#autonomous systems

• To self-direct — To guide or orient one's own actions, behavior, learning process, or movement within a given space, without intervention, control, or coordination from an external authority or a human operator.
• Self-direction — The act of self-directing and its result; the process through which an individual assumes full control over their own education and development, or the technical property of a vehicle or projectile to autonomously correct its trajectory toward a target.