Once upon a time it didn’t seem necessary to protect automation systems (PLCS’s) against hackers and people with bad intentions. They were connected to isolated networks and there was no link to the outer world. Nowdays engineers want to see how their machines are doing on the other side of the planet meaning that in [...]
Posts from ‘August, 2011’
Making a Lego factory
Automating a factory is fun (it’s my job) but when the factory is made of Lego bricks it’s even better. The Lego factories are mostly controlled by one or more Lego Mindstorms brain. Lego Technics has a huge amount of possibilities for the mechanical design.
Swarm bots
Swarm bots or swarm robotics is the name for a multirobot system consisting of large number of mostly simple robots. The idea emerged on the field of artificial swarm intelligence, as well as the biological studies of insects and other fields in nature, where swarm behavior occurs.
It can be used to create a larger robot in [...]