Electronics engineering Books

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Mathematical Description of Blind Signal Processing.- Chapter 3. Independent Component Analysis (ICA).- Chapter 4. Non-Linear Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Feature Extraction.- Chapter 5. Non-Linear ICA.-...

In this edited collection we commemorate the 60th birthday of Prof. Christopher Byrnes and the retirement of Prof. Anders Lindquist from the Chair of Optimization and Systems Theory at KTH. These papers were presented in part...

During the last years there has been an increasing interest in the area of service robots. Under this category we find robots working in tasks such as elderly care, guiding, office and domestic assistance, inspection, and many more. Service robots...

Modern communication devices, such as mobile phones, teleconferencing systems, VoIP, etc., are often used in noisy and reverberant environments. Therefore, signals picked up by the microphones from telecommunication devices...

Internal combustion engines (ICE) still have potential for substantial improvements, particularly with regard to fuel efficiency and environmental compatibility. In order to fully exploit the remaining margins, increasingly sophisticated control systems...

Driven by the need to achieve superior control performances for robots with hyper degrees of freedom, the virtual decomposition control approach is thoroughly presented in this book. This approach uses subsystem (such as links...

Fault Tolerant Control and Hybrid Systems.- Hybrid Systems with Time-Dependent Switching.- Hybrid Systems with State-Dependent Switching.- Hybrid Systems with Impulsive and Stochastic Switching.- Hybrid Systems with Discrete Specifications.- Hybrid...

Primary goal of this book is to provide a cohesive description of the vast field of semiconductor quantum devices, with special emphasis on basic quantum-mechanical phenomena governing the electro-optical response of ...

This book is volume III of a series of books on silicon photonics. It reports on the development of fully integrated systems where many different photonics component are integrated together to build complex circuits. This is the demonstration of the...

Condensed matter systems where interactions are strong are inherently difficult to analyze theoretically. The situation is particularly interesting in low-dimensional systems, where quantum fluctuations play a crucial role. Here, the development of...

Human Centered Robotic Systems must be able to interact with humans such that the burden of adaptation lies with the machine and not with the human. This book collates a set of prominent papers presented during a two-day conference on "Human Centered...

It is widely anticipated that autonomous vehicles will have a transformational impact on military forces and will play a key role in many future force structures. As a result, many tasks have already been identified that...

The growth of Internet traf?c in recent years surpassed the prediction of one decade ago. Data stream in individual countries already reached terabit/s level. To cope with the petabit class demands of traf?c in coming years the...

With the increasing applications of intelligent robotic systems in various ?elds, the - sign and control of these systems have increasingly attracted interest from researchers. This edited book entitled "Design and Control of...

Perceiving 3D Range Data.- State of the Art.- 3D Range Image Registration.- Globally Consistent Range Image Registration.- Experiments and Results.- 3D Maps with Semantics.- Conclusions and Outlook.

I: Systems.- The Co-Opticon System: Interface, System Architecture, and Implementation of a Collaboratively Controlled Robotic Webcam.- The Tele-Actor System: Collaborative Teleoperation Using Networked Spatial Dynamic Voting.- II: Algorithms.- Exact...

Basic Motion Profiles.- Analytic Expressions of Elementary Trajectories.- Composition of Elementary Trajectories.- Multipoint Trajectories.- Elaboration and Analysis of Trajectories.- Operations on Trajectories.- Trajectories and Actuators.- Dynamic...

The Brief Elementary Basics of Antenna Arrays.- Lens Candidates to Antenna Array.- FZP Lens Array.- Some Fields of Lens Array Applications.

Motivation and Vision.- Fundamentals.- Analysis and Modeling.- Securing RFID Systems.- Pseudonymization Infrastructures.- Extending the RFID System Model.- Current Research.

"Sense of Touch and its Rendering" presents a unique and interdisciplinary approach highlighting the field of haptic research from a neuropsychological as well as a technological point of view. This edited book is the outcome...

The book deals with the problem area of the vector control of the three-phase AC machines like that one of the induction motor with squirrel-cage rotor (IMSR), the permanentmagnet excited synchronous motor (PMSM) and that one...

Hardware Platforms for Third-Generation Mobile Terminals.- Nonvolatile Memories: NOR vs. NAND Architectures.- Nonvolatile Memories: Novel Concepts and Emerging Technologies.- Memory Cards.- Multichip.- Software Management of Flash Memories.- Error...

Collisions and cross sections.- The plasma.- DC discharges.- High-frequency discharges I.- High-frequency discharges II.- High-frequency discharges III.- Ion beam systems.- Plasma diagnostics.- Plasma deposition processes.- Plasma etch processes.- Etch...

Invited Papers.- Intelligent Vehicle Systems:Applications and New Trends.- Symbiosis of Human and Communication Robots.- Wave-based Control of Flexible Mechanical Systems.- What is Networked Robotics?.- Intelligent Control Systems and Optimization.-...

Mapping and Navigation.- Robotic Mapping Methods.- Biological Navigation Systems.- Emulating Nature: Models of Hippocampus.- Robotic or Bio-inspired: A Comparison.- Pilot Study of a Hippocampal Model.- RatSLAM: An Extended Hippocampal Model.- Goal...

Fundamentals of Piezoelectricity.- Overview of Acoustic-Wave Microsensors.- Models for Resonant Sensors.- Models for Piezoelectric Transducers Used in Broadband Ultrasonic Applications.- Interface Electronic Systems for AT-Cut QCM Sensors: A...

