What is cybernetics?


Cybernetics
is the interdisciplinary study of the structure of regulatory systems. Cybernetics is closely related to control theory and systems theory. Both in its origins and in its evolution in the second-half of the 20th century, cybernetics is equally applicable to physical and social (that is, language-based) systems.

Contemporary cybernetics began as an interdisciplinary study connecting the fields of control systems, electrical network theory, mechanical engineering, logic modeling, evolutionary biology, neuroscience, anthropology, and psychology in the 1940s, often attributed to the Macy Conferences.

Monday, March 9, 2009

Machine perception

In computing, machine perception is the ability of computing machines to sense and interpret images, sounds, or other contents of their environments, or of the contents of stored media.

Real-time perception of a machine's environment is useful in industrial processes, such as assembly, inspection, diagnosis, vehicle guidance, etc. Off-line perception of stored media is useful in medical and aerial photo interpretation, content-based indexing and retrieval of movies and images, etc.

Machine perception includes:

  • Machine vision
  • Machine hearing
  • Machine touch



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