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Publication summary
Author(s): Sandy Ressler and Steve Clark
Publication date: October 1989
Citation: Sandy Ressler and Steve Clark: "VOILA: A System for Looking at Processes," NISTIR 4196, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, 1989.
Availability:
- A paper copy of this document is available by contacting Kristy Thompson [web,email]
Abstract:
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The ability to visualize data is becoming an increasingly important
research field in its own right. How do scientists present, view, and
communicate the information contained in data, systems or programs in
meaningful ways? This paper presents one approach to the problem of
visualization in the context of illustrating and observing a control
system. Specifically, the application domain is a real-time control
system (RCS) developed at NIST. This system allows a control system
to be specified as a hierarchy of finite state machines. Although it
was developed primarily for the control of factory floor applications,
the RCS has been applied to many other types of systems as well,
including multiple autonomous underwater vehicles, the strategic
defense initiative, and telerobotic arm control. Integration into the
existing control systems development environment was a key goal of the
visualization project.
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