Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering
Basic Electrical Principles: Provide a comprehensive introduction to fundamental electrical principles, including Ohm's Law, Kirchhoff's Laws, and the concepts of voltage, current, resistance, power, and energy. Explain how these principles form the foundation for understanding electrical circuits and systems.Components and Devices: Discuss the key electrical components and devices used in circuits, such as resistors, capacitors, inductors, diodes, transistors, and operational amplifiers. Provide insights into their functions, characteristics, and applications in electronic circuits.Electromagnetism and AC Theory: Examine the principles of electromagnetism and alternating current (AC) theory, including magnetic fields, inductance, capacitance, impedance, and power factor. Cover AC circuit analysis, phasors, and the behavior of reactive components in AC systems.Electrical Engineering Applications: Address real-world applications of electrical engineering principles, including power generation and distribution, electronic devices, control systems, and renewable energy technologies. Discuss how fundamental concepts are applied in practical engineering solutions and technological innovations
Analog Digital and Microprocessor Electronics
This book provides a comprehensive coverage of the fundamental aspects of analog digital and microprocessor electronics.This book explains how networks of semiconductor devices perform signal processing tasks.It provides in depth account of topics such as oscillator, power amplifier, BJT and field effect transistor, data and number representation, memory circuits, programmable logic devices, combinational logic circuit, synchronous sequential logic and microprocessors.This book is an asset for digital electronics engineer, digital circuit design engineer, digital integrated circuit design engineer, B.E., B.Tech, M.Sc. (Computer Science/IT), M.Sc. (Physics), Electronics, BCA and MCA students.
Human - Machine Navigation Systems
-Provides an overview of the importance of navigation systems in our daily lives and highlights the latest advances in this field.-Focuses on a walking support system that takes into account the user's physical and environmental circumstances and the system is designed to assist users in walking safely and efficiently, particularly those with mobility impairments.-Presents a navigation system for visually impaired persons that uses a vision-based tactile paving detection method and the system is designed to provide real-time information about the environment to visually impaired users, enabling them to navigate more safely and independently.-Focuses on the optimization of Non-Operational Environment (NOE) flights sensors and the system is designed to provide accurate and reliable navigation for Pipeline Inspection Gauges (PIGs) in pipeline inspection applications.-The book will be of interest to researchers, engineers, and practitioners working in the fields of navigation systems, robotics, and human-machine interaction.
Microwave and RF Design
-The book covers all the basic principles and concepts of microwave engineering, including transmission lines, network analysis, and passive components.-The book provides an in-depth coverage of transmission lines, including planar transmission lines and extraordinary transmission line effects and covers both analytical and graphical network analysis techniques.-The book includes clear explanations of complex concepts and equations, making it easy for readers to understand and apply the principles of microwave and RF design.-The book includes relevant illustrations and diagrams to help readers visualize the concepts and applications of microwave and RF design.-The book is suitable for beginners who have a basic understanding of electrical engineering and are interested in learning about microwave and RF design.
