Autonomous automation refers to 'the use of autonomous software agents to adapt the controllers of computer controlled industrial

Industry

Industry refers to the production of an economic good or service within an economy.-Industrial sectors:There are four key industrial economic sectors: the primary sector, largely raw material extraction industries such as mining and farming; the secondary sector, involving refining, construction,...

 machinery and processes'

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The term autonomous automation has in the past, on a limited number of web-sites, been used mainly to refer to 'the use of autonomous computer controlled industrial

Industry

Industry refers to the production of an economic good or service within an economy.-Industrial sectors:There are four key industrial economic sectors: the primary sector, largely raw material extraction industries such as mining and farming; the secondary sector, involving refining, construction,...

 machinery and processes'. Since automation

Automation

Automation is the use of control systems and information technologies to reduce the need for human work in the production of goods and services. In the scope of industrialization, automation is a step beyond mechanization...

 implies autonomy to a great extent this usage can be considered as somewhat redundant.

Previous references to 'autonomous automation'

• http://alumnus.caltech.edu/~croft/research/agent/definition/
• http://www.enme.ucalgary.ca/~aramirez/DES-Research.html
• http://www.ikp.liu.se/usr/marlu/IKP-Diss907.pdf
• http://www.cs.bath.ac.uk/~anneb/Solo.pdf
• http://mers.csail.mit.edu/theses/HofbaurThesis.pdf