Automatic control engineering

This book provides basic knowledge of advanced microcontrollers associated with large systems and devices.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the recent advances in the domain of optimal guidance, exploring the characteristics of various optimal guidance algorithms and their pros and cons.

This book gathers authoritative contributions in the field of Soft Computing.

Explorations in Ethics is a collection of essays with a speculative bent.

Recent advances in wireless technology have led to the emergence of industry standards such as WirelessHART.

Dynamics of Coupled Structures, Volume 4:  Proceedings of the 38th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2020, the fourth volume of eight from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This book presents advanced control techniques that use neural networks to deal with grid disturbances in the context renewable energy sources, and to enhance low-voltage ride-through capacity, which is a vital in terms of ensuring that the integration of distributed energy resources into the electrical power network.

This book provides engineers and scientists in academia and industry with a thorough understanding of the underlying principles of nonlinear system identification.

This edited book designs the Cognitive Computing in Human Cognition to analyze to improve the efficiency of decision making by cognitive intelligence.

Is it possible to design robots and other machines that can reproduce and evolve?

The new frontiers of robotics research foresee future scenarios where artificial agents will leave the laboratory to progressively take part in the activities of our daily life.

This volume gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of robotics engineering, as presented by leading international researchers and engineers at the Latin American Symposium on Industrial and Robotic Systems (LASIRS), held in Tampico, Mexico on October-November 30-01 2019.

This book unites two fast-developing forms of control-vision-based control and fractional-order control-and applies them in mechatronic systems.

This book provides an insight on the importance that Internet of Vehicles (IoV) solutions can have in taking care of vehicular safety through internetworking and automation.

This book examines key issues in improving the efficiency of small and medium power boiler units by adding control systems for the fuel combustion process.

This book addresses the needs of researchers and practitioners in the field of high-speed trains, especially those whose work involves safety and reliability issues in traction systems.

This proceedings presents the papers of the 3rd EAI International Conference on Robotic Sensor Networks (ROSENET 2019).

This book is the fifth volume in the successful book series Robot Operating System: The Complete Reference.

This book describes an effective decision-making and planning architecture for enhancing the navigation capabilities of automated vehicles in the presence of non-detailed, open-source maps.

This textbook presents, in a mathematically precise manner, a unified introduction to deterministic control theory.

This volume gathers the latest fundamental research contributions, innovations, and applications in the field of design and analysis of complex robotic mechanical systems, machines, and mechanisms, as presented by leading international researchers at the 1st USCToMM Symposium on Mechanical Systems and Robotics (USCToMM MSR 2020), held in Rapid City, South Dakota, USA on May 14-16, 2020.

The book discusses the opportunities and challenges of managing knowledge in the new reality of Industry 4.

This book contains a derivation of the subset of stabilizing controllers for analog and digital linear time-invariant multivariable feedback control systems that insure stable system errors and stable controller outputs for persistent deterministic reference inputs that are trackable and for persistent deterministic disturbance inputs that are rejectable.

This brief presents an overview of Gregory Bateson's Constructivist method of Cognition.

This book gathers the outcomes of the thirteenth Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR), the premier event for showcasing cutting-edge research on algorithmic robotics.

This book documents the state of the art in the field of ambient assisted living (AAL), highlighting the impressive potential of novel methodologies and technologies to enhance well-being and promote active ageing.

This book presents an authoritative collection of contributions by researchers from 16 different countries (Austria, Chile, Georgia, Germany, Mexico, Norway, P.

This monograph presents a vision for haptic personalization tools and lays the foundations for achieving it.

This volume chronicles the 16th Annual Conference on System Engineering Research (CSER) held on May 8-9, 2018 at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.

Control of Wave and Beam PDEs is a concise, self-contained introduction to Riesz bases in Hilbert space and their applications to control systems described by partial differential equations (PDEs).

This book focuses on the fields of fuzzy logic and metaheuristic algorithms, particularly the harmony search algorithm and fuzzy control.

This book presents the outcomes of the 12th International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR 2016).

This volume presents the 17th International Conference on Information Technology-New Generations (ITNG), and chronicles an annual event on state of the art technologies for digital information and communications.

This book offers a detailed guide to the design and simulation of basic control methods applied to microgrids in various operating modes, using MATLAB(R) Simulink(R) software.

This book summarizes the application of linear algebra-based controllers (LABC) for trajectory tracking for practitioners and students across a range of engineering disciplines.

This textbook introduces senior undergraduate and beginning graduate students of mechanical engineering to the field of digital control with an emphasis on applications.

This book covers a wide range of topics related to human-robot interaction, both physical and cognitive, including theories, methodologies, technologies, and empirical and experimental studies.

This book unites two fast-developing forms of control-vision-based control and fractional-order control-and applies them in mechatronic systems.

This monograph applies the relative optimization approach to time nonhomogeneous continuous-time and continuous-state dynamic systems.

This book describes how robots can make sense of motion in their surroundings and use the patterns they observe to blend in better in dynamic environments shared with humans.

This book compares four parameters of problems in arbitrary information systems: complexity of problem representation and complexity of deterministic, nondeterministic, and strongly nondeterministic decision trees for problem solving.

This book provides methodologies for designing and implementing guidance algorithms for autonomous vehicles.

Computational Biomechanics for Medicine: Solid and fluid mechanics for the benefit of patients contributions and papers from the MICCAI Computational Biomechanics for Medicine Workshop help in conjunction with Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention conference (MICCAI 2019) in Shenzhen, China.

This Springer brief provides the necessary foundations to understand differential privacy and describes practical algorithms enforcing this concept for the publication of real-time statistics based on sensitive data.

This book presents the scientific outcomes of the International Conference AUTOMATION 2020, held on March 18-20, 2020 in Warsaw, Poland.

This book discusses biologically inspired robotic actuators designed to offer improved robot performance and approaching human-like efficiency and versatility.

This book offers the first systematic guide to machine ethics, bridging between computer science, social sciences and philosophy.

This book gathers the proceedings of the 2nd Latin American Congress on Automation and Robotics, held at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana de Cali, Colombia, on October 30th-November 1st, 2019.

This book introduces a comprehensive and mathematically rigorous controller design for families of nonlinear systems with time-varying parameters and unstructured uncertainties.

This book offers a new perspective and deeper understanding of complex socioeconomic systems, and explores the laws and mechanisms of erring by revealing the system structure, i.