Landscape architecture and design

Just as there is love at first sight between people, Vclav Clek writes, there can be love at first sight between a person and a place.

Summers at the Vauxhall pleasure garden in London brought diverse entertainments to a diverse public.

The work of landscape architecture firm Hargreaves Associates is globally renowned, from the 21st Century Waterfront in Chattanooga, Tennessee, to London's 2012 Olympic Park.

Paula Deitz has delighted readers for more than thirty years with her vivid descriptions of both famous and hidden landscapes.

Rugged Embedded Systems: Computing in Harsh Environments describes how to design reliable embedded systems for harsh environments, including architectural approaches, cross-stack hardware/software techniques, and emerging challenges and opportunities.

This book describes the signal, image and video processing methods and techniques for fire detection and provides a thorough and practical overview of this important subject, as a number of new methods are emerging.

Advanced Theory of Constraint and Motion Analysis for Robot Mechanisms provides a complete analytical approach to the invention of new robot mechanisms and the analysis of existing designs based on a unified mathematical description of the kinematic and geometric constraints of mechanisms.

Introduction to Mobile Robot Control provides a complete and concise study of modeling, control, and navigation methods for wheeled non-holonomic and omnidirectional mobile robots and manipulators.

Based on the author's wide-ranging experience as a robot user, supplier and consultant, Implementation of Robot Systems will enable you to approach the use of robots in your plant or facility armed with the right knowledge base and awareness of critical factors to take into account.

Global Sustainable Communities Handbook is a guide for understanding and complying with the various international codes, methods, and legal hurtles surrounding the creation of sustainable communities all over the world.

The Intelligent Systems Series encompasses theoretical studies, design methods, and real-world implementations and applications.

This book aims to provide a cross-sectorial assessment in a multidisciplinary and trans-cultural context onto the innovations in urban and architectural approaches in designing next human environments within the Albanian context.

This book aims to discuss the technical and ethical challenges posed by the present technological framework and to highlight the fundamental role played by human-centred design and human factors in the definition of robotic architectures for human-robot collaboration.

This book highlights current concepts of Social Urbanism, the contemporary set of multiple and interdisciplinary urban studies that have emerged mainly from the complex realities of Latin American cities.

This unique volume presents the practical tools for architects and urban designers to improve the work processes of architectural designa "e;from conception to construction, taking into consideration the personalized world of users, architects, and urban designers.

This unique volume presents the practical tools for architects and urban designers to improve the work processes of architectural designa "e;from conception to construction, taking into consideration the personalized world of users, architects, and urban designers.

Landscape Urbanism and New Urbanism - negotiating the relationship between cities and the natural world In contemporary Western society, urban development is regarded as an unfortunate blight from which nature provides a much-needed respite.

This book traces the history of urban design in tropical South East Asia with a view to offering solutions to contemporary architectural and urban problems.

Horticulture has remained far behind in understanding of botanical principles.

This book provides an empirical analysis of the concept of play as a form of spatial practice in urban public spaces.

This book provides an empirical analysis of the concept of play as a form of spatial practice in urban public spaces.

Germany developed a large colonial empire over the last thirty years of the 19th century, spanning regions of the west coast of Africa to its east coast and beyond.

Teach your robot new tricks!

Except from the ForewordThe stated aim of the book series "e;Capturing Intelligence"e; is to publish books on research from all disciplines dealing with and affecting the issue of understanding and reproducing intelligence artificial systems.

During the last few years, Greece has become a subject of increasing attention worldwide.

During the last few years, Greece has become a subject of increasing attention worldwide.

Advances in Digitalization and Machine Learning for Integrated Building-Transportation Energy Systems examines the combined impact of buildings and transportation systems on energy demand and use.

Around the world concerns about cost, efficiency, and safety - employee, product, process and consumer -- have led to changes in the way food plants are planned, constructed and evaluated.

Social robots not only work with humans in collaborative workspaces - we meet them in shopping malls and even more personal settings like health and care.

Owen Bishop introduces, through hands-on project work, the mechanics, electronics and programming involved in practical robot design-and-build.

The ROV Manual: A User Guide for Observation-Class Remotely Operated Vehicles is the first manual to provide a basic "e;"e;How To"e;"e; for using small observation-class ROVs for surveying, inspection and research procedures.

The 21st century is on the verge of a possible total economic and political revolution.

The book addresses the interdisciplinary and multiscale theme of the design of sustainable, inclusive and creative urban green spaces in relation to the socio-ecological transition and in line with the systemic vision promoted by the 2030 Agenda, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the principles outlined by the New European Bauhaus (European Commission, 2021).

Written by two of Europe's leading robotics experts, this book provides the tools for a unified approach to the modelling of robotic manipulators, whatever their mechanical structure.

Of the 300 papers presented during IROS '94, 48 were selected because they are particularly significant and characteristic for the present state of the technology of intelligent robots and systems.

This book surveys the state of the art in explainable and interpretable reinforcement learning (RL) as relevant for robotics.

This book surveys the state of the art in explainable and interpretable reinforcement learning (RL) as relevant for robotics.

Binary Digital Image Processing is aimed at faculty, postgraduate students and industry specialists.

Artificial Vision is a rapidly growing discipline, aiming to build computational models of the visual functionalities in humans, as well as machines that emulate them.

Explore the intricacies of UAV technology, components, autonomous systems, and applications in various industries.

This book frames the many-sided fragilities of Hunan Province's Heritage.

Comprehensive guide to industrial automation and robotics, covering fluid power systems, control mechanisms, and AI integration for enhanced operational efficiency.

Comprehensive guide to industrial automation and robotics, covering fluid power systems, control mechanisms, and AI integration for enhanced operational efficiency.

What are the challenges and potential of complex and emergent urban systems?

Rather than using traditional artificial intelligence techniques, which are ineffective when applied to the complexities of real-world robot navigaiton, Connell describes a methodology of reconstructing intelligent robots with distributed, multiagent control systems.

The papers included in this volume highlight research and practice in child and adolescent mental health from around the world.

Microcomputer technology and micromechanical design have contributed to recent rapid advances in Robotics.

This book offers in-depth ethnographic analyses of key informants' interviews on the ecological urbanism and ecosystem services (ES) of selected green infrastructure (GI) in Yoruba cities of Ile-Ife, Ibadan, Osogbo, Lagos, Abeokuta, Akure, Ondo, among others in Southwest Nigeria.

Contemporary cities are shaped by the unlikely adjacencies of objects that are vastly different in kind, origin, and scale: buildings, infrastructure, and other urban components that over time accumulate into mismatched configurations.