Electronics and communications engineering

This textbook is a concise introduction to medical imaging aimed at physical scientists and engineers, including budding biomedical engineers and biophysicists.

Linear switched systems are a fascinating field of research, with many theoretical questions arising from applications which require sophisticated mathematical tools for their resolution.

This book reflects the latest research trends, methods and experimental results in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Transportation, which covers abundant state-of-the-art research theories and ideas.

Control of Robot Manipulators in Joint Space addresses robot control in depth, treating a range of model-based controllers in detail: proportional derivative; proportional integral derivative; computed torque and some adaptive variants.

Machine vision technology has revolutionised the process of automated inspection in manufacturing.

Although nonlinear control is traditionally an area of interest in process systems engineering which is of great practical importance, many process engineers have difficulty with the paradigms and results of modern nonlinear control theory because they lack the mathematical background usually associated with such methods or because of their computational difficulty and small-scale applicability in the general case.

Affirmative legislative action in many countries now requires that public spaces and services be made accessible to disabled people.

"e;A fascinating insight into potentially one of the most exciting developments that affects each and every one of us as we move forward into the 21st Century.

Multivariable Control Systems focuses on control design with continual references to the practical aspects of implementation.

This book presents the results of extensive research in computer-supported decision processes in engineering,carried out over many years by the author and his coll- orators.

Robust control mechanisms customarily require knowledge of the system's describing equations which may be of the high order differential type.

The Internet plays a significant and growing role in real-time industrial manufacturing, scheduling and management.

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

Active Braking Control Design for Road Vehicles focuses on two main brake system technologies: hydraulically-activated brakes with on-off dynamics and electromechanical brakes, tailored to brake-by-wire control.

Fractional-order Systems and Controls details the use of fractional calculus in the description and modeling of systems, and in a range of control design and practical applications.

Robot intelligence has become a major focus of intelligent robotics.

This book provides the most important steps and concerns in the design of estimation and control algorithms for induction motors.

Enterprise Interoperability is the ability of an enterprise or organisation to work with other enterprises or organisations without special effort.

Precision Nanometrology describes the new field of precision nanometrology, which plays an important part in nanoscale manufacturing of semiconductors, optical elements, precision parts and similar items.

Research on humanoid robots has been mostly with the aim of developing robots that can replace humans in the performance of certain tasks.

The automation of visual inspection is becoming more and more important in modern industry as a consistent, reliable means of judging the quality of raw materials and manufactured goods .

Designing Inclusive Interactions contains the proceedings of the fifth Cambridge Workshop on Universal Access and Assistive Technology (CWUAAT), incorporating the 8th Cambridge Workshop on Rehabilitation Robotics, held in Cambridge, England, in March 2010.

Linear, Time-varying Approximations to Nonlinear Dynamical Systems introduces a new technique for analysing and controlling nonlinear systems.

A guide on the use of SVMs in pattern classification, including a rigorous performance comparison of classifiers and regressors.

Robots able to imitate human beings have been at the core of stories of science?

Mechatronics in Action's case-study approach provides the most effective means of illustrating how mechatronics can make products and systems more flexible, more responsive and possess higher levels of functionality than would otherwise be possible.

Automotive control has developed over the decades from an auxiliary te- nology to a key element without which the actual performances, emission, safety and consumption targets could not be met.

Dry Clutch Control for Automated Manual Transmission Vehiclesanalyses the control of a part of the powertrain which has a key role in ride comfort during standing-start and gear-shifting manoeuvres.

Evolutionary algorithms are becoming increasingly attractive across various disciplines, such as operations research, computer science, industrial engineering, electrical engineering, social science and economics.

Nonlinear Control of Vehicles and Robots develops a unified approach to the dynamic modeling of robots in terrestrial, aerial and marine environments.

Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Networked Manufacturing Enterprises Management addresses prominent concepts and applications of AI technologies in the management of networked manufacturing enterprises.

Advanced Control and Supervision of Mineral Processing Plants describes the use of dynamic models of mineral processing equipment in the design of control, data reconciliation and soft-sensing schemes; through examples, it illustrates tools integrating simulation and control system design for comminuting circuits and flotation columns.

Speech Dereverberation gathers together an overview, a mathematical formulation of the problem and the state-of-the-art solutions for dereverberation.

A recent development in SDC-related problems is the establishment of intelligent SDC models and the intensive use of LMI-based convex optimization methods.

Network Science is the emerging field concerned with the study of large, realistic networks.

Presented here are 130 refereed papers given at the 36th MATADOR Conference held at The University of Manchester in July 2010.

Safe Adaptive Control gives a formal and complete algorithm for assuring the stability of a switched control system when at least one of the available candidate controllers is stabilizing.

Rapid developments in electronics over the past two decades have induced a move from purely mechanical vehicles to mechatronics design.

Block-oriented Nonlinear System Identification deals with an area of research that has been very active since the turn of the millennium.

This book focuses on the model and algorithm aspects of securing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Networks (UAV).

Modern computing engines-CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs-require extensive SRAM for cache designs, driven by the increasing demand for higher density, performance, and energy efficiency.

This book offers a systematic view of data services in heterogeneous wireless networks, from the perspectives of cause, governing rules, and impact of data's mobility on such networks.

Next-Generation Actuators Leading Breakthroughs is the proceedings of the final symposium of MEXT Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas: Next-Generation Actuators Leading Breakthroughs, held in January 2010.

Robot Motion Control 2009 presents very recent results in robot motion and control.

Optimal Linear Controller Design for Periodic Inputs proposes a general design methodology for linear controllers facing periodic inputs which applies to all feedforward control, estimated disturbance feedback control, repetitive control and feedback control.

Data compression is one of the most important fields and tools in modern computing.

"e;Programming Mobile Robots with Aria and Player"e; provides a guide to creating object-oriented C++ programs for robots using the Player and Aria APIs within a Linux environment.

"e;Real-time Systems' Quality of Service"e; examines the attainability of efficiency, economy, and ease of use, which make up the quality of service of technologically advanced products.

Lamb waves are guided waves that propagate in thin plate or shell structures.

In the process industries, stiction is the most common performance-limiting valve problem and over the last decade numerous different techniques for overcoming it have been proposed.