Urban and municipal planning and policy

Theorizing the Southeast Asian City as Text examines the ways in which culture, ethnicity, languages, traditions, governance, policies and histories interplay in the creation of the urban experiences in contemporary Southeast Asian cities.

Flexible robotic manipulators pose various challenges in research as compared to rigid robotic manipulators, ranging from system design, structural optimization, and construction to modeling, sensing, and control.

The main goal of this book is to prove analytically and validate experimentally that synchronization in multi-composed mechanical systems can be achieved in the case of partial knowledge of the state vector of the systems, i.

This important book addresses issues of development and its environmental sustainability for the fastest growing areas in Asia - its cities.

This book deals with locomotion control of biologically inspired robots realized through an analog circuital paradigm as cellular nonlinear networks.

This invaluable book comprehensively describes evolutionary robotics and computational intelligence, and how different computational intelligence techniques are applied to robotic system design.

Robotics is an exciting field in engineering and natural sciences.

An important obstacle in Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) is the significant degradation of haptic feedback (sensation of touch) to the surgeon about surgical instrument's interaction with tissue.

This book covers the most attractive problem in robot control, dealing with the direct interaction between a robot and a dynamic environment, including the human-robot physical interaction.

This book provides state-of-the-art scientific and engineering research findings and developments in the area of mobile robotics and associated support technologies.

Telexistence is a fundamental concept which refers to the general technology that enables a human being to have a real-time sensation of being at a place other than where he or she actually exists, while being able to interact with the remote environment, which may be real, virtual, or a combination of both.

In this book, we look at how cluster technology can be leveraged to build better robots.

As China rises to become the world's largest economy, half a billion rural villagers are expected to become urban residents in the coming decades.

This book provides state-of-the-art scientific and engineering research findings and developments in the area of mobile robotics and associated support technologies.

The purpose of this volume is to treat the progress of history, civilization and urban development of China together in order to demonstrate the unique qualities of Chinese civilization.

Beijing Record, the result of ten years of research on the urban transformation of Beijing in the last fifty years, brings to an extended Western audience the inside story on the key decisions that led to Beijing's present urban fragmentation and its loss of memory and history in the form of bulldozing its architectural heritage.

With more and more of the world's population projected to live in urban areas, the life and death of cities has become a key factor in urban development considerations.

This book introduces an unified function approximation approach to the control of uncertain robot manipulators containing general uncertainties.

This book provides state-of-the-art scientific and engineering research findings and developments in the area of mobile robotics and associated support technologies.

Regulation of public infrastructure has been a topic of interest for more than a century.

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is a process where an autonomous vehicle builds a map of an unknown environment while concurrently generating an estimate for its location.

This book provides state of the art scientific and engineering research findings and developments in the area of mobile robotics and associated support technologies.

The world is facing an age of scarcity which will challenge all cities to reduce their resource footprint, especially carbon, improve biodiversity and at the same time continue to create economic opportunities and liveable places.

This unique volume aims to provide a first comprehensive assessment on attributes, conditions and characters which constitute a liveable city.

This book provides state-of-the-art scientific and engineering research findings and developments in the area of mobile robotics and associated support technologies.

The book explores how build a mechanical inferences by making use of arithmetic operations on a string of numbers representing statements.

Robots are becoming more human, but could they also become sentient and have human-like consciousness?

Biomimetic Robotic Artificial Muscles presents a comprehensive up-to-date overview of several types of electroactive materials with a view of using them as biomimetic artificial muscles.

This book is devoted to mechatronic, chemical, bacteriological, biological, and hybrid systems, utilizing cooperative, networked, swarm, self-organizing, evolutionary and bio-inspired design principles and targeting underwater, ground, air, and space applications.

Incomplete Urbanism is a dynamic, hybrid interactive concept, which destabilizes the current architectural and urban theories and practices.

This book explains, using the example of endovascular intervention, the development of in vitro simulators for biomedical applications based on the scientific context in the robotics area and the explanation of the medical procedure to be simulated.

Present-day computers lack well-defined functions to accept various kinds of sensual information such as vision, hearing, and smelling (binding problem).

This book provides new information to understand the relationship between urban development and environmental change to the reader.

The primary aim of this volume is to provide researchers and engineers from both academic and industry with up-to-date coverage of new results in the field of robotic welding, intelligent systems and automation.

This book discusses computer vision, a noncontact as well as a nondestructive technique involving the development of theoretical and algorithmic tools for automatic visual understanding and recognition which finds huge applications in agricultural productions.

This book is a collection of selected papers presented at the First Congress on Intelligent Systems (CIS 2020), held in New Delhi, India, during September 5-6, 2020.

This book is a compilation of peer-reviewed papers presented at the International Conference on Machine Intelligence and Data Science Applications, organized by the School of Computer Science, University of Petroleum & Energy Studies, Dehradun, on September 4 and 5, 2020.

Dr Cheong Koon Hean, CEO of the Housing and Development Board (2010-2020) was the Institute of Policy Studies' 5th S R Nathan Fellow for the Study of Singapore.

This invaluable compendium highlights the challenges of perioperative process in hospitals today.

The Encyclopedia of Medical Robotics combines contributions in four distinct areas of Medical robotics, namely: Minimally Invasive Surgical Robotics, Micro and Nano Robotics in Medicine, Image-guided Surgical Procedures and Interventions, and Rehabilitation Robotics.

This book provides state-of-the-art scientific and engineering research findings and developments in the area of service robotics and associated support technologies around the theme of human-centric robotics.

Countries, cities, and companies are investing in smart cities and digital economies.

The Divided City contributes to the growing body of scholarly work on cities of the global South.

2016 International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Automation (EEA2016) was held in Hong Kong, China from June 24th-26th, 2016.

The 2016 International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation Engineering (ICMAE2016) have been successfully held in Xiamen, China, on April 22nd - 24th.

The 3rd Annual International Conference on Design, Manufacturing and Mechatronics (ICDMM2016) was successfully held in Wuhan, China in 2016.

Earth's environmental problems are far from being resolved.

This comprehensive reference text is a collection of important research findings on the latest developments in network modeling for optimization of smart cities.

This book provides state-of-the-art scientific and engineering research findings and developments in the area of mobile robotics and associated support technologies around the theme of cooperative robotics.