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Historical Perspective of Automation

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Editor note: This chapter includes three parts: 2.1 A History of Automatic Control by Christopher Bissell; 2.2 Advances in Industrial Automation: Historical Perspectives by Theodore J. Williams; and 2.3 Advances in Robotics and Automation: Historical Perspectives by Yukio Hasegawa. The three parts were written by leaders and pioneers of automation, at the time the original edition of this handbook was published in 2009. Our distinguished editorial advisory board members have recommended to keep these chapters as originally published, for their authentic historical value. Additional historical perspectives, specific to chapter topics, are provided throughout this Handbook.

Christopher Bissell: deceased. Theodore J. Williams: deceased. Yukio Hasegawa: deceased.

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  1. Department of Communication and Systems, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK

    Christopher Bissell

  2. College of Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA

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  3. System Science Institute, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan

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Bissell, C., Williams, T.J., Hasegawa, Y. (2023). Historical Perspective of Automation. In: Nof, S.Y. (eds) Springer Handbook of Automation. Springer Handbooks. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96729-1_2

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