The proceedings provide state-of-the-art scientific and engineering research findings and developments in the area of mobile robotics and assistive technologies.
Multichip Module (MCM) technology has been used in high-end systems, such as mainframe and supercomputers as well as military and space applications for some time.
This book presents an extensive survey of the state-of-the-art research in parallel computational algorithms and architectures for robot manipulator control and simulation.
Written by an electrical engineer this book presents a novel approach in electric circuit theory which is based on interval analysis - an intensively developing branch or applied mathematics.
This text features a broad array of research efforts in computer vision including low level processing, perceptual organization, object recognition and active vision.
In recent years works done by most researchers towards building autonomous intelligent controllers frequently mention the need for a methodology of design and a measure of how successful the final result is.
Today's electronics industry requires new design automation methodologies that allow designers to incorporate high performance integrated circuits into smaller packaging.
In many respects, compound semiconductor technology has reached the age of maturity when applications will have been defined, yields are high enough and well established, and gallium arsenide and related compounds have carved many important niches in electronics.
Modern Semiconductor Quantum Physics has the following constituents: (1) energy band theory: pseudopotential method (empirical and ab initio); density functional theory; quasi-particles; LCAO method; k.
This book is concerned with compound semiconductor bulk materials and has been written for students, researchers and engineers in material science and device fabrication.
Solid state power sources have developed remarkably in the last three decades owing to improvements in technology and a greater understanding of the underlying basic sciences.
This book discusses the theory of the electron states of transition metal impurities in semiconductors in connection with the general theory of isoelectronic impurities.
This book describes advanced epitaxial growth and self-aligned processing techniques for the fabrication of III-V semiconductor devices such as heterojunction bipolar transistors and high electron mobility transistors.
This book covers the various material properties of bulk GaAs and related materials, and aspects of the physics of artificial semiconductor microstructures, such as quantum wells and superlattices, made of these materials.
This book describes non-conventional methods of control of human extremities, emphasizing the fact that conventional approaches used in robotics are limited when used in humans for restoration of reaching and grasping (goal-oriented movements), and standing and locomotion (cyclic movements).
This new book by M Levinshtein and G Simin tells the readers about the design and work of the most important and most interesting semiconductor devices - the transistors.
This book discusses some of the most important emerging optoelectronic technologies foreseen to have major technical and business impact in the future.
This volume covers friction-induced vibration, the influence of actuator-bearing grease composition, wear measurements for proximity recording heads, characteristics of a suspension assembly, design and analysis of the HDD Servo System, reluctance torque reduction, etc.
Obstacle Avoidance in Multi-robot Systems: Experiments in Parallel Genetic Algorithms offers a novel framework for solving the path planning problem for robot manipulators.
Recently, there has been considerable research interest in neural network control of robots, and satisfactory results have been obtained in solving some of the special issues associated with the problems of robot control in an "e;on-and-off"e; fashion.
