Instruments and instrumentation

This book fills a gap in existing literature by providing a comprehensive academic perspective on industrial alarm systems, offering systematic methodologies, practical techniques, and visual analytic tools for engineers to improve system performance and design.

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.

With a focus on designing and verifying CMOS analog integrated circuits, the book reviews design techniques for mixed-signal building blocks, such as Nyquist and oversampling data converters, and circuits for signal generation, synthesis, and recovery.

This book explores the consumption and production aspects of the textile and garment industry, with a focus on the challenges and opportunities being faced by the industry.

The primary aim of this book is to provide an understanding of the sophisticated, modern characterisation techniques in the domain of civil engineering.

Estimating and Cost Planning Using the New Rules of Measurement The RICS New Rules of Measurement mean that the construction industry now has a way of allowing a more consistent approach to the measurement and estimating of buildings from the start of a project, right through until the end, and beyond.

This book explains the 3GPP technical specifications for the upcoming 5G Internet of Things (IoT) technology based on latest release which is Release 15.

This book deals with nonlinear dynamics of electronic circuits, which could be used in robot control, secure communications, sensors and synchronized networks.

Power systems are increasingly collecting large amounts of data due to the expansion of the Internet of Things into power grids.

The mission of the Engineering Laboratory of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is to promote U.

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.

This book is the first to present flow measurement as an independent branch of the measurement techniques, according to a new global and unitary approach for the measurement of fluid flow field, starting from finding its unitary fundamental bases.

Healthcare sensor networks (HSNs) now offer the possibility to continuously monitor human activity and physiological signals in a mobile environment.

Remote Sensing Technology in Forensic Investigations provides a basic understanding of concepts involved in the use of basic geophysical surveying, metal detectors, magnetics, electromagnetics and ground penetrating radar in police and forensic investigations.

The goal of the book is to provide basic and advanced knowledge of design, analysis, and circuit implementation for electronic instrumentation and clarify how to get the best out of the analog, digital, and computer circuitry design steps.

Written by the leading names in this field, this book introduces the technical properties, design and fabrication details, measurement results, and applications of three-dimensional silicon radiation sensors.

How Can We Lower the Power Consumption of Gas Sensors?

Discover cutting-edge techniques for next-generation integrated circuit design, and learn how to deliver improved speed, density, power, and cost.

Mit diesem Buch wird Neuland betreten: Es ist das erste Lehrbuch der Automatisierungstechnik, in dem kontinuierliche und ereignisdiskrete Systeme gleichberechtigt behandelt werden.

Airplane Performance on Grass Airfields presents an experiment-based approach to analysis and flight testing of airfield performance on grass runways.

Biological and Medical Sensor Technologies presents contributions from top experts who explore the development and implementation of sensors for various applications used in medicine and biology.

Human Activity and Behavior Analysis relates to the field of vision and sensor-based human action or activity and behavior analysis and recognition.

An engineering system contains multiple components that interconnect to perform a specific task.

Multifunctional Cement-Based Sensors for Intelligent Infrastructure: Design, Fabrication and Application covers the development and use of cement-based sensors for monitoring structural health, durability, and environmental conditions in concrete infrastructure.

This book presents a highly integrated, step-by-step approach to the design and construction of low-temperature measurement apparatus.

Dynamic Positioning for Engineers enables the reader to acquire the basic knowledge of the concepts and understanding of the dynamic positioning (DP) system from the systems perspective.

How Can We Lower the Power Consumption of Gas Sensors?

The book presents latest research-based innovations in the field of mechanical infrastructure presented in the International Conference on Recent Advances in Mechanical Infrastructure (ICRAM 2021).

Almost every industry that use liquids and gas in any form has a need to measure flow, temperature and pressure.

This book will give insight into emerging semiconductor devices from their applications in electronic circuits, which form the backbone of electronic equipment.

This book addresses advancement in nanomaterials to design and develop non-invasive healthcare sensors including a combination of hybrid nanocomposites to design non-invasive devices for diagnosing human diseases.

This introductory, yet in-depth, book explains the physical principles of electronic imaging and sensing and provides the reader with the information necessary to understand the design, operation, and practical applications of contemporary electronic imaging and sensing systems.

This book systematically introduces the two core technologies of hub motor and distributed drive control, and describes vehicle parameter estimation and dynamic modeling as the design basis of distributed drive control strategy based on the author's research results and engineering practice, starting from the introduction to distributed drive control of hub motor.

Presenting a mathematical basis for obtaining valid data, and basic concepts inmeasurement and instrumentation, this authoritative text is ideal for a one-semesterconcurrent or independent lecture/laboratory course.

This book reports on topics at the interface between manufacturing and materials engineering, with a special emphasis on smart and sustainable manufacturing.

This book reviews emerging nanomaterials in catalysis and sensors.

Offering perspective on both the scientific and engineering aspects of 2D semiconductors, Ultrathin Two-Dimensional Semiconductors for Novel Electronic Applications discusses how to successfully engineer 2D materials for practical applications.

The military, the research community, emergency services, and industrial environments all rely on ad hoc mobile wireless networks because of their simple infrastructure and minimal central administration.

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.

This ready reference surveys the discipline of standards and standardization, defining common terms, clarifying descriptions, describing how standards could be used to restrain trade, and explaining how international trade is stimulated by the due process provisions of standards writing organizations.

This book reports on innovative research and developments in automation.

The dominant medium for soliton propagation in electronics, nonlinear transmission line (NLTL) has found wide application as a testbed for nonlinear dynamics and KdV phenomena as well as for practical applications in ultra-sharp pulse/edge generation and novel nonlinear communication schemes in electronics.

An essential guide for developing and interpreting piping and instrumentation drawings Piping and Instrumentation Diagram Development is an important resource that offers the fundamental information needed for designers of process plants as well as a guide for other interested professionals.

This book presents research developments and novel methodologies on data-rate-constrained control and state estimation for complex networked systems with different kinds of encoding-decoding mechanisms.

This book covers the fundamental aspects and the application of electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS), with emphasis on a step-by-step procedure for mechanistic analysis of data.

Analysis and Application of Analog Electronic Circuits to Biomedical Instrumentation, Second Edition helps biomedical engineers understand the basic analog electronic circuits used for signal conditioning in biomedical instruments.

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.

High-speed, power-efficient analog integrated circuits can be used as standalone devices or to interface modern digital signal processors and micro-controllers in various applications, including multimedia, communication, instrumentation, and control systems.