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Controls and Safeguards

Explore how to implement controls and safeguards in distributed systems by drawing lessons from industrial robot safety. Understand strategies like limiters, hysteresis, and stateful resource management to prevent failures and manage automated responses effectively. This lesson helps you design resilient control software that anticipates delays, avoids overload, and signals anomalies for confirmation to maintain system stability.

Industrial robots

The United States has a government agency called the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). We don’t see them too often in the software field, but we can still learn from their safety advice for robots 10^{10} ...