• Instrument control consists of connecting a desktop instrument to a computer and taking measurements. In the late 1960s the first bus used for communication...
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    Musical Instrument Digital Interface (/ˈmɪdi/; MIDI) is an American-Japanese technical standard that describes a communication protocol, digital interface...
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  • remote instrument control. Instrument drivers are specified by the IVI Foundation and define an I/O abstraction layer using the virtual instrument software...
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    instrumentation software. Common applications include data acquisition (DAQ), instrument control, system management, and machine learning and vision. Following its...
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    A dashboard (also called dash, instrument panel or IP, or fascia) is a control panel set within the central console of a vehicle, boat, or cockpit of...
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    Theremin (category Electronic musical instruments)
    thereminophone or termenvox/thereminvox) is an electronic musical instrument controlled without physical contact by the performer (who is known as a thereminist)...
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  • and science about making measurement instruments, involving the related areas of metrology, automation, and control theory. The term has its origins in...
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  • (High-Speed LAN Instrument Protocol) is a TCP/IP-based protocol for remote instrument control of LAN-based test and measurement instruments. It was specified...
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    A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers that are pressed by the fingers. The most common of these are the...
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    functions in the audio chain, control surfaces can be used to control many aspects of music production, including virtual instruments, samplers, signal processors...
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  • visual programming language. It is widely used for data acquisition, instrument control, and industrial automation. It provides tools for designing and deploying...
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    The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) is a scientific research instrument for conducting spectrographic astronomical surveys of distant galaxies...
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    Rheometer (category Measuring instruments)
    strain-controlled instrument (control and apply a user-defined shear strain which can then measure the resulting shear stress) or a native stress-controlled...
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  • Virtual instrument software architecture (VISA) is a widely used application programming interface (API) in the test and measurement (T&M) industry for...
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  • Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt2 is an extended play record by the British electronic music artist and producer Aphex Twin. It was released...
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    by the performer and listener. An electronic instrument might include a user interface for controlling its sound, often by adjusting the pitch, frequency...
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  • troubleshooting, and repairing instrumentation, automation and control systems. The term "Instrument Mechanic" came about because it was a combination of light...
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    instrument control. The original GPIB standard was developed in the late 1960s by Hewlett-Packard to connect and control the programmable instruments...
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    protocol, there was still no standard for instrument-specific commands. Commands to control the same class of instrument, e.g., multimeters, varied between manufacturers...
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    Oscilloscope (category Measuring instruments)
    oscillograph, informally scope or O-scope) is a type of electronic test instrument that graphically displays varying voltages of one or more signals as a...
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  • communications, the two are not completely identical. Control engineering Control room Control theory Instrument control Remote sensing Remote terminal unit M&C!...
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    In aviation, instrument flight rules (IFR) is one of two sets of regulations governing all aspects of civil aviation aircraft operations; the other is...
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    A statutory instrument (SI) is the principal form in which delegated legislation is made in Great Britain. Statutory instruments are governed by the Statutory...
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    A brass instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound by sympathetic vibration of air in a tubular resonator in sympathy with the vibration of...
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  • These instrument designs first working models appeared in the 1970s, with the EWI appearing commercially during the early 1980s. EWI models can control external...
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    can be a simple computer-controlled digital multimeter, or a complicated system containing dozens of complex test instruments (real or simulated electronic...
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    In musical instrument classification, string instruments, or chordophones, are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer...
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  • example, in a control group design experiment, if the instruments used to measure the performance of the experiment group and the control group are different...
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  • Zurich Instruments products include impedance analyzers, phase-locked loops, digitizers and boxcar averagers. All products utilize the instrument control software...
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    In aviation, an electronic flight instrument system (EFIS) is a flight instrument display system in an aircraft cockpit that displays flight data electronically...
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