Automatic control engineering

This book emphasizes on the relevant methodologies that encompass modelling, design approaches, and control of mechatronic systems.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is undoubtedly playing an increasingly significant role in automobile technology.

This book focuses on the application of soft computing in materials and manufacturing sectors with the objective to offer an intelligent approach to improve the manufacturing process, material selection and characterization techniques for developing advanced new materials.

This book explores the growing focus on artificial intelligence (AI) systems in both industry and academia.

This book reports on innovative research and developments in automation.

The aim of this book is to highlight the most promising lines of research, using new enabling technologies and methods based on AI/ML techniques to solve issues and challenges related to intelligent and computing systems.

Public Policy Analytics: Code & Context for Data Science in Government teaches readers how to address complex public policy problems with data and analytics using reproducible methods in R.

Since the time our first book Fault Diagnosis in Dynamic Systems: The- ory and Applications was published in 1989 by Prentice Hall, there has been a surge in interest in research and applications into reliable methods for diag- nosing faults in complex systems.

Behavior Trees (BTs) provide a way to structure the behavior of an artificial agent such as a robot or a non-player character in a computer game.

HPC, Big Data, AI Convergence Towards Exascale provides an updated vision on the most advanced computing, storage, and interconnection technologies, that are at basis of convergence among the HPC, Cloud, Big Data, and artificial intelligence (AI) domains.

This book explores multivariate statistics from both traditional and modern perspectives.

This brief introduces game- and decision-theoretical techniques for the analysis and design of resilient interdependent networks.

Currently there is a gap between the research conducted in computer vision and robotics communities.

Algebraic Identification and Estimation Methods in Feedback Control Systems presents a model-based algebraic approach to online parameter and state estimation in uncertain dynamic feedback control systems.

The old cliche states that not every manager is a leader, but the more important part of that sentiment is that to be a good manager, one has to be a good leader.

This book applies generalized fractional differentiation techniques of Caputo, Canavati and Conformable types to a great variety of integral inequalities e.

Many aspects of phenomena critical to our lives can not be measured directly.

This book captures deploying Industry 4.

A fully updated, easy-to-read guide on magnetic actuators and sensors The Second Edition of this must-have book for today's engineers includes the latest updates and advances in the field of magnetic actuators and sensors.

Infinite-dimensional systems is a well established area of research with an ever increasing number of applications.

This book discusses the latest advances in manufacturing  and process control, with a special emphasis on digital manufacturing and intelligent technologies for manufacturing and industrial processes control.

This book surveys the state of the art in explainable and interpretable reinforcement learning (RL) as relevant for robotics.

This book provides the state-of-the-art intelligent methods and techniques for solving real-world problems along with a vision of the future research.

The effectiveness of federated learning in high performance information systems and informatics based solutions for addressing current information support requirements is demonstrated in this book.

Enterprise solutions have emerged as promising tools for integrating and extending business processes across business functions.

Handbook of Cluster Analysis provides a comprehensive and unified account of the main research developments in cluster analysis.

This book addresses the major challenges in realizing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in IoT-based Smart Cities.

Modelling Invasive Alien Plant Species: Fuzzy Based Uncertainty presents the application of different fuzzy set theory techniques in developing risk assessment models for invasive plant species- those whose introduction and spread outside their natural range threatens local biodiversity.

This book contains the selected papers from the 7th China Aeronautical Science and Technology Conference.

This book provides exclusive insight into the development of a new generation of robotic underwater technologies.

Metaheuristics for Resource Deployment under Uncertainty in Complex Systems analyzes how to set locations for the deployment of resources to incur the best performance at the lowest cost.

From the way we interact with our workspaces to the simple act of changing a duvet cover, the world around us is shaped by design, and not always for the better.

Experimental Vibration Analysis for Civil Structures: Testing, Sensing, Monitoring, and Control covers a wide range of topics in the areas of vibration testing, instrumentation, and analysis of civil engineering and critical infrastructure.

Public Policy Analytics: Code & Context for Data Science in Government teaches readers how to address complex public policy problems with data and analytics using reproducible methods in R.

This book draws inspiration from natural shepherding, whereby a farmer utilizes sheepdogs to herd sheep, to inspire a scalable and inherently human friendly approach to swarm control.

A robot's appearance and its way of interacting with humans is of fundamental importance.

This book is an essential guide to nonlinear dynamics and vibration control, detailing both the theory and the practical industrial applications within all aspects of engineering.

A microfluidic biochip is an engineered fluidic device that controls the flow of analytes, thereby enabling a variety of useful applications.

Contemporary engineering design is heavily based on computer simulations.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.