Instruments and instrumentation

Over the last twenty years there has been tremendous growth in the research and development of sensors and sensor signal processing methods.

Surface Guided Radiation Therapy provides a comprehensive overview of optical surface image guidance systems for radiation therapy.

In this book, we aim to give a thorough introduction to machine dynamics.

The Second Edition of the bestselling Measurement, Instrumentation, and Sensors Handbook brings together all aspects of the design and implementation of measurement, instrumentation, and sensors.

As one of the pioneers of "e;Piezoelectric Actuators"e;, I have contributed to the commercialization of various products for over 45 years, including million-selling devices, micro-ultrasonic motors for smart-phone camera modules by Samsung Electromechanics, piezoelectric transformers for backlight inverters by Apple laptops, multilayer PZT actuators for diesel injection valves by Denso Corporation, and piezoelectric energy harvesting modules for Programable Air-Burst Munition by the US Army.

This book primarily focuses on nanomaterial synthesis, properties, sensor fabrication, and their uses for disease diagnosis and therapy.

This book primarily focuses on nanomaterial synthesis, properties, sensor fabrication, and their uses for disease diagnosis and therapy.

Measurement and Instrumentation: Theory and Application, Second Edition, introduces undergraduate engineering students to measurement principles and the range of sensors and instruments used for measuring physical variables.

With the rapid proliferation of information and communications technology, industrial automation has undergone a sweeping transformation toward intelligent manufacturing.

Experimental stress analysis is an important tool in the overall design and development of machinery and structures.

This book reviews the advances in data gathering and processing in the biotech laboratory environment, and it sheds new lights on the various aspects that are necessary for the implementation of intelligent laboratory architecture and infrastructure.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Business Information Systems, BIS 2025, which took place in Poznan, Poland, during June 25-27, 2025.

Choice Recommended Title, July 2020Bringing together material scattered across many disciplines, Semiconductor Radiation Detectors provides readers with a consolidated source of information on the properties of a wide range of semiconductors; their growth, characterization and the fabrication of radiation sensors with emphasis on the X- and gamma-ray regimes.

This new volume covers the fusion of IoT and wireless communication technology for real-life applications.

This book elaborates fuzzy machine and deep learning models for single class mapping from multi-sensor, multi-temporal remote sensing images while handling mixed pixels and noise.

Photonic sensors are the most promising and rapidly advancing areas of photonics today, with applications in healthcare, environmental monitoring, and industrial applications.

This book focuses on the basic electrochemical applications of DNA in various areas, from basic principles to the most recent discoveries.

Carbon nanomaterials can transfer their excellent electrical conductivity to polymers while enhancing or maintaining their original mechanical properties.

Sensor devices that are flexible and printable have received a lot of interest in recent years.

Geotechnical instrumentation is used for installation, monitoring and assessment on any sizeable project, particularly in urban areas, and is used for recording, controlled remedial work, and safety.

This book provides select proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Applied Mechanics and Mechanical Engineering (ICAMME 2022).

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.

Fresh?

Biosensors are poised to make a large impact in environmental, food, and biomedical applications, as they clearly offer advantages over standard analytical methods, including minimal sample preparation and handling, real-time detection, rapid detection of analytes, and the ability to be used by non-skilled personnel.

Engineering Dimensions, Units, and Conversions delves into the analysis and application of the dimensions, units, and unit conversions in engineering practical use.

Updated in line with the 18th edition of the wiring regulations.

There has never been available a compilation of information on steel estimating such as this one in the entire history of steel fabrication.

This book reviews emerging nanomaterials in catalysis and sensors.

Written by a leading scientist with over 35 years of experience working at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Solar Radiation: Practical Modeling for Renewable Energy Applications brings together the most widely used, easily implemented concepts and models for estimating broadband and spectral solar radiation data.

Photonic Instrumentation: Sensing and Measuring with Lasers is designed as a source for university-level courses covering the essentials of laser-based instrumentation, and as a useful reference for working engineers.

Small satellites use commercial off-the-shelf sensors and actuators for attitude determination and control (ADC) to reduce the cost.

This book presents the progress, changes, and evolvement for apple mechanical harvest during the past decades, which include, but not limited to, bulky harvest method, harvest platform, apple infield sorting, and harvest robotics.

This book presents the select proceedings of the Second International Conference on Advances in Mechanical Engineering and Material Science (ICAMEMS 2023).

This book presents the basic principles of optical sensor technology in line with the tremendous development in the concept of optical fibers.

This book comprises the proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Future Technologies in Manufacturing, Automation, Design and Energy 2021.

This book presents tuning rules for PI and PID controllers for processes with time delay.

The book aims at empowering readers with a clear understanding of multi-stage mechanism, different microactuators' performances, their limitations to control system performance and problems encountered in control system design and techniques for solving these problems and dealing with these limitations.

This book presents in-depth coverage of magnetic sensors in industrial applications.

Because of unique water properties, humidity affects materials and many living organisms, including humans.

Introduction to PCM Telemetering Systems, Third Edition summarizes the techniques and terminology used in sending data and control information between users and the instruments that collect and process the data.

Energy Harvesting Autonomous Sensor Systems: Design, Analysis, and Practical Implementation provides a wide range of coverage of various energy harvesting techniques to enable the development of a truly self-autonomous and sustainable energy harvesting wireless sensor network (EH-WSN).

Vacuum plays an important role in science and technology.

The reference text comprehensively discusses micro-electromechanical systems and nanoelectromechanical systems-based design of smart sensors, fabrication techniques for smart sensors, and smart wearable stress monitoring devices for autistic children.

No production is perfect.

Over the last twenty years there has been tremendous growth in the research and development of sensors and sensor signal processing methods.

This book covers the key elements of physical systems modeling, sensors and actuators, signals and systems, computers and logic systems, and software and data acquisition.

This book reports on innovations and engineering achievements of industrial relevance, with a special emphasis on developments in mechatronics, control engineering and signal processing.

Now that modern machinery and electromechanical devices are typically being controlled using analog and digital electronics and computers, the technologies of mechanical engineering in such a system can no longer be isolated from those of electronic and computer engineering.

This book introduces intelligent manufacturing system planning, design, and implementation, through the deep integration of the Internet, big data, artificial intelligence, and manufacturing process, to promote the transformation and upgrading of enterprises.