The MatPLC is an open-source control application, consisting of a core, generic modules, and tools for creating custom modules.
This paper describes the preliminary design of a greenhouse that uses open source control systems.
However, this can be challenging due to lack of open source control architecture, different machine types and automation degree, changing operating loads, and dynamic failure rates in a real environment.
The demonstrated ability for active control of experimental systems opens new possibilities for deep-sea biogeochemical perturbation experiments of several kinds and our developments in open source control systems software and hardware described here are applicable to this end.
This is, however, not a real limitation, because GitHub is essentially based on Git (git-scm.com), an open source versioning control system.
QUADRA encompasses both an open source distributed version control system 'Git' (Version 1.7.2.2 [ 36]), an adaptation of the open source Ruby on Rails web hosting platform 'Gitorious' [ 37] as well as 'good operating principles' in genomic computation.
MetaboLights ideally requires the submitter to provide the raw experimental data using an open source format, including control samples, replicates, blank samples and any additional experiments or chemical standards used for metabolite identification.
We consider here the ability of a copyright holder to dedicate certain work to free public use and yet enforce an "open source" copyright license to control the future distribution and modification of that work.
Since Linden Labs is about to make the whole thing an open source project – while retaining control of the crucial namespace facility – we may well be able to all do this in the not too distant future.
The advantages of using an open source board for the proposed control system are analysed and the benefits of using a control system based on a microcontroller are discussed.
