Automatic control engineering Books

Control Performance Management in Industrial Automation provides a coherent and self-contained treatment of a group of methods and applications of burgeoning importance to the detection and solution of problems with control...

Most ocean vessels are underactuated but control of their motion in the real ocean environment is essential. Starting with a review of the background on ocean-vessel dynamics and nonlinear control theory, the authors'...

Control of Noise and Structural Vibration presents a MATLAB®-based approach to solving the problems of undesirable noise generation and transmission by structures and of undesirable vibration within structures in response to...

Wind Energy Conversion System covers the technological progress of wind energy conversion systems, along with potential future trends. It includes recently developed wind energy conversion systems such as multi-converter operation of variable-speed wind...

This is a unified collection of important recent results for the design of robust controllers for uncertain systems, primarily based on H8 control theory or its stochastic counterpart, risk sensitive control theory. Two...

The time evol11tion of many physical phenomena in nat11re can be de­ scribed by partial differential eq11ations. To analyze and control the dynamic behavior of s11ch systems. infinite dimensional system theory was developed and...

This up-to-date book details the basic concepts of many recent developments of nonlinear identification and nonlinear control, and their application to hydraulic servo-systems. It is very application-oriented and provides the...

Designing inclusively is no longer an option for companies. It is a business essential. Global populations are getting older, legislation is increasingly prohibitive of unnecessary exclusion and consumer attitudes are beginning...

Part I Bond Graph Theory and Methodology.- Chapter 1:Concept-oriented Modelling of Dynamic Behaviour.- Chapter2: Energy-Based Bond Graph Model Reduction.- Chapter 3: LFT Bond Graph Model Based Robust Fault Detection and Isolation.- Chapter 4: Incremental...

Robotic Cells in Practice.- A Classification Scheme for Robotic Cells and Notation.- Cyclic Production.- Dual-Gripper Robots.- Parallel Machines.- Multiple-Part-Type Production: Single-Gripper Robots.- Multiple-Part-Type Production: Dual-Gripper Robots.-...

This book provides the latest information in intelligent vehicle control and intelligent transportation. Detailed discussions of vehicle dynamics and ground-vehicle interactions are provided for the modeling, simulation and...

Iron Roofs: A Series of Examples, Illustrating Various Combinations of Iron (1850) is a book written by George Drysdale Dempsey. The book is a comprehensive guide to the use of iron in roofing, and it provides a series of examples that illustrate various...

Traditionally, electrical machines are classi?ed into d. c. commutator (brushed) machines, induction (asynchronous) machines and synchronous machines. These three types of electrical machines are still regarded in many academic curricula as fundamental...

Synthesis and Optimization of DSP Algorithms describes approaches taken to synthesising structural hardware descriptions of digital circuits from high-level descriptions of Digital Signal Processing (DSP) algorithms. The book...

Introduction to Digital Audio Coding and Standards provides a detailed introduction to the methods, implementations, and official standards of state-of-the-art audio coding technology. In the book, the theory and implementation...

Dragon Flies Vs. Mosquitoes: Can The Mosquito Pest Be Mitigated? is a book written by Robert H. Lamborn in 1890. The book explores the possibility of using dragonflies as a natural predator to control the mosquito population. The author discusses the...

This study deals with an underexplored area of the emerging technologies debate: robotics in the healthcare setting. The author explores the role of care and develops a value-sensitive ethical framework for the eventual employment of care robots. ...

This book gives an account of an ellipsoidal calculus and ellipsoidal techniques developed by the authors. The text ranges from a specially developed theory of exact set-valued solutions to the description of ellipsoidal...

Identifying the input-output relationship of a system or discovering the evolutionary law of a signal on the basis of observation data, and applying the constructed mathematical model to predicting, controlling or extracting...

In recent years, the field of supply chain management has witnessed a significant transformation with the advent of Robotic Process Automation (RPA). This groundbreaking technology has revolutionized the way organizations approach their supply chain...

Automation has revolutionized the manufacturing industry, allowing companies to streamline their processes, improve productivity, and achieve higher levels of efficiency. In recent years, the concept of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) has gained...

The Evolution of the Tech IndustryIn today's fast-paced digital world, the tech industry is constantly evolving and transforming at an unprecedented rate. From the early days of punch cards and mainframe computers to the current era of artificial...

