This tutorial shows how digital controllers can be created from ananalog (or continuous) model. This is especially useful when aprocessor is used to control an analog system. Many methods areavailable ...

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Automation helped organizations survive the first wave of digital scale. The next phase will test who can combine execution with reasoning, speed with confidence and change with control. Forbes ...

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has approved a license amendment request from Duke Energy Carolinas to replace the analog controls at one of its nuclear power plants with a digital system. The ...

Digital fieldbus technologies, including Foundation fieldbus and Profibus, are increasingly being used with success in the nuclear and fossil fuel power industries. This article compares a ...

A digital-control system generally includes a set of system-response specifications (a transfer function), a controlled process, a computational element (CPU), sensors to measure the system's variable ...

In the past, businesses trying to economically provide a well-lighted workplace had a choice between lighting control systems with dimming functions and systems with switching functions. Now that the ...

The concept of upgrading systems in nuclear power plants to digital is not new. In the early 1980s, some manufacturers of instrumentation and control (I&C) equipment were already converting to digital ...

Learn to apply control systems in automotive, energy, aerospace, robotics, and manufacturing sectors. Apply feedback control laws to stabilize systems and achieve performance goals. Control systems ...

Review Plan is currently in progress to fully adapt it and the associated regulatory guides, branch technical positions, and USNRC endorsements of industry standards to digital I&C systems. Note that ...

Explore how digital feedback controllers manage motors, pressure, temperature, and more, and learn why ADC and DAC performance are crucial when designing robust embedded systems. How to define the ...

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