Automatic control engineering

This book contains the latest material in the subject, covering next generation sequencing (NGS) applications and meeting the requirements of a complete semester course.

Contemporary engineering design is heavily based on computer simulations.

This monograph presents recent advances in differential flatness theory and analyzes its use for nonlinear control and estimation.

This comprehensive introduction to ultraprecision machining and metrology provides an essential foundation for students and engineers, offering an in-depth analysis of key methods, technologies, and practical applications.

This volume gathers the peer reviewed papers which were presented at the 5th edition of the International Workshop "e;Service Orientation in Holonic and Multi-agent Man-ufacturing - SOHOMA'15"e; organized in November 5-6, 2015 by the Institute for Manufacturing (IfM) of the University of Cambridge, UK in collaboration with the CIMR Research Centre in Computer Integrated Manufacturing and Robotics of the University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania, the LAMIH Laboratory of Industrial and Human Automation Control, Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science of the University of Valenciennes and Hainaut-Cambresis, France and the CRAN Re-search Centre for Automatic Control, Nancy of the University of Lorraine, France.

This book focuses on the integration of intelligent communication systems, control systems and devices related to all aspects of engineering and sciences.

This book aims to teach the core concepts that make Self-driving vehicles (SDVs) possible.

This book aims to develop systematic design methodologies to model-based nonlinear control of aeroengines, focusing on (1) modelling of aeroengine systems-both component-level and identification-based models will be extensively studied and compared; and (2) advanced nonlinear control designs-set-point control, transient control and limit-protection control approaches will all be investigated.

This book is a comprehensive guide that explores the latest developments in anomaly detection techniques across a range of fields, including cybersecurity, finance, image processing, sensor networks, social network analysis, health systems, and IoT systems.

Today, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is being implemented at a fast pace in almost every area of our lives.

The main focus of this book is the examination of women's health issues and the role machine learning can play as a solution to these challenges.

As more and more engineering departments and companies choose to use Python, this book provides an essential introduction to this open-source, free-to-use language.

This book compiles recent developments on sliding mode control theory and its applications.

This book contains all refereed papers accepted during the fourth asia-pacific edition & twelve edition - which were merged this year - of the CSD&M conference that took place in Beijing, People's Republic of China by 2021.

A culmination of the authors' years of extensive research on this topic, Relational Data Clustering: Models, Algorithms, and Applications addresses the fundamentals and applications of relational data clustering.

This book is designed to help transportation professionals and construction experts to develop and implement successful smart systems, leveraging the current trends, equipment, and advanced technologies to drive the green transportation system development.

The book contains selected research papers presented at the 2nd International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems and Control (CPS&C'2021) which was held from 29 June to 2 July 2021 in St.

Volume 1 of Computational Approaches in Bioengineering-Computational Approaches in Biotechnology and Bioinformatics-explores many significant topics of biomedical engineering and bioinformatics in an easily understandable format.

This book presents the most recent advances in the research and applications of reconfigurable mechanisms and robots.

Mobile robots have been increasingly applied in many different scenarios, such as space exploration and search and rescue, where the robots are required to travel over uneven terrain while outdoors.

DARS is now a well-established conference that gathers every two years the main researchers in Distributed Robotics systems.

This book explains how AI and Machine Learning can be applied to help businesses solve problems, support critical thinking and ultimately create customer value and increase profit.

The book addresses the system performance with a focus on the network-enhanced complexities and developing the engineering-oriented design framework of controllers and filters with potential applications in system sciences, control engineering and signal processing areas.

This book focuses on the design and analysis of collective decision-making strategies for the best-of-n problem.

Work is all around us and permeates everything we do and everyday activities.

This book addresses a key technology for digital information processing: Kalman filtering, which is generally considered to be one of the greatest discoveries of the 20th century.

This textbook provides introductory concepts of the Internet of Things (IoT) in a concise and clear format.

The 2005 Virtual International Conference on IPROMS took place on the Internet between 4 and 15 July 2005.

Practical Optimization: Algorithms and Engineering Applications provides a hands-on treatment of the subject of optimization.

Up to date with the third edition of PMI's Standard for Program Management, this is the most comprehensive resource available to help prepare readers for the PgMP Exam.

This monograph by Florian Rohrbein, Germano Veiga and Ciro Natale is an edited collection of 15 authoritative contributions in the area of robot technology transfer between academia and industry.

The book focuses on the transient modelling, stability analysis and control of power electronic systems, since these systems face severe safe operation problems the during transient period.

This book describes new energy saving methods and technologies for heat power engineering.

This book provides a basic understanding of adaptive control and its applications in Flight control.

This book focuses on the control and state estimation problems for dynamical network systems with complex samplings subject to various network-induced phenomena.

There is a need to categorize artificial intelligence (AI) applications, tools, techniques, and algorithms based on their intended use in various design stages.

This dictionary contains terms from the fields of automatic control, which includes mathematical modelling, simulation of dynamic systems, automation technology with its corresponding elements, and robotics.

This book presents the state of the art in designing high-performance algorithms that combine simulation and optimization in order to solve complex optimization problems in science and industry, problems that involve time-consuming simulations and expensive multi-objective function evaluations.

Introducing multibody dynamics with an emphasis on flexible body dynamics, this edition features an additional chapter with explanations for the fundamental issues addressed.

This book includes original, peer-reviewed research papers from the 4th ICAUS 2024, which provides a unique and engaging platform for scientists, engineers and practitioners from all over the world to present and share their most recent research results and innovative ideas.

Artificial Intelligence has already pervaded our lives in so many subtle ways, but how will humans react to the creation of a completely sentient super computer: a hyper-intelligent brain without a body who is as omniscient and omnipresent as the internet itself?

With businesses becoming ever more competitive, marketing strategies need to be more precise and performance oriented.

This book covers a new paradigm of system modeling - the robust control-oriented linear fractional transformation (LFT) modeling.

*         Provides an overall understanding of all aspects of AC electrical drives, from the motor and converter to the implemented control algorithm, with minimum mathematics needed*         Demonstrates how to implement and debug electrical drive systems using a set of dedicated hardware platforms, motor setup and software tools in VisSim(TM) and PLECS(TM)*         No expert programming skills required, allowing the reader to concentrate on drive development*         Enables the reader to undertake real-time control of a safe (low voltage) and low cost experimental drive This book puts the fundamental and advanced concepts behind electric drives into practice.

This book shows, on numerous examples, how to make decisions in realistic situations when we have both uncertainty and constraints.

Saturated Switching Systems treats the problem of actuator saturation, inherent in all dynamical systems by using two approaches: positive invariance in which the controller is designed to work within a region of non-saturating linear behaviour; and saturation technique which allows saturation but guarantees asymptotic stability.

The Internet has gone from an Internet of people to an Internet of Things (IoT).

This monograph provides an in-depth treatment of the class of linear-dynamical quantum systems.

Machines that are smarter than people?

This book is a reference on digital technology and its impact on sustainability, providing insight into sustainable practices globally.