Electronics engineering Books

This monograph bridges the gap between the nonlinear predictor as a concept and as a practical tool, presenting a complete theory of the application of predictor feedback to time-invariant, uncertain systems with constant input delays and/or measurement...

This book provides a comprehensive set of characterization, prediction, optimization, evaluation, and evolution techniques for a diagnosis system for fault isolation in large electronic systems. Readers with a background in electronics design or system...

This book introduces readers to the potential of charge-sharing (CS) successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), while providing extensive analysis of the factors that limit the performance of the CS topology. The...

This edited monograph collects research contributions and addresses the advancement of efficient numerical procedures in the area of model order reduction (MOR) for simulation, optimization and control. The topical scope includes, but is not limited to,...

Chapter 1.Introduction.- Chapter 2. Review of Bio-Amplifier Architectures.- Chapter 3. An Active Electrode Readout Circuit.- Chapter 4. An 8-Channel Active Electrode System.- Chapter 5. Current Noise of Chopper Amplifiers.- Chapter 6. A Digital Active...

The DARPA Robotics Challenge was a robotics competition that took place in Pomona, California USA in June 2015. The competition was the culmination of 33 months of demanding work by 23 teams and required humanoid robots to perform challenging locomotion...

1. Prologue2. Motor Fault Detection and Diagnosis Based on Meta-cognitive Random Vector Functional Link Network3. Optimal Adaptive Threshold and Mode Fault Detection for Model-based Fault Diagnosis of Hybrid Dynamical Systems4. Diagnosing Hybrid...

Chapter 1.Introduction.- Chapter 2.State of the art.- Chapter 3.System analysis of mm-wave wireless sensor networks.- Chapter 4.Recti er analysis.- Chapter 5.mm-Wave recti ers.- Chapter 6.mm-Wave monolithic integrated sensor nodes.- Chapter 7.-Wave...

This book guides engineers through the use of the Costas loop, which can be considered an extension of the better known Phase-locked loop. The author discusses all three variants of the Costas loop and describes their dynamic behavior, using newly...

This book discusses global mobile satellite communications (GMSC) for maritime, land (road and rail), and aeronautical applications. It covers how these enable connections between moving objects such as ships, road and rail vehicles and aircrafts on one...

The first volume of the Adaptive Environments series focuses on Robotic Building, which refers to both physically built robotic environments and robotically supported building processes. Physically built robotic environments consist of reconfigurable,...

This book reports on findings at the intersection between two related fields, namely coastal hydrography and marine robotics. On one side, it shows how the exploration of the ocean can be performed by autonomous underwater vehicles; on the other side,...

These volumes of "Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing" highlight papers presented at the "Third Iberian Robotics Conference (ROBOT 2017)". Held from 22 to 24 November 2017 in Seville, Spain, the conference is a part of a series of conferences...

Tele operation systems, in which robots are controlled remotely, are a potential solution to performing tasks in remote, small, and hazardous environments. However, there is a big disadvantage to these systems; as the direct connection between the human...

This book covers essential topics in the architecture and design of Internet of Things (IoT) systems. The authors provide state-of-the-art information that enables readers to design systems that balance functionality, bandwidth, and power consumption,...

This book describes the physics of phase change memory devices, starting from basic operation to reliability issues. The book gives a comprehensive overlook of PCM with particular attention to the electrical transport and the phase transition physics...

The book deals with intelligent control of mobile robots, presenting the state-of-the-art in the field, and introducing new control algorithms developed and tested by the authors. It also discusses the use of artificial intelligent methods like neural...

This book provides wide knowledge about designing FPGA-based heterogeneous computing systems, using a high-level design environment based on OpenCL (Open Computing language), which is called OpenCL for FPGA. The OpenCL-based design methodology will be...

This course-based text revisits classic concepts in nonlinear circuit theory from a very much introductory point of view: the presentation is completely self-contained and does not assume any prior knowledge of circuit theory. It is simply assumed that...

