The city of Manchester is the first area to have complete automatic voltage regulation and it also has supervisory control for its main substations.

Following up from last month’s column [“Automatic Pumpdown Systems,” Nov. 5], author John Tomczyk discusses different types of automatic pumpdown control systems.

The functions, design and mode of operation of a new electronic control system for automatic transmissions for city buses are described. Apart from the dual-channel computer structure for safety ...

Assistant Professor Xudong Chen has been recognized with the Donald P. Eckman Award, one of the most prestigious honors in the engineering discipline-spanning field of automatic control. Chen earned ...

This article explores methodology for adding RS-485 capability to a PC’s RS-232 serial port by implementing automatic direction control.

With few exceptions, RS-485 transceivers include a direction control to switch the driver between transmit and receive, thereby making the serial interface half-duplex only (one direction at a time).