For those new to fields like robotics or aerospace, it can seem at first glance that a problem like moving a robot arm or flying an RC airplane might be simple problems to solve. It turns out, however ...

When a hazardous materials (hazmat) response team arrives on the scene of an accident, there are many unknowns. Whether the potential hazard originates from an overturned semi-truck on the side of a ...

In an RL-based control system, the turbine (or wind farm) controller is realized as an agent that observes the state of the ...

Self-regulating systems with feedback loops, i.e., the routing back of the output of a system to its input, have existed since antiquity and have since become an integral part of modern technology.

Machines and processes are controlled using many strategies, from simple ladder logic to custom algorithms for specialized process control, but proportional-integral-derivative (PID) is the most ...

As I mentioned in my recent review for the Vita game Dokuro, I’m not an exceptionally talented puzzle gamer, but I’m still intrigued by and regularly drawn into the genre. As a pretty and unique ...

Hot glue guns are pretty simple beasts: there’s an on/off switch, a heating element, and a source of current, be it battery or wired. You turn it on, and the heater starts warming up; ...