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The use of computers in control is not a new phenomenon; however, in the past, the number of individuals involved in developing software for digital control systems has been relatively small and applications generally have been limited to large plants. The current availability of very inexpensive computing power in microcomputers and the continued cost reduction and performance improvement of minicomputers has brought the many advantages of digital control within the economic range of even the most limited applications. At the same time, the requirements for increased energy efficiency, pollution control, and reliability have expanded the demand for sophisticated control, particularly in the automotive and appliance industries.(1–3) In some cases the advancing technology has created new classes of products such as active optical instruments(4) and sophisticated toys and other consumer products.
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Shumaker, R.P. (1981). Software Development for Digital Control. In: Tou, J.T. (eds) Advances in Information Systems Science. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9883-7_3
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