Rewriting logic is a versatile and expressive framework that unifies the specification of concurrent systems with formal reasoning about their behaviour. It allows researchers and practitioners to ...

For PLC programming, U.S control engineers and technicians turn typically to ladder logic, a programming technique that’s been around since the birth of programmable logic controllers, or PLCs, in the ...

Dan Shapiro’s Robot Turtles board game Kickstarter showed there is serious appetite for kids’ games that aren’t just fun to play with but also sneakily teach core coding principles. Instead of the $25 ...

An overview of the hardware and software components of PLCs and their programming languages. A programmable logic controller (PLC) is an industrial solid-state computer that monitors inputs and ...

THE use of function blocks for programming of programmable logic controllers (PLCs) is gaining wider acceptance. Rather than the classic “contact and coil” representation of ladder diagram or relay ...

Pair programming with ChatGPT Codex for a week exposed hard-won lessons every developer should know before trying it.

Though they may be used to achieve the same goal, motion-control and robotics systems go about it in different ways. So, what exactly sets them apart? Automating the factory floor is a growing trend ...

Peter Bernard Ladkin presented evidence to the UK House of Commons Transportation Sub-committee on the development of the Swanwick system in 1997 and 1998. His tech-transfer company Causalis Limited ...

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