From grading and preparing harvested vegetables to the tactile probing of a patient's innermost recesses, mechatronics has become part of our way of life.
The dramatically increasing requirements of mobility through road-, rail- and airborne transport systems in the future necessitate non-evolutionary impro- ments of transportation systems.
This volume contains the papers presented at the 7th International Conference on Independent Component Analysis (ICA) and Source Separation held in L- don, 9-12 September 2007, at Queen Mary, University of London.
These proceedings continue the series edited in the framework of the traditional triennial International Conference on El- trical Bio-Impedance (ICEBI), the most important platform for presenting recent scientific achievements in the area of el- th nd trical bio-impedance.
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 11th RoboCup International Symposium, held in Atlanta, GA, USA, in July 2007, immediately after the 2007 RoboCupSoccer, RoboCupRescue and RoboCupJunior competitions.
"e;Nonequilibrium Carrier Dynamics in Semiconductors"e; is a well-established, specialist conference, held every 2 years, covering a range of topics of current interest to R&D in semiconductor physics/materials, optoelectronics, nanotechnology, quantum information processing.
The 5th International Conference on Field and Service Robotics (FSR05) was held in Port Douglas, Australia, on 29th - 31st July 2005, and brought together the worlds' leading experts in field and service automation.
This is a long-established international biennial conference series, organised in conjunction with the Royal Microscopical Society, Oxford, the Institute of Physics, London and the Materials Research Society, USA.
Looking back 10 years when the International Forum on Advanced Microsystems for Automotive Application (AMAA) started, enormous progress has been made in reducing casualties, emissions and in increasing comfort and performance.
ISRR, the "e;International Symposium on Robotics Research"e;, is one of robotics' pioneering symposia, which has established some of the field's most fundamental and lasting contributions over the past two decades.
Welcome to the proceedings of the Power-Aware Computer Systems (PACS 2004) workshop held in conjunction with the 37th Annual International Sym- sium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-37).
ThesearetheproceedingsoftheRoboCup2004Symposium,heldattheInstituto Superior T' ecnico, in Lisbon, Portugal in conjunction with the RoboCup c- petition.
This book contains the ceremonials and the proceedings pertaining to the Int- national Symposium CCN2005 on "e;Complex Computing-Networks: A Link between Brain-like and Wave-Oriented Electrodynamics Algorithms,"e; convened at Do ?
This volume contains a collection of papers presented at the 3rd Interna- tional Symposium on Autonomous Minirobots for Research and Edutainment (AMiRE 2005) that is held at Awara-Spa, Fukui, Japan, September 20-22, 2005.
Welcome to the proceedings of the 3rd Power-Aware Computer Systems (PACS 2003) Workshop held in conjunction with the 36th Annual International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-36).
Visual Information Systems on the Move Following the success of previous International Conferences of VISual Information Systems held in Melbourne, San Diego, Amsterdam, Lyon, Taiwan, Miami, and San Francisco, the 8th International Conference on VISual Information Systems held in Amsterdam dealt with a variety of aspects, from visual systems of multimedia information, to systems of visual information such as image databases.
The 3rd Workshop on Formal Approaches to Agent-Based Systems (FAABS-III) was held at the Greenbelt Marriott Hotel (near NASA Goddard Space Flight Center) in April 2004 in conjunction with the IEEE Computer Society.
The nineteenth biennial International Conference on Information Processing in Medical Imaging (IPMI) was held July 11-15, 2005 in Glenwood Springs, CO, USA on the Spring Valley campus of the Colorado Mountain College.
This book presents advances in control technologies for efficient operation of permeant magnet synchronous machines (PMSMs) and linear induction machines (LIMs) based on sliding mode control (SMC).
This book presents advances in control technologies for efficient operation of permeant magnet synchronous machines (PMSMs) and linear induction machines (LIMs) based on sliding mode control (SMC).
The text explains 2D materials, nanodevices, and analysis of their design parameters to meet the sub-nano-regime challenges for complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor devices.
The text explains 2D materials, nanodevices, and analysis of their design parameters to meet the sub-nano-regime challenges for complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor devices.
Whenever automation is introduced to control real-time activities or processes, the role of the human changes from being a manual controller to being a supervisory controller.
Human-Centered Design for Health Care Safety describes a conceptual framework (SEIPS or Systems Engineering Initiative for Patient Safety) based on the Human Factors and Ergonomics (HFE) discipline and associated human-centered design (HCD) approaches and methods that can help to create innovative solutions for enhancing health care safety.
