The Vacuum Interrupter
The book begins by discussing the design requirements for high voltage vacuum interrupters and then the contact requirements to interrupt the vacuum arc. It then continues by describing the various applications in which the vacuum interrupter is generally utilized.
Observer Design for Nonlinear Dynamical Systems
This book presents a differential geometric method for designing nonlinear observers for multiple types of nonlinear systems, including single and multiple outputs, fully and partially observable systems, and regular and singular dynamical systems. It is an exposition of achievements in nonlinear observer normal forms. The book begins by discussing linear systems, introducing the concept of observability and observer design, and then explains the difficulty of those problems for nonlinear systems. After providing foundational information on the differential geometric method, the text shows how to use the method to address observer design problems. It presents methods for a variety of systems. The authors employ worked examples to illustrate the ideas presented. Observer Design for Nonlinear Dynamical Systems will be of interest to researchers, graduate students, and industrial professionals working with control of mechanical and dynamical systems.
Differential Drive Robots
This book, Differential Drive Robots, A Primer for College Students, is aimed at introductory robotics courses in Universities and Colleges. It introduces the theory of robotic kinematics, a discussion of robot control architectures, sensors, navigation, and robot vision. It is based on a standard two-wheel differential drive robot system and is therefore applicable to many commercial and in-house robot kits. The material is informed by contemporary robot technology.All software described in the book is non-commercial and freely downloadable from the internet.The book emerged from the author's teaching a second year University robotics course. It contains a mix of theory, examples, and suggestions for computer code. Learning and teaching resources which accompany the book chapters are freely available from the author, details for which are in the book. This book forms part of a series 'Breakfast with Dr.C' that started when he was teaching at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium.The author is currently Principal Lecturer Computing at the University of Worcester (UK) where he has been teaching for some twenty years. Prior to that he taught Physics at the Catholic Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. He is the author of over seventy academic journal and conference publications in computing, game design, and physics. His most recent work involved teaching elementary children to code using animated stories (Story Writing Coding).
Unity in Embedded System Design and Robotics
Unity in Embedded System Design and Robotics is the first of its kind and provides a step-by-step guide to Unity for embedded system design and robotics. It is an open gateway for anyone who wants to learn Unity through real projects and examples and will be a particularly useful aid for both professionals and students in the field.
Smart Microgrids
This book addresses the need to understand the development, use, construction and operation of Smart Micro Grids (SMG).Covering selected major operations of SMG like dynamic energy management, demand response, demand dispatch, etc., it covers design and operational challenges of different microgrids with providing feasible solutions for system.
Emerging Low-Power Semiconductor Devices
This book will give insight into the emerging semiconductor devices from their applications in electronic circuits. This book discusses the challenges in the field of engineering and applications of advanced low-power devices.
Virtual Power Plant Solution for Future Smart Energy Communities
This book provides an overview of virtual power plants as a key technology in future energy communities and active distribution and transmission networks for managing distributed energy resources, providing local and global services, and facilitating market participation of small-scale managing distributed energy resources, and prosumers.
VLSI Circuits and Embedded Systems
This book explores the designs of VLSI circuits and embedded systems. As a whole, core researchers, academicians, and students will get the complete picture of VLSI Circuits and Embedded Systems and their applications.
Smart Electrical Grid System
Smart technologies such as artificial intelligence, and machine learning plays a vital role in modeling, analysis, performance prediction, effective control, and utilization of smart energy systems. This text discusses grid integration of renewable energy resources, and the challenges to reduce the losses incurred with efficient power transmission.
Design of Network Coding Schemes in Wireless Networks
This book provides a consolidated view of the various network coding techniques to be implemented at the design of the wireless networks for improving its overall performance. It covers multiple sources communicating with multiple destinations via a common relay followed by network coded modulation schemes for multiple access relay channels.
Rapid Damage-Free Robotic Harvesting of Tomatoes
This book shares the latest findings on this topic, systematically introduces readers to advances made in robotic harvesting around the globe, and explores the relations between the development of robotic harvesting and the respective social/economic conditions and agricultural business patterns in various countries/regions. Due to the unstructured setting it is used in, and to the significant differences between individual fruit and vegetable targets, robotic harvesting is currently considered to be one of the most challenging robotics technologies. Accordingly, research into this area involves the integration of various aspects, including biomechanics, optimization design, advanced perception and intelligent control. In addition to rapid and damage-free robotic harvesting, which reflects the multidisciplinary nature of the topic, further aspects addressed include gripping collisions with viscoelastic objects, using lasers to cut plant material, plant-fruit response to vacuum sucking and pulling, and performance probability distribution. Highlighting outstanding innovations and reflecting the latest advances in intelligent agricultural equipment in China, the book offers a unique and valuable resource.
