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:

    “Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations. Without internal peace, that is, peace among citizens and between the citizens and the state, there can be no guarantee of external peace.”
    —Václav Havel (b. 1936)

    “In a universe that is all gradations of matter, from gross to fine to finer, so that we end up with everything we are composed of in a lattice, a grid, a mesh, a mist, where particles or movements so small we cannot observe them are held in a strict and accurate web, that is nevertheless nonexistent to the eyes we use for ordinary living—in this system of fine and finer, where then is the substance of a thought?”
    —Doris Lessing (b. 1919)