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Off-road driving is a delicate (and ever-changing) dance of obstacle avoidance, tire placement, steering inputs, throttle touch, and brake control. Some manufacturers understand this, and these ...

In this chapter, I will present a few useful “cookbook” applications for real-time control circuits designed to perform some specific low-level task and interface with a master controller for ...

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Many power plants have a distributed control system nearing the end of its useful life. Here’s how to determine when to replace it—and how to plan the upgrade project. Power plants were among the ...

Several years ago, the owners of Iberdrola Renewables’ Klamath Cogeneration Plant in Oregon began looking for an alternative control system strategy for their Pratt & Whitney FT8 turbines. They turned ...