A Boeing H-6 helicopter cruises over the desert landscape of Mesa, Arizona, equipped with the Adaptive Vehicle Management System, or AVMS. The experimental system is designed to give rotorcraft ...

Researchers explain computer control of cellular processes. Hybrid experimental platforms combining microscopes and software are enabling researchers to interface living cells with control algorithms ...

Chiller plant control optimization has achieved heightened popularity over time as computerized controls enable increasingly sophisticated algorithms to maximize plant efficiency. In a predicted ...

Humans had to carry out all their machining processes by hand for centuries. Even precision tools had to be maneuvered very carefully, inch by inch, by people holding the devices personally. That all ...

Whenever a doctor, nurse or administrator in Georgia's DeKalb Medical Center sends an e-mail, the message detours through a special box in the three-hospital system's computing cluster. The box ...

According to information from the Fire Apparatus Manufacturers' Association (FAMA) an average of 5,650 apparatus are purchased each year, and they all have some form of electronic computer controls, ...

When Bernard Ziegler learned to fly in the 1950s, pilots controlled jets via cables and rods powered by hydraulics. By the time he retired as a senior vice president of Airbus in 1997, the former ...

Diving deeper into the last true 'pilot's fighter jet' of naval aviation.

Researchers from the Pasteur Institute and Inria, with researchers from the CNRS and Paris Diderot University, and from the Institute of Science and Technology (IST) in Austria, have published two ...