IFAC PapersOnLine 50-1 (2017) 5166–5171 ScienceDirect Available online at www.sciencedirect.com 2405-8963 © 2017, IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control) Hosting by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Peer review under responsibility of International Federation of Automatic Control. 10.1016/j.ifacol.2017.08.414 © 2017, IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control) Hosting by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Keywords: Terminological dictionary, Social impact of automation, Automatic control, Systems, Robotics. 1. INTRODUCTION The aim of this paper is to describe a new development: The Slovenian Terminological Dictionary of Automatic Control, Systems and Robotics with the English equiva- lents (Karba et al., 2014). This dictionary is expected to have a major social impact on the automatic control and engineering community and beyond in Slovenia. However, the model for its development can serve as an example to others who would like to follow the same course. Automatic control is present in the everyday lives of every citizen of Slovenia, and as such it has been taught in academia and other educational establishments since the early days. Automatic control, systems and robotics are, in the Slovenian language, Slovene, covered by a single term, i.e., “avtomatika”. This term actually has no exact English equivalent. The field of automatic control, systems and robotics was clearly distinguished from other fields of engineering when laboratories and departments devoted to this field were es- tablished at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Univer- ⋆ This project was supported by Automatic Control Society of Slovenia, University of Ljubljana and Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia. sity of Ljubljana in 1960s. Other research, pedagogical and industrial groups soon followed. The strongest present-day centres of automatic control education and research are at the universities in Ljubljana, Maribor, and Nova Gorica, as well as the Jozef Stefan Institute. We are also proud of our industrial-development groups working at various companies. Simultaneously with the technology, the terminology also evolved. The need for a unified terminology for control and robotics was recognised all over the world. Various dictionaries appeared that collected the terminology of the field. A large number of these dictionaries can be found in the English language, e.g., (Tver and Bolz, 1983), (Wald- man, 1985), (Rosenberg, 1986), (Dorf and Nof, 1990), (Bodestedt, 1993), (South, 1995), (Jones and Jones, 1996), (Dimon, 2002). Bilingual dictionaries, e.g., (Schorn and Große, 2010), (Siemens A&D Translation Services, 2011), (Siemens A&D Translation Services, 2009), as well as multilingual dictionaries, e.g., (Clason, 1977), (Broadbent and Masubuchi, 1981), (Zhelyazova, 2005), (Bajd et al., 2010), have also been published. These dictionaries do not usually receive a lot of citations in the scientific literature, as it is not customary to cite dictionaries. However, they are very useful to every control and robotics professional. Juˇ s Kocijan * Gorazd Karer ** Mojca ˇ Zagar Karer *** Tadej Bajd **** Rihard Karba † Abstract: The Slovenian Dictionary of Automatic Control, Systems and Robotics is described in this paper. The scope of the dictionary, the reason for developing the dictionary, the procedure of its development, the problems of classification and the complications that were encountered while preparing it for publication are described. The dictionary was developed because of its importance to the development of Slovene terminology in a field that is not only used by professionals, but also by educators when teaching new generations of engineers, and users of modern technology. A considerable social impact of such a project is conceived. Since terminology is a dynamic system, the mechanism for updating the dictionary is established. The procedure and result of this project might be used as a model for developing similar terminological dictionaries in other languages. * Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana and University of Nova Gorica, Nova Gorica (e-mail: jus.kocijan@ijs.si). ** University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Ljubljana (e-mail: gorazd.karer@fe.uni-lj.si). *** Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Fran Ramovˇ s Institute of the Slovenian Language, Ljubljana (e-mail: mojca.zagar@zrc-sazu.si). **** the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana (e-mail: tadej.bajd@robo.fe.uni-lj.si). † University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Ljubljana (e-mail: rihard.karba@fe.uni-lj.si). The Slovenian Dictionary of Automatic Control, Systems and Robotics ⋆