Basic Motor Control
-It covers a comprehensive range of topics related to electrical motor control systems. The first part of the book defines terms and concepts related to motor control systems.-The second part of the book focuses on pilot devices, such as switches and pushbuttons, common pilot devices, and zero-speed switches. It includes self-test questions to help readers assess their understanding of the material.-The third part of the book discusses motor starters and contactors, including overload relays, manual motor starters, magnetic-motor starters, and control relays.-The fourth part of the book discusses diagrams, such as schematic vs. wiring diagrams, numbering systems, conduit fill, and motor-lead connections.-The fifth part of the book covers circuits, such as power circuits, control circuit's source of supply, automatic control circuits, and sump-pump circuits and the last part of the book discusses troubleshooting motor control systems., - This book is an excellent reference for students, engineers, and technicians who work with motor control systems and valuable resource for anyone who wants to learn about electrical motor control systems
Harnessing the Abyss
Beneath the ocean's surface lies a vast and mysterious frontier, rich in critical minerals, vital to cutting-edge technologies, and brimming with ecological wonders. As humanity's demand for resources surges, the deep sea emerges as both an opportunity and a challenge: a promise of economic and technological advancement tempered by the need for environmental stewardship. In Harnessing the Abyss: AI and the Future of Deep Sea Mining, this groundbreaking work explores the transformative role of artificial intelligence (AI) in unlocking the potential of deep sea resources. From the precision of AI-driven exploration and extraction to the intricacies of environmental monitoring and global governance, the book provides an in-depth examination of how technology can align with sustainability to redefine resource development. Yet, it also grapples with the profound ethical questions raised by this new frontier: How do we balance progress with preservation? What responsibilities do we bear to future generations and the ecosystems that sustain us? Drawing on the latest advancements in AI, robotics, and environmental science, the book delves into the innovations reshaping the industry, the challenges that remain, and the strategies needed to ensure equitable and sustainable practices. It offers actionable recommendations for industry leaders and researchers while envisioning a future where technological ingenuity and ecological stewardship work in harmony. Insightful, thought-provoking, and deeply relevant, Harnessing the Abyss is both a guide and a call to action for those navigating the complexities of deep sea mining. It challenges us to harness the power of innovation with care and foresight, ensuring that the treasures of the deep are not squandered but serve as a foundation for a sustainable and equitable future.
Smart Cities
-It presents a range of innovative ideas and technologies that can be used to create sustainable, efficient, and livable cities of the future.-The book begins with an overview of the evolution of cities from conventional to smart cities, highlighting the challenges and opportunities of this transformation.-The book explores the concept of underground cities and presents the Earthscraper, a smart solution for developing future underground cities.-The book introduces the idea of floating cities and presents the Floating Cities Bridge in 2050 as a solution to the challenges of urbanization.-The book discusses the use of Geographic Information System (GIS) for risk and safety analysis of entrance areas in educational buildings, based on students' experience.-The book discusses the use of intelligent construction contracts to automate and streamline the construction process, reducing costs and increasing efficiency and also explores the use of 5D Building Information Modelling (BIM) applications in quantity surveying, with a focus on the use of Dynamo and 3D printing technologies.-The book serves as a valuable reference book for engineers and students working on smart cities and helps city planners and technologists.
Infrastructure Management
-Provides an overview of the book and explains the importance of infrastructure management and covers the entire asset management process, including planning, acquisition, operation, maintenance, and disposal.-Covers how to measure the performance of infrastructure assets, usage patterns, and budgeting and cost functions and provides information on interdependent infrastructure systems, resiliency planning, and security considerations.-Explains how to manage contracts and workflow related to infrastructure management and also covers the commissioning process for new infrastructure facilities, including design, construction, and handover.-Explains information on managing roadway infrastructure, managing water infrastructure, including treatment, distribution, and wastewater management and covers managing building infrastructure, including planning, design, construction, and maintenance.-Covers managing electricity infrastructure, including power generation, transmission, and distribution and discusses managing infrastructure for bases, campuses, parks, and ports.-The book is written for anyone interested in managing infrastructure assets effectively, including those responsible for planning, designing, building, and maintaining infrastructure assets across a range of sectors and industries.
Matrix Algebra
-It is a comprehensive guide to the fundamental concepts of matrix algebra, with a focus on practical applications and problem-solving techniques.-It teaches matrix algebra with minimal theory and emphasis on computation.-It covers solving systems of linear equations, matrix arithmetic, the determinant, eigen values, and linear transformations.-The book explores the graphical representations of vectors, and how they can be used to understand linear algebra concepts.-Useful for the students of Statistics, Mathematics, Operations Research as well as students in various branches of Engineering and provides an in depth analysis of Matrix Algebra and all the major topics related to it.