Rotation Sensing with Large Ring Lasers
Ring lasers are commonly used as gyroscopes for aircraft navigation and attitude control. The largest ring lasers are sensitive enough that they can be used for high resolution inertial rotation sensing of the Earth in order to detect tiny perturbations to the Earth's rotation caused by earthquakes or global mass transport. This book describes the latest advances in the development of large ring lasers for applications in geodesy and geophysics using the most sensitive and stable devices available. Chapters cover our current knowledge of the physics of the laser gyroscope, how to acquire and analyse data from ring lasers, and what the potential applications are in the geosciences. It is a valuable reference for those working with ring lasers or using the data for applications in geodesy and geophysics; as well as researchers in laser physics, photonics and navigation.
Augment It
Do you want to increase efficiency and productivity to meet demand, but find you're struggling with low budget and resources?As a manager or executive working in the architecture, engineering, and construction industry, you're under pressure to do more with less, reduce waste, produce faster, AND still turn a profit.The solution?In the past, technology has helped AEC companies to gain efficiency and become more productive. Artificial intelligence is one of the most under-utilized emerging technologies in the AEC industry, but when understood and used correctly, it improves efficiency, empowers creativity, and improves bottom-line results.There is a lot of misleading and confusing information out there about AI, and none specific to the AEC industry - until now. Unlike other, more technical or generic books, Augment It is written for you, the AEC professional.You will learn: what AI is and what it can and cannot dowhat data is and how it can help your organizationhow to find a good AI problem with a high ROI how to plan and execute your first AI projecthow to build and scale AI projects in your company how to define your AI strategyAugment It also provides case studies of how AI is being used in businesses today. By implementing the techniques explained in this book, you - and your organization - will become an industry innovator with a sustainable and profitable future.
Kinetic Studies in GeO2/Ge System
This title investigates reaction kinetics in GeO2/Ge systems, aiming to demonstrate the fundamentals of the GeO2/Ge interface and to give insight into the distinctive features and performance of Ge (germanium) applied to advanced complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) devices.
Wearable Solar Cell Systems
Wearable Solar Cell Systems looks at possibilities for supporting the energy demand of these devices without the need to return to the dreaded wall outlet for recharging.
Transmission of Electrical Energy
This book aims to introduce alternating current power transmission, deep enough to provide undergraduate and graduate students in electrical engineering at various higher education institutions with a solid theoretical background on the subject, specifically for students wishing to pursue their studies in electrical power systems.
Digital Signal Processing
This book provides an excellent cover of discrete-time signals and systems. All principles presented in a lucid, logical, step-by-step approach. As much as possible, the authors avoid wordiness and detail overload that could hide concepts and impede understanding.
An Introduction to Signal Processing for Non-Engineers
This introduces the basic concepts of signal processing and puts more emphasis on visual illustration to provide an intuitive comprehension of the concepts and methods.
Electrical Machine Drives
This work was developed based on the author's experience of more than 10 years working in research and industry in the areas of electrical drives and industrial automation. The author presents a detailed conceptual description with lots of figures and illustrative examples that harmonize the theoretical approach with the practice.
Blockchain Applications in IoT Ecosystem
This book focuses on the fundamentals of blockchain technology along with the means and methods of its integration with Internet of Things (IoT). The book allows the reader to have a deeper understanding of blockchain technology, IoT and various application areas wherein both technologies can be implemented. The book serves the purpose of providing knowledge about the fundamentals of blockchain and IoT to a common reader along with allowing a research scholar to identify some futuristic problem areas that emerge from the convergence of both technologies. Furthermore, the authors discuss relevant application areas such as smart city, e-healthcare, smart travel, etc. throughout the course of the book. The book also talks through a few case studies illustrating the implementation and benefits of using blockchain and IoT. Provides a comprehensive view of blockchain technology and its integration with IoT;Facilitates in having a valuable understanding of various application areas pertaining to blockchain and IoT;Assists the reader in exploring new research areas wherein blockchain and IoT can find their applicability based upon their list of benefits.
