to the one used on the Avrocar.

Polytron

The PolyMake product was followed in 1985 by the Polytron Version Control System (PVCS) (also written by Kinzer), that was loosely based on the RCS change control system authored by Walt Tichy while at Purdue University.

ProtoStar

For ProtoStar II the primary control system will be installed in Indonesia and operated by Indovision, with a backup system integrated into the control system for ProtoStar I. Hardware and software for these systems are being provided by Integral Systems.

Rapid Execution and Combat Targeting System

The previous ICBM command and control system, designated Command Data Buffer, required over 20 hours to retarget the entire Minuteman force and 30 minutes to retarget a single ICBM.

SACEM

The Système d'aide à la conduite, à l'exploitation et à la maintenance is an embedded automatic speed control system used on railway systems, including the RER A suburban railway of Paris and some of the MTR and Santiago Metro lines

Sándor Kürti

Working for Honeywell, (Bracknell, UK) he simulated process control system of a catalytic crack plant.

Spearhead-class joint high speed vessel

The control system for this class is provided by General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems through an open architecture computing infrastructure (OPEN CI).

TANGO

EPICS—Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Transducer electronic data sheet

First, the TEDS can reside in embedded memory, typically an EEPROM, within the transducer itself which is connected to the measurement instrument or control system.

VAL

Variable Assembly Language, a computer-based control system and language designed specifically for use with Unimation Inc. industrial robots

Ward Leonard control

Ward Leonard Control, also known as the Ward Leonard Drive System, was a widely used DC motor speed control system introduced by Harry Ward Leonard in 1891.

Wayne E. Meyer

Withington delivered a report to the Secretary on May 15, 1965, recommending a phased array S-Band radar to search and track air targets, six slaved X-band radars for illumination and fire control, a digital control system compatible with the Naval Tactical Data System, a standard missile that could be directed in flight, and a dual-rail launcher.

Whitin Observatory

The facilities include a 24-inch Boller and Chivens reflector with a CCD and retrofitted with a DFM control system, a 12" Fitz/Clark refractor, a 6" Alvan Clark refractor, a Hale Spectrohelioscope, and six Meade 8" SCTs.