Electronics engineering

by Professor Poul Harremoes Environmental engineering has been a discipline dominated by empirical approaches to engineering.

Modern information systems must handle huge amounts of data having varied natural or technological origins.

Consisting of selected technical contributions to the European Project COST252 (Evolution of Satellite Personal Communications from 2nd to Future Generation Systems) this volume provides many innovative results which can be the basis for new global (mobile /terrestrial/satellite) telecommunications systems providing multimedia services at high rates.

Soft computing embraces various methodologies for the development of intelligent systems that have been successfully applied to a large number of real-world problems.

In the increasingly competitive modern world, the industrial sector faces new challenges such as improving productivity and reducing costs while taking into account the process operational constraints.

Much has been written about the general difficulty of developing the models required for model-based control of processes whose dynamics exhibit signif- icant nonlinearity (for further discussion and references, see Chapter 1).

Hydraulic Servo-systems details the basic concepts of many recent developments of nonlinear identification and nonlinear control and their application to hydraulic servo-systems: developments such as feedback linearisation and fuzzy control.

Although the computing demands of real-time signal processing and control applications are increasing rapidly, parallel processors permit several instructions to be dealt with simultaneously so that the "e;real-time"e; needed is manageable.

Discrete-time Stochastic Systems gives a comprehensive introduction to the estimation and control of dynamic stochastic systems and provides complete derivations of key results such as the basic relations for Wiener filtering.

The series Advances in Industrial Control aims to report and encourage of control technology transfer in control engineering.

Relay feedback has attracted considerable research attention for more than a century but there has been no recent summary of the many newly-developed tools and results now available for this important area as a whole, those that have been published tending to focus on one process or controller type only.

This book is written for students at bachelor and master programs and has four different purposes, which split the book into four parts: 1.

A typical method of dealing with input and output constraints, especially for PID control, has been the empirical design and implementation of an intuitive solution to an individual plant and its constraints.

Mobile Robotics: A Practical Introduction (2nd edition) is an excellent introduction to the foundations and methods used for designing completely autonomous mobile robots.

Plant control systems are subject to the undesirable influence of exogenous commands and disturbances.

Inclusive Design: What's in It for Me?

Asynchronous System-on-Chip Interconnect describes the use of an entirely asynchronous system-bus for the modular construction of integrated circuits.

This book covers a number of models and control types.

An exposition of the interplay between the modelling of dynamic systems and the design of feedback controllers based on these models is the main goal of this book.

In the last decade a dynamic development in positive systems has been observed.

New results, fresh ideas and new applications in automotive and flight control systems are presented in this second edition of Robust Control.

In the 50 years since the invention of transistor, silicon integrated circuit (IC) technology has made astonishing advances.

Product Integrity and Reliability in Design is intended to serve either as a text for graduate students or as a reference for practicing engineers.

In the usual process of control system design, the assumption is made that the controller is implemented exactly.

Modern methods of filter design and controller design often yield systems of very high order, posing a problem for their implementation.

In the last decade new artificial intelligence methods for the modelling and control of complex systems, namely neural networks, fuzzy logic and probabilistic reasoning have drawn the interest of researchers and engineers.

This book provides a thorough overview of cutting-edge research on electronics applications relevant to industry, the environment, and society at large.

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As our world becomes increasingly digital, electronics underpin nearly every industry.

This book provides students and professionals, including pulsed power designers, with a complete overview of advanced semiconductor devices that can improve the performance of pulsed power systems.