Technical articles on control systems engineering, functional safety, and process automation.
How the simplest possible feedback controller — unity static gain — can suppress resonant oscillations in flexible structures, and why Bode's sensitivity integral means you can't cheat the trade-offs.
How vectors — simple ordered lists of numbers — serve as a universal language across control theory, neural networks, language models, and neuroscience.
Why failure should not be feared — drawing on the Incident Learning Process, Kathryn Schulz's 'Being Wrong,' and Matthew Syed's 'Black Box Thinking' to reframe mistakes as essential opportunities for growth.
A review of 'Rational Accidents: Reckoning with Catastrophic Technologies' by John Downer — why ultra-high reliability can't be engineered before deployment, and must be learned through recursive operational experience.
Understanding ISA99/IEC 62443 cybersecurity standards for industrial control systems.
Methods and calculations for pollutant emission rate determination in industrial processes.
How we can understand behavior and brain activities.
A practical guide to fuel safety in combustion systems — covering BMS design, interlocks, and safety considerations.
The Monty Hall problem explained — why switching doors gives you better odds, and why intuition fails us.
Exploring the role of human operators in automated control systems and the design principles for effective human-in-the-loop automation.
How to monitor fuel air ratio control and meet the latest Canadian fuel safety code — covering flue gas oxygen monitoring, fuel air ratio calculation, and field data validation.