Systems and Automatic Control Engineering:

Automatic control engineers create much of the most complex technology on our planet, learn more about this field of engineering by watching the videos below. You may also view our page on notable U.S. control and systems engineer Harold Chestnut.

Wikipedia definition:

Control engineering or Control systems engineering is the engineering discipline that applies control theory to design systems with predictable behaviors. The practice uses sensors to measure the output performance of the device being controlled (often a vehicle) and those measurements can be used to give feedback to the input actuators that can make corrections toward desired performance. When a device is designed to perform without the need of human inputs for correction it is called automatic control (such as cruise control for regulating a car's speed).

Brief history of automatic control technologies:

 

The future space control engineering technologies:

 

B-29 automatic turrets and fire control computer (1945)

 

Boris Petrov - Control Engineer and Apollo-Soyuz leader:

 

Boris Petrov - short biography of one of Russia's most notable automatic control engineers

 

Yakov Tsypkin: notable Russian automatic control engineer

 

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