Satellite Positioning
-The book covers a range of topics related to satellite positioning and its various applications and also discusses the methods used for calibrating Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receivers, the results obtained from these methods, and how to evaluate them.-Provides a detailed description of Network Real Time Kinematic (NRTK) positioning, including its architectures and performances.-Focuses on GPS-based non-gravitational accelerations and the calibration of accelerometers used in GPS positioning and discusses surface reflectance characteristics and snow surface variations that can be detected using GNSS reflected signals.-This book provides a good reference for satellite positioning techniques, engineers, scientists as well as user community.
Structural Health Monitoring
Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) is a key solution for current and future safety, reliability and sustainability. This reprint contains key studies and systematic reviews highlighting the latest advancements in SHM specially in the domain of civil and mechanical infrastructures in terms of advanced sensing, diagnostics, and prognostics.
Biomedical Electronics and Wearable Systems
Wearable electronic systems allow for the monitoring of vital signs such as heart rate, blood pressure, and activity levels. These real-time data help individuals understand their personal health trends and make informed decisions to improve their well-being. The eleven papers included in this Special Issue show how wearables facilitate a proactive, preventive, and personalized approach to health management, empowering individuals and supporting healthcare providers in delivering better care while also addressing some challenges to the wider adoption of these systems. Reliable and durable electrodes and sensors are essential for accurate data in e-health applications, improving diagnostics, and the early detection of health issues. Wearable inertial measurement devices offer personalized insights based on individual data, enabling the calculation of sports intensity thresholds, tracking recovery in patients with low back pain, and aiding in the early detection of foot-related diseases. Wearables provide continuous data that can detect health problems early and help manage chronic conditions. They allow patients to monitor health metrics regularly, such as remote glucose monitoring, enable healthcare providers to adjust treatment plans based on objective data, and support patient risk stratification in the preoperative period. However, comfort, non-invasiveness, power consumption, data integrity, and safety are still open issues in the development of biomedical electronics and wearables, propelling research on dedicated buses and robust infrastructures that enable seamless data integration from different sensors.
Social Media Archeology and Poetics
First person accounts by pioneers in the field, classic essays, and new scholarship document the collaborative and creative practices of early social media. Focusing on early social media in the arts and humanities and on the core role of creative computer scientists, artists, and scholars in shaping the pre-Web social media landscape, Social Media Archeology and Poetics documents social media lineage, beginning in the 1970s with collaborative ARPANET research, Community Memory, PLATO, Minitel, and ARTEX and continuing into the 1980s and beyond with the Electronic Caf矇, Art Com Electronic Network, Arts Wire, The THING, and many more. With first person accounts from pioneers in the field, as well as papers by artists, scholars, and curators, Social Media Archeology and Poetics documents how these platforms were vital components of early social networking and important in the development of new media and electronic literature. It describes platforms that allowed artists and musicians to share and publish their work, community networking diversity, and the creation of footholds for the arts and humanities online. And it invites comparisons of social media in the past and present, asking: What can we learn from early social media that will inspire us to envision a greater cultural presence on contemporary social media? Contributors Madeline Gonzalez Allen, James Blustein, Hank Bull, Annick Bureaud, J. R. Carpenter, Paul E. Ceruzzi, Anna Couey, Amanda McDonald Crowley, Steve Dietz, Judith Donath, Steven Durland, Lee Felsenstein, Susanne Gerber, Ann-Barbara Graff, Dene Grigar, Stacy Horn, Antoinette LaFarge, Deena Larsen, Gary O. Larson, Alan Liu, Geert Lovink, Richard Lowenberg, Judy Malloy, Scott McPhee, Julianne Nyhan, Howard Rheingold, Randy Ross, Wolfgang Staehle, Fred Truck, Rob Wittig, David R. Woolley
The XXXII Conference on Electrical and Electronic Engineering
The XXXII JIEE-2024 conference provided a space for collaboration between the academic community and the energy, telecommunications, and automation sectors, in which the EPN showcased the technological advances and challenges that the scientific community has addressed in a number of research and final degree projects related to telecommunications, electronics, information technologies, and electrical engineering. Among the main topics addressed during the conference were the following: i) control and systems; ii) smart grids; iii) the deployment of novel technologies for planning and operating power systems; iv) renewable energy; v) automation; vi) robotics; vii) power electronics; viii) control; ix) wireless technologies; x) mobile communications; xi) cybersecurity; and xii) machine learning. In addition, this was a space to share with the academic and industry community the novel studies that have been carried out worldwide on topics related to power systems, renewable energy, telecommunications, electronics, control, and information technology. With this aim, keynotes from international experts were organized as part of special tutorials held during the conference. This Reprint contains the scientific papers that were presented at XXXII JIEE-2024, which summarize the results of important research projects carried out at Escuela Polit矇cnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador, as well as at other universities and within industry related to power systems, renewable energy, telecommunications, electronics, control, and information technology.
