Catching the bus: how electronic control technology interfaces with hydraulics

摘要

Back in the 1970s, I wrote an article titled, "Must Hydraulics Interface with Computers?" The answer to the question was, "yes, of course." So I coined the term "fluitronics" to characterize the hybridization of the fluid power and electronic technologies. Fig. 1 shows the algorithm used to illustrate the structure of the evolving fluitronics technology; but modified to emphasize those functions now integrated into bus systems (this diagram is the fourth or fifth iteration). The devices listed within the bus box are called "modules" in bus parlance.