Autonomous System

Autonomous system may refer to:

  • Autonomous system (Internet), a collection of IP networks and routers under the control of one entity
  • Autonomous system (mathematics), a system of ordinary differential equations which does not depend on the independent variable
  • Autonomous robot, robots which can perform desired tasks in unstructured environments without continuous human guidance

Famous quotes containing the words autonomous and/or system:

    “There is a totalitarian regime inside every one of us. We are ruled by a ruthless politburo which sets ours norms and drives us from one five-year plan to another. The autonomous individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.”
    —Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)

    “I candidly confess that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of States. The control which, with Florida, this island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico, and the countries and isthmus bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters flow into it, would fill up the measure of our political well-being.”
    —Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)