Europe has paid a high price for asbestos, with over 100 000 related deaths. First in line in the fight to free buildings from asbestos contamination, workers in the construction sector could soon find a helping hand in the form of an AI-piloted robotic...

As the automotive industry faces into the smart era through advances in sensing, computation, storage, communication, and actuation technologies, a larger number of more complex control applications with better performances are expected to be on board...

Marine robots are being increasingly deployed in environmental sensing and ocean observation applications. The key challenges in mobile ocean sensing are to design and control the motion of the robots to collect Lagrangian data over a large spatial...

In view of Professor Wendell Fleming's many fundamental contributions, his profound influence on the mathematical and systems theory communi­ ties, his service to the profession, and his dedication to mathematics, we have...

A book is never the sole accomplishment of the authors. It is built on the foun­ dation of established mathematics, and it benefits from current developments within the mathematical community. Many colleagues have contributed...

Game theory is a rich and active area of research of which this new volume of the Annals of the International Society of Dynamic Games is yet fresh evidence. Since the second half of the 20th century, the area of dynamic games...

Dynamics systems (living organisms, electromechanical and industrial systems, chemical and technological processes, market and ecology, and so forth) can be considered and analyzed using information and systems theories. For...

Stochastic control theory is a relatively young branch of mathematics. The beginning of its intensive development falls in the late 1950s and early 1960s. During that period an extensive literature appeared on optimal ...

This book will have a broad appeal in the area of Wireless Networking-Based Control. Various engineering disciplines, control and communication science organizations will be interested in purchasing the book with a new, emerging, and important theme...

Systematic Design of Sigma-Delta Analog-to-Digital Converters describes the issues related to the sigma-delta analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) design in a systematic manner: from the top level of abstraction represented by...

Provides broad insights into problems of coding control algorithms on a DSP platform. - Includes a set of Simulink simulation files (source codes) which permits readers to envisage the effects of control solutions on the...

Compiled from papers of the 4th Biennial Workshop on DSP (Digital Signal Processing) for In-Vehicle Systems and Safety this edited collection features world-class experts from diverse fields focusing on integrating smart in-vehicle systems with human...

This book presents a survey of past and recent developments on human walking in virtual environments with an emphasis on human self-motion perception, the multisensory nature of experiences of walking, conceptual design approaches, current technologies,...

The Pumps and Pipes collaboration and conference brings together energy, medicine, and higher education in a unique shared effort, exploring ideas and research common to these important fields and stimulating discussion and sharing technologies that can...

Introduction.- FeedbackControl of Particle Size Distribution in Nanoparticle Synthesis andProcessing.- In situ optical sensingand state estimation in crystal growth.- Autonomous tip based 2-D mechanicalassembly of micro/nano-particles.- Atomic Force...

Complexity and dynamic order of controlled engineering systems is constantly increasing. Complex large scale systems (where "large" reflects the system's order and not necessarily its physical size) appear in many engineering fields, such as...

Perhaps nothing characterizes the inherent heterogeneity in embedded sys­ tems than the ability to choose between hardware and software implementations of a given system function. Indeed, most embedded systems at their core...

Quantitative Feedback Design of Linear and Nonlinear Control Systems is a self-contained book dealing with the theory and practice of Quantitative Feedback Theory (QFT). The author presents feedback synthesis techniques for...

This book provides an overview of a series of advanced research lines in robotics as well as of design and development methodologies for intelligent robots and their intelligent components. It represents a selection of extended versions of the best...

This book presents the technological basics and applications of small-scale (mm to sub-mm in length-scales) soft robots and devices, written for researchers in both academia and industry. Author Jaeyoun Kim presents technological motivations, enabling...

With this brief, the authors present algorithms for model-free stabilization of unstable dynamic systems. An extremum-seeking algorithm assigns the role of a cost function to the dynamic system's control Lyapunov function (clf) aiming at its minimization...

Die Informationstagung "Mikroelektronik" findet im Rahmen der ie (Internationale Fachmesse für industrielle Elektronik) seit dem Jahr 1975 im Abstand von zwei Jahren statt. Die Einzelbeiträge der Tagung 1989 werden in dem...

Im Tagungsband zur Informationstagung "Mikroelektronik 87" werden die in Form von Kurzvorträgen und Posters dargebotenen Beiträge in übersichtlicher Form präsentiert und geben einen guten Überblick über den aktuellen ...