Computational Electromagnetics with Matlab, Fourth Edition
The book reflects the improvements made to the standard algorithm for the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method and treatment of absorbing boundary conditions in FDTD, finite element, and transmission-line-matrix methods. It explains how to pose, numerically analyze, and solve EM problems to prepare readers for research in electromagn
Harmonic Generation Effects Propagation and Control
The book provides coverage of generation, effects, and control of harmonics, including interharmonics, measurements, and harmonic resonance and limitations. It explores the concepts of modeling filter designs and harmonic penetrations (propagations) in industrial, distribution, and transmission systems with SVC's and FACTS controller applic
Transformer Design Principles, Third Edition
The third edition presents new developments, including losses in tank walls and a simpler method to calculate temperatures and flows in directed flow windings, and a chapter on optimization to achieve a low cost transformer design. The book includes a section on correcting the linear impedance boundary method for non-linear materials.
Compressed Sensing for Engineers
The first portion of the book is on the algorithms. The second portion of the book is about applications, covering some of the major areas like computational imaging, medical imaging, biomedical signal processing and machine learning. The concentration of this book is on algorithms and applications.
Multi-Agent Systems
Multi-Agent Systems: Platoon Control and Non-Fragile Quantized Consensus aims to present recent research results in designing platoon control and non-fragile quantized consensus for multi-agent systems. It investigates the platoon control issue by combining SMC technique with neural network and fuzzy logic system approximation methods.
Linear Discrete-Time Systems
This book shows the completion of the theory of the linear discrete-time time-invariant dynamical systems.The reader will also gain knowledge of discovered fundamental dynamical characteristic of the systems, the full transfer function matrix F(z), definitions and determinations, for three classes of the systems, IO, ISO and IIO
Discrete-Time Recurrent Neural Control
The book presents recent advances in the theory of neural control for discrete-time nonlinear systems with multiple inputs and multiple outputs. It provides solutions for the output trajectory tracking problem of unknown nonlinear systems based on sliding modes and inverse optimal control scheme.
Switched Reluctance Motor Drives
This is a comprehensive textbook covering major aspects of switched reluctance motor drives in detail. It also provides a macroscopic view of the use of electric motors in different sectors to explore the role of SRM in industry.
Emerging Green Technologies
This book provides researchers, students, and professionals a comprehensive introduction, applications, benefits, and challenges for fifteen emerging green technologies. It presents the impact of these cutting-edge technologies on our global economy and its future.
Terahertz Antenna Technology for Imaging and Sensing Applications
This book covers terahertz antenna technology for imaging and sensing, along with its various applications. The authors discuss the use of terahertz frequency and photoconductive antenna technology for imaging applications, such as biological and bio-medical applications, non-destructive inspection of fabrics and plastics, analysis of hydration levels or detecting the presence of metallic components in samples, and detecting a variety of materials with unique spectral fingerprints in the terahertz frequency range, such as different types of explosives or several compounds used in the fabrication of medicines.Provides a comprehensive review of terahertz source and detector for imaging and sensing;Discusses photoconductive antenna technology for imaging and sensing;Presents modalities for improving the photoconductive dipole antenna performance for imaging and sensing;Explores applications in tomographic imaging, art conservation and the pharmaceutical and aerospace industries.
Electrical Installation Calculations
This new edition gives ring final circuit calculations, test procedures and interpretation of results, testing of 3 phase motors, risk level calculations for surge protection, and updated PV calculations to include self consumption. For Level 3 courses, updated with the 18th Edition of the Wiring Regs.
Electrical Installation Calculations
In line with the 18th Edition of the Wiring Regulations, it now gives a worked example of resistivity and more on disconnection times for fuses and circuit breakers. For foundation level electrical installation courses, and essential calculations for professionals, with a glossary section, worked examples and questions and answers.
