The financial reform bill seeks to curb Wall Street's taste for derivatives by moving most swap trading to regulated clearinghouses. Yet a provision quietly dropped from the legislation last week ...

Proportional-integral-derivative (PID) is the most common industrial technology for closed-loop control. A proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller can be used to control temperature, ...

Proportional-integral-derivative (PID) control is the most common control algorithm used in industry today. The popularity of PID controllers can be attributed to their effectiveness in a wide range ...

Self-regulating systems with feedback loops, i.e., the routing back of the output of a system to its input, have existed since antiquity and have since become an integral part of modern technology.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health), Jun 1 - A water-soluble chitosan derivative (Catacidin, Synedgen, Inc.) breaks up plaque-forming bacterial biofilms. While the current research, reported at the American ...

Controlling hydraulic motion with precision involves understanding the fundamental difference between servo motors and hydraulic actuators. Electric motors generally respond linearly to control inputs ...