Grasping vs. Manipulating.- Kinetostatic Analysis of Robotic Fingers.- Grasp Stability of Underactuated Fingers.- Optimal Design of Underactuated Fingers.- Underactuation between the Fingers.- Design and Control of the Laval Underactuated Hands.-...

The SOLERO Rover.- 3D-Odometry.- Control in Rough-Terrain.- Position Tracking in Rough-Terrain.- Conclusion.- Kinematic and Quasi-static Model of SOLERO.- Linearized Models.- The Gauss-Markov Process.- Visual Motion Estimation.

The Evolution of Self-Organization.- Embodied Cognitive Science.- Multi-Robot Systems, Swarm Robotics and Self-Organisation.- Evolutionary Robotics for Self-Organising Behaviours.- Experiments with Simulated and Real Robots.- A Self-Organising Artefact:...

Highly automated production and logistics facilities require mechatronic drive solutions. This book describes in which way the industrial production and logistics work and shows the structure of the drive solutions required for...

This second edition is a thoroughly revised, updated and expanded version of a classic text, with lots of new material on electronic signal creation, amplification and shaping. It's still a thorough general introduction, too,...

Tra?c Flow Theory for 1-D.- CrowdModels for 2-D.- Numerical Methods.- Feedback Linearization (1-D Patches).- Intelligent Evacuation Systems.- Discretized Feedback Control.- Discretized Optimal Control.- Distributed Feedback Control 1-D.- Distributed...

This important work is an attempt to synthesize two areas that need to be treated in tandem. The book brings together the fields of robot spatial mapping and cognitive spatial mapping, which share some common core problems. One...

Literature Survey.- Design and Development of an FPGA-based Robot.- Hardware-Efficient Robotic Exploration.- Hardware-Efficient Landmark Determination.- The Road Ahead.

Historical Background.- Silicon: Child and Progenitor of Revolution.- The Economic Implications of Moore's Law.- State-of-the-Art.- Using Silicon to Understand Silicon.- Theory of Defects in Si: Past, Present, and Challenges.- Structural, Elemental, and...

New concept of cooperation.- Needs of improved assistant systems.- Adaptive cooperation between driver and assistant system.- Executive level as vehicle platform.- Requirements for the executive level.- Road-tire ? friction coefficient estimation.-...

Modeling and problem statements.- Stochastic stability.- Stability.- Stabilization.- State Feedback Stabilization.- ?? Stabilization.- Output Feedback Stabilization.- Observer-Based Feedback Stabilization.- Filtering.- Filtering.- Singular Optimal...

Channel Estimation and Prediction.- Estimation of Channel and Noise Covariance Matrices.- Linear Precoding with Partial Channel State Information.- Nonlinear Precoding with Partial Channel State Information.

Scientific State-of-the-Art.- Development of a Highly Miniaturized Inertial Measurement System.- Multi-Sensor Fusion Algorithms for Spatial Orientation Calculation.- Active Camera Stabilization.- Active Vision for Assistance Systems.- Summary and...

Overview.- Sensor Networks: An Overview.- Data Stream Processing.- Data Stream Processing in Sensor Networks.- Data Stream Management Techniques in Sensor Networks.- Data Stream Management Systems and Architectures.- Querying of Sensor Data.- Aggregation...

The DARPA Grand Challenge was a landmark in the field of robotics: a race by autonomous vehicles through 132 miles of rough Nevada terrain. It showcased exciting and unprecedented capabilities in robotic perception, navigation,...

Toward Hierarchical Multi-Robot Urban Search and Rescue: Development of a 'Mother' Agent.- Multi-Robot Search and Rescue: A Potential Field Based Approach.- Probabilistic Target Search Strategy.- Localisation and Mapping With a Mobile Robot Using Sparse...

In this book, Martijn Wisse and Richard Q. van der Linde provide a detailed description of their research on pneumatic biped robots at the Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. The book covers the basic theory of passive dynamic walking and...

A Robotic Future.- Multi-Hierarchical, Symbolic Representation of the Environment.- Application of Hierarchical Models to Mobile Robot Task Planning.- Mobile Robot Operation with Multi-Hierarchies.- Automatic Learning of Hierarchical Models.-...

Chaos in Laser Systems.- Semiconductor Lasers and Theory.- Theory of Optical Feedback in Semiconductor Lasers.- Dynamics of Semiconductor Lasers with Optical Feedback.- Dynamics in Semiconductor Lasers with Optical Injection.- Dynamics of Semiconductor...

The Finite Element (FE) Method.- Mechanical Field.- Electromagnetic Field.- Acoustic Field.- Coupled Electrostatic-Mechanical Systems.- Coupled Magnetomechanical Systems.- Coupled Mechanical-Acoustic Systems.- Piezoelectric Systems.- Computational...

to Five-Axis NC Machining.- Fundamental Issues in Tool Path Planning.- Space-Filling Curve Tool Paths.- Tool Paths in Adaptive Curvilinear Coordinates.- Optimization of Rotations.- Theory of Optimal Setup for Five-Axis NC Machining.

Properties of Compressed Air.- Thermodynamic Processes.- Some Results from Fluid Mechanics.- Engineering Flow Rate Calculations.- Modelling of Long Lines.- Electro-Mechanical Converters.- Cylinders.- Non-Standard Linear Actuators.- Semi-Rotary Actuators...