Search results for " cybernetics"

Safety assurance of an industrial robotic control system using hardware/software co-verification

2022

As a general trend in industrial robotics, an increasing number of safety functions are being developed or re-engineered to be handled in software rather than by physical hardware such as safety relays or interlock circuits. This trend reinforces the importance of supplementing traditional, input-based testing and quality procedures which are widely used in industry today, with formal verification and model-checking methods. To this end, this paper focuses on a representative safety-critical system in an ABB industrial paint robot, namely the High-Voltage electrostatic Control system (HVC). The practical convergence of the high-voltage produced by the HVC, essential for safe operation, is f…

Organizational Systems: Managing Complexity with the Viable System Model (Book review)

2013

Fuzziness, Cognition and Cybernetics: a historical perspective

2015

In the present paper, we connect some old reflections about the relationships existing between the theory of fuzzy sets and cybernetics with modern, contemporary analyses of the crucial (better: unavoidable) role that fuzziness plays in the attempts at scientifically describing aspects of information sciences. The connection, which has a basic conceptual origin, has been triggered also by the recent 50th anniversary of Norbert Wiener’s death which has been instrumental in looking again at some crucial aspects of the birth of information sciences in the midst of the last century. Fuzzy sets are an essential part of this revolution and share all the innovations as well as the difficulties of …

“Ciberneretica” simondoniana

2023

This paper analyses the reception of Norbert Wiener’s cybernetics in France with particular attention to the perspective proposed by Gilbert Simondon. The debate that has emerged since the 1950s among the philosophers of the so-called French Theory opens up the possibility of speaking of a revised cybernetics on the basis of the need to go beyond the structural analogy between living being and machine. The present paper investigates the relationship between Simondon and cybernetics by considering his 1953 manuscript, his two doctoral theses and his speech at the Royaumont conference in 1962. It also focuses on the concept of ecceità that Simondon uses in order to speak from the qualitative …

Managing HMI utilities for control systems

2007

Masteroppgave i informasjons- og kommunikasjonsteknologi 2007 – Høgskolen i Agder, Grimstad The supervisor of this project, Origo Engineering AS delivers complete control and automation systems for the oil industry and smelting plants. Each hardware and software package is custom‐made. A part of the functionality is implemented by scripts – small programs that are coded and run directly on a Human Machine Interface (HMI) server. This method has some challenges, which are listed and further described in this report. Those challenges increase the time and cost of producing the control and automation system. The purpose of this master thesis is to design a solution that will solve those challe…

Enterprise content management: an analysis of contemporary practice and its relationships with enterprise architecture

2012

Masteroppgave i informasjonssystemer- Universitetet i Agder, 2012 Enterprise Content Management (ECM) consists of a wide set of interrelated issues, and previous research on ECM points out that there is a lack of a common understand of the concept itself. Further, there is a lack of a holistic approach to ECM and initiatives are often individual initiatives covering sub-parts of ECM. Organizations seem to have a more functional approach to ECM. Enterprise architecture (EA) is a concept which promises to provide a holistic and long-term view of a company’s processes, systems, and technologies so that individual projects can build capabilities – not just fulfill immediate needs. EA also promi…

Cybernetics of Value Co-creation

2014

The paradigm shift from value creation to value "co-creation" calls for a deeper grasp of organizational learning in marketing theory. This paper adopts a cybernetic view of the process of value co-creation to shed light on its relevant aspects and to supply a framework to implement operations and strategies to foster this process. Can cybernetics help to better understand the process of value co-creation? Can the Viable System Model (Beer, 1979) be a sound approach to shape a more effective value co-creation process able to achieve higher satisfaction and value? In this theoretical paper we will show how cybernetic can be effectively used to give a positive answer to both questions above

Complexity and Action. A Cybernetics Perspective to Decision Making - Plenary Lecture

2013

The problem often faced by some approaches to complexity is that of the abstraction from the competition character of action. Man often is not rational, because of his cognitive limits, his heuristics of thought, and his passions of which the most dangerous is fear. To be aware that the world is complex and there is no way to forecast the future is something that can scare at the point to inhibit decision and necessary action. Today there is a lot of talking about how the world, hence the markets, the social and business environment is complex, but few real proposals about what to do. The temptation coming from reductionist models and the reason why they are still so strong in the manageria…