Digital Dominance
"In the modern world," author James Jay Carafano asserts, "winning online could be the key to being free, safe, and prosperous--or being consumed." In his previous book, Wiki at War: Conflict in a Socially Networked World, Carafano explored how social networks operate; how digital networks could impact contemporary national security affairs; and how to dominate the "high ground" in cyberspace. In the ensuing decade, real-world actors have put this knowledge into practice. Written as a sequel, Digital Dominance: Winning in a Socially Networked World is divided into four parts. The first explores the time from Wiki at War to now, updating the ideas and domination strategies through a modern lens as the digital world impacts the physical. The second and third parts break down both sides of the national security challenge: how to not only build an effective, powerful, and impactful network of your own, but how to take apart the networks of adversaries. Carafano concludes with an eagle's-eye view of the environment where this digital war is playing out, what public and private sector actors are participating, and the role of emerging new technologies. Digital Dominance looks at both sides of the national security challenge: how to build networks and make them powerful and impactful, while also weakening the enemy's. Given the growing impact of the "metaverse," the questions raised in this book are only likely to become more crucial over time. Digital Dominance promises to guide and shape our understanding of how strategic success or failure online could increasingly predict outcomes in real time.
DMD Digital Lithography Optimization Technology
In the sophisticated world of microelectronics manufacturing, lithography is the key to miniaturization and high-performance integrated circuits. With the continuous progress of technology, the requirements of lithography resolution and production efficiency are increasing day by day, and the traditional lithography technology is facing unprecedented challenges. Digital Micromirror device (DMD) lithography technology, with its high contrast and fast refresh rate, has become an important tool in the field of micro and nano manufacturing. However, how to improve the lithographic accuracy and pattern quality while maintaining high efficiency is still an urgent problem to be solved in the industry. This book, ""Optimization of DMD Digital Lithography"" by Dr. Shengzhou Huang and his team, brings together their latest research results in the field of DMD lithography optimization. (1) A simulated annealing enhanced genetic algorithm (SA-GA) is proposed to optimize mask design and significantly improve the accuracy of lithography simulation. (2) How to optimize DMD lithography process by hybrid genetic algorithm and improved exposure model is further discussed. The book details how to enhance the diversity of the algorithm by introducing Gaussian noise, and achieve precise adjustment of the parameters of the exposure model through genetic operations such as two-point crossing and bit flip variation. (3) Aiming at the problem of edge jagging caused by non-integer pixel errors in DMD lithography, an optimization method of pixel overlap is proposed. This book not only introduces the theoretical basis and implementation methods of these optimization techniques in detail, but also demonstrates the remarkable effect of these techniques in improving the accuracy and efficiency of lithography through a large number of simulation experiments and practical cases.
Investigation of Mechanical and Thermal Behaviour of Natural Composite
Smart Mobile and Sensing Applications
The introduction of machine learning and deep learning technology to wireless sensor networks to improve perception has become a global trend in research on mobile sensing technology. This reprint focuses on the studies related to mobile sensing systems and applications based on intelligent technology. It contains empirical studies and systematic reviews regarding the application of various emerging artificial intelligence technologies in wireless sensor networks, spanning many areas of study, such as intelligent sensing mechanisms, remote sensing monitoring, and intelligent identification techniques.
