As I read a news story on how India lost and found its Vikram Lander on the moon, I couldn't help thinking about some of the spectacular automation crashes and failures I've witnessed. Fortunately for India, it was not a total loss; its Chandrayaan-2 orbiter and its eight scientific instruments will likely be orbiting the moon and providing valuable information for years.Over my career and like India's moon program, I have definitely lost a lander craft or two, but the main ship still functioned—after the bent parts were repaired. However, complete system failures do occur during machine startup or maintenance activities. Fortunately, I was just a spectator to some…
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HMI design should account for the information that is required to be seen by an operator.
Never have more I/O system options been available to the controls designer, and it's OK to use several different formats
And its starting with robotics becoming a plug-and-play solution.
