Automotive technology and trades

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.

Global Perspective for Competitive Enterprise, Economy and Ecology addresses the general theme of the Concurrent Engineering (CE) 2009 Conference - the need for global advancements in the areas of competitive enterprise, economy and ecology.

The seriesAdvancesinIndustrialControl aims to report and encourage te- nologytransfer in controlengineering.

"e;Recent Advances in Intelligent Control Systems"e; gathers contributions from workers around the world and presents them in four categories according to the style of control employed: fuzzy control; neural control; fuzzy neural control; and intelligent control.

first industrial application of MPC was in 1973.

Traditionally, the study of internal combustion engines operation has focused on the steady-state performance.

"e;Biofuels for Road Transport: A Seed to Wheel Perspective"e; provides a review of the history, the current status and perspectives for biofuels used in road transport, across the full 'seed-to-wheel' life cycle of these fuels.

Discontinuous Systems develops nonsmooth stability analysis and discontinuous control synthesis based on novel modeling of discontinuous dynamic systems, operating under uncertain conditions.

"e;Collaborative Product and Service Life Cycle Management for a Sustainable World"e; gathers together papers from the 15th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering (CE2008), to stimulate the new thinking that is so crucial to our sustained productivity enhancement and quality of life.

Nonlinear and Adaptive Control with Applications provides a detailed treatment of the design of robust adaptive controllers for nonlinear systems with uncertainties.

Information consensus guarantees that robot vehicles sharing information over a network topology have a consistent view of information critical to the coordination task.

Semi-active Suspension Control provides an overview of vehicle ride control employing smart semi-active damping systems.

Over the past 100 years the European Automotive Industry has been repeatedly challenged by best practice.

"e;Recent Advances in Reliability and Quality in Design"e; presents the latest theories and methods of reliability and quality, with emphasis on reliability and quality in design and modelling.

Control of Traffic Systems in Buildings, focusing on elevator groups, presents the state of the art in their analysis and control.

As modern structures require more critical and complex designs, the need for accurate ways to assess uncertainties in loads, geometry, material properties, manufacturing processes and operational environments has increased.

The application of machine vision to autonomous vehicles is an increasingly important area of research with exciting applications in industry, defense, and transportation likely in coming decades.

The purpose of this book is to present a self-contained description of the fun- damentals of the theory of nonlinear control systems, with special emphasis on the differential geometric approach.

While conceptually elegant, the generic formulations of nonlinear model predictive control are not ready to use for the stabilization of fast systems.

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

Each year billions of dollars are being spent to develop, manufacture, and operate transportation systems such as aircraft, ships, trains, and motor vehicles throughout the world.

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Engineers and scientists often need to sell an innovative idea for a new product or a new product improvement to top management.

"e;Robot Motion Control 2007"e; presents very recent results in robot motion and control.

Concurrent engineering is well-established as an approach to engineer product parts.

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

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

Manufacturing systems and processes are becoming more complex, so more rational decision-making in process control is a necessity.

Engineering litigation is rarely about who is right or who has been wronged.

Computational Mechanics of Composite Materials lays stress on the advantages of combining theoretical advancements in applied mathematics and mechanics with the probabilistic approach to experimental data in meeting the practical needs of engineers.

Fuel cells are electrochemical devices that convert the energy of a fuel (such as hydrogen, natural gas or other hydrocarbon-based fuels) directly into electricity.

When people think of NASCAR, many think of cars racing around a track.

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Since the moment that young men began modifying and personalizing their automobiles back in the 1940s and 50s, Big Daddy Don Garlits was squarely in the thick of this intoxicating pursuit.

The Race: Inside the Indy 500 examines in words and pictures this highly evolved auto-racing spectacle, which is hosting the 100th running in 2016.

Shirley Muldowney not only broke the gender barrier in the National Hot Rod Association in the 1970s, but she also completely rewrote the record books in Top Fuel Eliminator, drag racings quickest and fastest category.

Whats it like to race across the blacktop of the nations most famous track?

In Flat Out and Half Turned Over, driving phenomenon Buddy Baker details the most hilarious collection of racing stories, memories, and anecdotes ever published.

Donnie Allison was always the other brother of the famous NASCAR racing duo.

Dale Earnhardt Jr.

This book provides a comprehensive and innovative exploration of low-temperature AC heating techniques for lithium-ion batteries, addressing a critical challenge in electric vehicle (EV) performance.

Why do engineers need to know about materials?

This SpringerBrief deals with the control and optimization problem in hybrid electric vehicles.

With a focus on ecology, economy and engine performance, diesel engines are explored in relation to current research and developments.

Although they may look like simple components, the motorbike fork plays a critical role in the overall dynamic behaviour of motorcycles.

Optimal Control of Hybrid Vehicles provides a description of power train control for hybrid vehicles.

Process Control for Sheet-Metal Stamping presents a comprehensive and structured approach to the design and implementation of controllers for the sheet metal stamping process.

Reliability and safetyare core issues that must be addressed throughout the life cycle of engineeringsystems.

Finite-time stability (FTS) is a more practical concept than classical Lyapunov stability, useful for checking whether the state trajectories of a system remain within pre-specified bounds over a finite time interval.