This book presents nearly 90 carefully selected contributions at the 12th International Conference Mechatronics, which took place in Brno, Czech Republic on 6-8 September 2017. Reflecting the most progressive and constantly changing areas of...

This book covers the state-of-the-art in deep neural-network-based methods for noise robustness in distant speech recognition applications. It provides insights and detailed descriptions of some of the new concepts and key technologies in the field,...

This book includes a review of mathematical tools like modelling, analysis of stochastic processes, calculus of variations and stochastic differential equations which are applied to solve financial problems like modern portfolio theory and option pricing...

This book presents computational methods for extracting the useful information from audio signals, collecting the state of the art in the field of sound event and scene analysis. The authors cover the entire procedure for developing such methods, ranging...

This book is a concise review of the current status and future prospects of concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) technology. Starting with a summary of the current technical and economic status of CPV technology, it identifies the factors that hold CPV back...

1 Introduction 1.1 Fundamental Limits in Channel Capacity 1.2 Motivation 1.3 Research Objectives and Problem Statement 1.4 Organization of Book 2 Printed Antennas for High-Speed Communication Systems: Preliminaries and Review 2.1...

This volumeof Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing contains papers presented inthe main track of IITI 2016, the First International Conference on IntelligentInformation Technologies for Industry held in May 16-21 in Sochi, Russia. Theconference...

This book introduces the state-of-the-art technologies in mechatronics, robotics, and MEMS devices in order to improve their methodologies. It provides a follow-up to "Advanced Mechatronics and MEMS Devices" (2013) with an exploration of the most...

Thepresent book includes a set of selected extended papers from the 12thInternational Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO2015), held in Colmar, France, from 21 to 23 July 2015. The conference brought togetherresearchers,...

This book covers allaspects of robot intelligence from perception at sensor level and reasoning atcognitive level to behavior planning at execution level for each low levelsegment of the machine. It also presents the technologies for cognitivereasoning,...

This book presents the latest key research into the performanceand reliability aspects of dependable fault-tolerant systems and featurescommentary on the fields studied by Prof. Kishor S. Trivedi during hisdistinguished career. Analyzing system...

Introduction to Nanoporous Metals.- Formation and Microstructural Regulation of Nanoporous Metals.- Nanoporous Metals for Fuel Cell Applications.- Nanoporous Metals for Supercapacitor Applications.- Nanoporous Metals for Li Battery Applications.-...

This volumecontains papers presented at the 2nd International Afro-European Conference forIndustrial Advancement -- AECIA 2015. The conference aimed at bringing togetherthe foremost experts and excellent young researchers from Africa, Europe andthe rest...

Thisbook presents the set of papers accepted for presentation at the InternationalConference Automation, held in Warsaw, 2-4March of 2016. It presents the research results presented by top experts in thefields of industrial automation, control, robotics...

This book presents the proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Trends in Materials and Devices, which was conceived as a major contribution to large-scale efforts to foster Indian research and development in the field in close collaboration...

Now in its third edition, this standard reference is a comprehensive treatment of nonsmooth mechanical systems refocused to give more prominence to issues connected with control and modelling. It covers Lagrangian and Newton-Euler systems, detailing...

This book contains a selection of papersaccepted for presentation and discussion at ROBOT 2015: Second Iberian RoboticsConference, held in Lisbon, Portugal, November 19th-21th, 2015. ROBOT 2015 ispart of a series of conferences that are a joint...

This book is an up-to-date compendium on spacecraft attitude and orbit control (AOC) that offers a systematic and complete treatment of the subject with the aim of imparting the theoretical and practical knowledge that is required by designers,...

The book provides readers with a snapshot of recent research and technological trends in the field of condition monitoring of machinery working under a broad range of operating conditions. Each chapter, accepted after a rigorous peer-review process,...

·         Provides an overall understanding of all aspects of AC electrical drives, from the motor and converter to the implemented control algorithm, with minimum mathematics...