Automatic control engineering

The primary aim of this book 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 of the SPAR series contains 39 scientific articles presented in the Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems conference organized in November 28-30, 2022, in Montbeliard, France.

The book provides theoretical and practical knowledge about swarm intelligence and evolutionary computation.

This book focuses on material culture as a subject of philosophical inquiry and promotes the philosophical study of material culture by articulating some of the central and difficult issues raised by this topic and providing innovative solutions to them, most notably an account of improvised action and a non-intentionalist account of function in material culture.

Multiple Valued Logic: Concepts and Representations begins with a survey of the use ofmultiple-valued logic in several modern application areas including electronic design automation algorithms and circuit design.

The global adoption of technology in education is transforming the way we teach and learn.

To tackle the challenges of the road estimation task, many works employ a fusion of multiple sources.

Robots, aerospace structures, active earthquake-damping devices of tall buildings, and active sound suppression are examples of the application of structural dynamics and control methods.

Compared to binary switching functions, the multiple-valued functions (MV) offer more compact representations of the information content of signals modeled by logic functions and, therefore, their use fits very well in the general settings of data compression attempts and approaches.

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 is a compilation of selected papers from the 12th International Workshop of Advanced Manufacturing and Automation (IWAMA 2022), held in Jimei University, Xiamen, China on 01 - 02 November, 2022.

An essential reading for students requiring an introduction to this exciting area at undergraduate and higher diploma level.

In this book, we study decision trees for fault diagnosis in circuits and switching networks, which are among the most fundamental models for computing Boolean functions.

This book is an update to the first edition of this book.

The text covers both basic and advanced techniques based on state performance systems and binary systems.

Recent developments in model-predictive control promise remarkable opportunities for designing multi-input, multi-output control systems and improving the control of single-input, single-output systems.

This book provides an illustration of the various methods and structures that are utilized in machine learning to make use of data that is generated by IoT devices.

This book introduces several observer-based methods, including:* the sliding-mode observer* the adaptive observer* the unknown-input observer and* the descriptor observer methodfor the problem of fault detection, isolation and estimation, allowing readers to compare and contrast the different approaches.

The book focuses on wind power generation systems.

While thin film technology has benefited greatly from artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) techniques, there is still much to be learned from a full-scale exploration of these technologies in atomic layer deposition (ALD).

This book focuses on the core technologies of special robots.

Dieses kompakte Handbuch deckt die verschiedenen Teilgebiete von Materialwirtschaft und Logistik über die gesamte Supply-Chain ab: von Beschaffung über Distribution, Produktion bis zum E-Commerce.

The book presents a remarkable collection of chapters covering a wide range of topics in the areas of intelligent systems and artificial intelligence, and their real-world applications.

This book presents Internet of Things (IoT) technology and security-related solutions that employ intelligent data processing technologies and machine learning (ML) approaches for data analytics.

This book presents the unique result of discussion among interdisciplinary specialists facing recent industrial and economic challenges.

This book addresses the reliability, risk, and safety issues of real industrial systems with application of the latest reliability and risk-based modeling.

This volume presents the theory of control systems with sliding mode applied to electrical motors and power converters.

To design and develop capable, dependable, and affordable intelligent systems, their performance must be measurable.

This book offers a comprehensive study concerning the reliability of renewable electricity production in the Faroe Islands.

This book discusses some of the innumerable ways in which computational methods can be used to facilitate research in biology and medicine - from storing enormous amounts of biological data to solving complex biological problems and enhancing treatment of various grave diseases.

This monograph represents the outcome of research effort of the authors on scalable synchronization of large-scale multi-agent systems (MAS).

This text is an enhanced, English version of the Russian edition, published in early 2021 and is appropriate for an introductory course in geometric control theory.

The spatial-temporal cooperative guidance problem for multiple flight vehicles has garnered significant attention in recent years due to its potential benefits in both military and civil fields.

New, significant scientific discoveries in laser and photonic technologies, systems perspectives, and integrated design approaches can improve even further the impact in critical areas of challenge.

In this book, Donald Rapp looks at human missions to Mars from a technological perspective.

While a quick response can save you in a time of crisis, avoiding a crisis remains the best defense.

Based on AI and machine learning, this book systematically presents the theories and methods for complex electro-mechanical system fault prognosis, intelligent diagnosis, and health state assessment in modern industry.

This book presents the theoretical research and application results of a study on flexible mechatronics (flexonics).

There has been a lot of innovation in systems engineering and some fundamental advances in the fields of optics, imaging, lasers, and photonics that warrant attention.

Fully updated with the latest developments in the eigenvalue Monte Carlo calculations and automatic variance reduction techniques and containing an entirely new chapter on fission matrix and alternative hybrid techniques.

This book deals with the simulation of the mechanical behavior of engineering structures, mechanisms and components.

This book explores how social robots and synthetic social agents will change our social systems and intersubjective relationships.

This proceedings volume highlights a selection of papers presented at the Sixth International Conference on High Performance Scientific Computing, which took place in Hanoi, Vietnam on March 16-20, 2015.

This book focuses on the latest applications of nonlinear approaches in engineering and addresses a range of scientific problems.

This brief describes the coordinated control of groups of robots using only sensory input - and no direct external commands.

Control Design Techniques in Power Electronics Devices deals specifically with control theories relevant to the design of switched power electronics, for the most part, DC-DC converters and supplies, rectifiers of different kinds and inverters with varying topologies.