Towards Optimal Point Cloud Processing for 3D Reconstruction
This SpringerBrief presents novel methods of approaching challenging problems in the reconstruction of accurate 3D models and serves as an introduction for further 3D reconstruction methods. It develops a 3D reconstruction system that produces accurate results by cascading multiple novel loop detection, sifting, and optimization methods.The authors offer a fast point cloud registration method that utilizes optimized randomness in random sample consensus for surface loop detection. The text also proposes two methods for surface-loop sifting. One is supported by a sparse-feature-based optimization graph. This graph is more robust to different scan patterns than earlier methods and can cope with tracking failure and recovery. The other is an offline algorithm that can sift loop detections based on their impact on loop optimization results and which is enabled by a dense map posterior metric for 3D reconstruction and mapping performance evaluation works without any costly ground-truth data. The methods presented in Towards Optimal Point Cloud Processing for 3D Reconstruction will be of assistance to researchers developing 3D modelling methods and to workers in the wide variety of fields that exploit such technology including metrology, geological animation and mass customization in smart manufacturing.
Bionic Gliding Underwater Robots
Underwater robots play a significant role in ocean exploration. This book provides full coverage of the theoretical and practical aspects of bionic gliding underwater robots, including system design, modeling control and motion planning.
Complex Systems: Spanning Control and Computational Cybernetics: Applications
Sensor/Data Fusion for Control of Aerospace Robots.- Robotic Dance Modeling Methods.- A Review of Fuzzy Metaheuristics for Optimal Design of Fuzzy Controllers in Mobile Robotics.- Time Series Prediction Using Time-Series De-Composition and Multi-Reservoirs Echo State Network.- A Proposal for Improving Remaining Useful Life Prediction in Industrial Systems: A Deep Learning Approach.- Fault Diagnosis/Fault-Tolerant Control: A Survey of Results for Linear Systems over Frequency Region in Presence of Disturbances.- New Interval Observer-based Fault Detection for Switched Systems.
VLSI Physical Design: From Graph Partitioning to Timing Closure
The complexity of modern chip design requires extensive use of specialized software throughout the process. To achieve the best results, a user of this software needs a high-level understanding of the underlying mathematical models and algorithms. In addition, a developer of such software must have a keen understanding of relevant computer science aspects, including algorithmic performance bottlenecks and how various algorithms operate and interact. This book introduces and compares the fundamental algorithms that are used during the IC physical design phase, wherein a geometric chip layout is produced starting from an abstract circuit design. This updated second edition includes recent advancements in the state-of-the-art of physical design, and builds upon foundational coverage of essential and fundamental techniques. Numerous examples and tasks with solutions increase the clarity of presentation and facilitate deeper understanding. A comprehensive set of slides is available on the Internet for each chapter, simplifying use of the book in instructional settings."This improved, second edition of the book will continue to serve the EDA and design community well. It is a foundational text and reference for the next generation of professionals who will be called on to continue the advancement of our chip design tools and design the most advanced micro-electronics." Dr. Leon Stok, Vice President, Electronic Design Automation, IBM Systems Group"This is the book I wish I had when I taught EDA in the past, and the one I'm using from now on." Dr. Louis K. Scheffer, Howard Hughes Medical Institute"I would happily use this book when teaching Physical Design. I know of no other work that's as comprehensive and up-to-date, with algorithmic focus and clear pseudocode for the key algorithms. The book is beautifully designed!"Prof. John P. Hayes, University of Michigan"The entire field of electronic design automation owes the authors a great debt for providing a single coherent source on physical design that is clear and tutorial in nature, while providing details on key state-of-the-art topics such as timing closure."Prof. Kurt Keutzer, University of California, Berkeley"An excellent balance of the basics and more advanced concepts, presented by top experts in the field." Prof. Sachin Sapatnekar, University of Minnesota
Trends in Circuit Design for Analog Signal Processing
This book discusses new possibilities and trends in analog circuit design, including applications in communication, measurement and RF systems. The authors combine the main features for circuit design with actual circuit realizations and demonstrate several performance limitations with example circuits.
Internet of Things
The book deals with the conceptual and practical knowledge of the latest tools and methodologies of hardware development for Internet of Things and variety of real-world challenges. Several aspects of various hardware technologies, methodologies, and communication protocol are critically examined in this book.
Distributed Coordination Theory for Robot Teams
Distributed Coordination Theory for Robot Teams develops control algorithms to coordinate the motion of autonomous teams of robots in order to achieve some desired collective goal. It provides novel solutions to foundational coordination problems, including distributed algorithms to make quadrotor helicopters rendezvous and to make ground vehicles move in formation along circles or straight lines. The majority of the algorithms presented in this book can be implemented using on-board cameras. The book begins with an introduction to coordination problems, such as rendezvous of flying robots, and modelling. It then provides a solid theoretical background in basic stability, graph theory and control primitives. The book discusses the algorithmic solutions for numerous distributed control problems, focusing primarily on flying robotics and kinematic unicycles. Finally, the book looks to the future, and suggests areas discussed which could be pursued in further research. This book will provide practitioners, researchers and students in the field of control and robotics new insights in distributed multi-agent systems.
