The quest for better throughput, faster changeover times, and less waste and downtimes has made machine-automation systems more complicated. Besides handling logic or process controls, systems today ...

Instructions in a program arranged in a prescribed order to solve a problem. Give a requirement to several programmers, each is likely to create different program logic. As long as the program works, ...

Inductive logic programming (ILP) and machine learning together represent a powerful synthesis of symbolic reasoning and statistical inference. ILP focuses on deriving interpretable logic rules from ...

When learning ladder logic, I was told that some new PLC systems were moving to scripted programming languages. My instructor assured us that we would not need to know anything other than ladder logic ...

Temporal logic provides a formal language with which one can express time-dependent behaviours, facilitating rigorous reasoning about the sequential evolution of system states. This branch of ...

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When I was an engineering student, I was fascinated about such subjects as Analog electronics, Logic Design, Microcontrollers etc.I loved the time I spent in my college laboratories, but unfortunately ...

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Does the world need a new beginner’s programming language? In the 1960s, BASIC, FORTRAN, LISP and ALGOL were the primary introductory programming languages. In the 1970s and 1980s, Pascal, C, ...