Anti-aircraft fire control and the development of integrated systems at Sperry, 1925-40

Author

Mindell, David A.

Author_Institution

MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA

Volume

15

Issue

2

fYear

1995

fDate

4/1/1995 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

108

Lastpage

113

Abstract

The dawn of the electrical age brought new types of control systems. Able to transmit data between distributed components and effect action at a distance, these systems employed feedback devices as well as human beings to close control loops at every level. By the time theories of feedback and stability began to become practical for engineers in the 1930s, a tradition of remote and automatic control engineering had developed that built distributed control systems with centralized information processors. These two strands of technology, control theory and control systems, came together to produce the large-scale integrated systems typical of World War II and after

Keywords

closed loop systems; command and control systems; distributed control; history; military systems; weapons; anti-aircraft fire control; automatic control engineering; close control loops; control systems; distributed control systems; feedback; stability; weapon system; Automatic control; Centralized control; Control systems; Control theory; Data communication; Feedback; Fires; Guns; Gyroscopes; Humans;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Control Systems, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1066-033X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/37.375318

Filename

375318