Bionic Gliding Underwater Robots
Underwater robots play a significant role in ocean exploration. This book provides full coverage of the theoretical and practical aspects of bionic gliding underwater robots, including system design, modeling control and motion planning.
Process Operational Safety and Cybersecurity
This book is focused on the development of rigorous, yet practical, methods for the design of advanced process control systems to improve process operational safety and cybersecurity for a wide range of nonlinear process systems. Process Operational Safety and Cybersecurity develops designs for novel model predictive control systems accounting for operational safety considerations, presents theoretical analysis on recursive feasibility and simultaneous closed-loop stability and safety, and discusses practical considerations including data-driven modeling of nonlinear processes, characterization of closed-loop stability regions and computational efficiency. The text then shifts focus to the design of integrated detection and model predictive control systems which improve process cybersecurity by efficiently detecting and mitigating the impact of intelligent cyber-attacks. The book explores several key areas relating to operational safety and cybersecurity including: machine-learning-based modeling of nonlinear dynamical systems for model predictive control;a framework for detection and resilient control of sensor cyber-attacks for nonlinear systems; insight into theoretical and practical issues associated with the design of control systems for process operational safety and cybersecurity; and a number of numerical simulations of chemical process examples and Aspen simulations of large-scale chemical process networks of industrial relevance. A basic knowledge of nonlinear system analysis, Lyapunov stability techniques, dynamic optimization, and machine-learning techniques will help readers to understand the methodologies proposed. The book is a valuable resource for academic researchers and graduate students pursuing research in this area as well as for process control engineers.Advances in Industrial Control reportsand encourages the transfer of technology in control engineering. The rapid development of control technology has an impact on all areas of the control discipline. The series offers an opportunity for researchers to present an extended exposition of new work in all aspects of industrial control.
Switched Inductor Power IC Design
This textbook uses design insight, real-life examples, illustrative figures, easy-to-follow equations, and simple SPICE code to show how semiconductor devices (diodes, bipolar-junction transistors (BJTs), and metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) field-effect transistors (FETs) ) work independently and collectively in switched-inductor power supplies; how these power supplies transfer power, consume power, and react and respond across frequency; how feedback loops switch, control, and stabilize them; and how the building blocks that comprise them are implemented and designed. This book is focused and complete, with a holistic approach and perspective on power IC design that extends from semiconductor devices to fully-closed feedback systems. Readers will develop the insight needed to interpret, assess, and design switched inductor power ICs, which almost all electronic systems need, yet no other book addresses this way.
Application and Theory of Petri Nets and Concurrency
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Application and Theory of Petri Nets and Concurrency, PETRI NETS 2022, which was held virtually in June 2021. The 19 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 35 submissions. The papers are categorized into the following topical sub-headings: application of concurrency to system design; timed models; tools; applications; synthesis; petri nets architecture; and process mining.
Control and State Estimation for Dynamical Network Systems with Complex Samplings
This book focusses on the control and state estimation problems for dynamical network systems with complex samplings subject to various network-induced phenomena. It includes a series of control and state estimation problems tackled under the passive sampling fashion, effects from the active sampling fashion with simulation results.
Electric Circuit Analysis with Easyeda
This book explains and focuses on analysis of electric circuits using an up-to-date software package. The book is filled with examples that students will see throughout a standard electric circuit course. This book is a good source to accompany and complete theoretical work of professors. The author provides a single-source for anyone who needs to analyse an electric circuit.
An Introduction to Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning
The domains of Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning have experienced exceptional interest and growth, however the overwhelming number of methods and applications can make the fields seem bewildering. This text offers an accessible and conceptually rich introduction, a solid mathematical development emphasizing simplicity and intuition. Students beginning to explore pattern recognition do not need a suite of mathematically advanced methods or complicated computational libraries to understand and appreciate pattern recognition; rather the fundamental concepts and insights, eminently teachable at the undergraduate level, motivate this text. This book provides methods of analysis that the reader can realistically undertake on their own, supported by real-world examples, case-studies, and worked numerical / computational studies.
