Transport technology and trades

This book presents the result of an innovative challenge, to create a systematic literature overview driven by machine-generated content.

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This book compiles cutting-edge research and innovative practices in the field of naval architecture and marine engineering, presented during the IV Iberoamerican Congress of Naval Engineering and 27th Pan-American Congress of Naval Engineering, Maritime Transportation and Port Engineering (COPINAVAL).

This book features the latest theoretical results and techniques in the field of guidance, navigation, and control (GNC) of vehicles and aircrafts.

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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.

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.

Reliability and safety are core issues that must be addressed throughout the life cycle of engineering systems.

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.

Complex System Reliability presents a state-of-the-art treatment of complex multi-channel system reliability assessment and provides the requisite tools, techniques and algorithms required for designing, evaluating and optimizing ultra-reliable redundant systems.

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

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

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.

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.

It is a well acknowledged fact that virtually all of our modern-day components and assemblies rely to some extent on machining operations in their manufacturing process.

"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.