EPN Industrial Automation Blog

embedded world 2011: Virtual Android

The smartphone operating system Android is very versatile, but you wouldn’t want it causing havoc in safety critical systems. However, if you can’t do without and no safer alternative like Blackberry OS or iOS around, virtualization can keep your system clean.

Why I don’t like to write about Stuxnet

»Why don’t you write about Stuxnet?« – »Stuxnet is a must in an automation blog!«
Well… sometimes even I should take advice from readers. In this case, however, I’m not sure if I really should, at least not at the moment. Why?

Robot Design

Not only avid readers of science fiction literature consider Isaac Asimov's famous three (or four) laws of robotics quite a good idea. So, why on earth does nobody think of them when devoloping robotic systems? Maybe the graphical systems design software LabVIEW Robotics 2009 facilitates coding of these fundamental rules.