The Process to Design an Automation System

Abstract

Nowadays, automation has already entered human's lives. And here comes the problem, how could we design a valuable, usable and reliable automatic system? We need to determine which function owns the high-rights and which owns the low-rights. As for the type of functions, this paper proposes that automation can be applied to four classes of functions: 1) information acquisition; 2) information analysis; 3) decision and action selection; 4) action implementation [1]. This paper also introduces a new model of automatical system, called automatical window system, using the previous methods and information. The complexity of automation design requires high logical process, related techniques and real execution. Every single part matters and should be clarified before starting.