Automation-Informatics-Communication-Artificial Intelligence, Past, Present and Future

Abstract

The paper presents state-of-the-art of the research, development of advanced control methods, control structures, information a communications technologies AI and their applications to the different types of industrial processes, health care, services. In this paper we analyse methodology and basic common principle of four close field scientific discipline automation, information, communications technologies, and mechatronics.  Automation, IKT, AI and Mechatronics is becoming an increasingly important discipline in today’s digital society. Automation technology is understood to be the use of such methods, control strategies, processes, and installations (hardware and software) which can fulfil defined objectives without the constant interference of man in a largely independent manner, i. e. automatically. Mechatronics integrates the fields of mechanical, electrical, control, and computer engineering. This concentration was created because knowledge across these disciplines is essential to improve and/or optimize the functionality of modern engineering systems. Motivated by the practical success of control engineering methods in consumer mechatronics products and industrial process control, there has been an increasing amount of work on development of new methods which are based on new robust, adaptive, effective numerical optimization techniques, soft computing strategies, and hardware realization of control algorithms using embedded controllers and FPGA circuits for fast dynamic processes.