Automation category: 777 books
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Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2018
The field of mechatronics (which is the synergistic combination of precision mechanical engineering, electronic control and systems thinking in the design of products and manufacturing processes) is gaining much attention in industries and academics. It was detected that the topics of computer vision,...
Neuro-Robotics
From Brain Machine Interfaces to Rehabilitation Robotics
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Neuro-robotics is one of the most multidisciplinary fields of the last decades, fusing information and knowledge from neuroscience, engineering and computer science. This book focuses on the results from the strategic alliance between Neuroscience and Robotics that help the scientific community to...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
Advanced Mechatronics and MEMS Devicesdescribes state-of-the-art MEMS devices and introduces the latest technology in electrical and mechanical microsystems. The evolution of design in microfabrication, as well as emerging issues in nanomaterials, micromachining, micromanufacturing and microassembly...
Human and Robot Hands
Sensorimotor Synergies to Bridge the Gap Between Neuroscience and Robotics
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
This book looks at the common problems both human and robotic hands encounter when controlling the large number of joints, actuators and sensors required to efficiently perform motor tasks such as object exploration, manipulation and grasping. The authors adopt an integrated approach to explore the...
by Alessandro Altobelli
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
This book presents a new set of devices for accurate investigation of human finger stiffness and force distribution in grasping tasks. The ambitious goal of this research is twofold, the first is to advance the state of the art on human strategies in manipulation tasks and provide tools to assess...
A World with Robots
International Conference on Robot Ethics: ICRE 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2017
This book contains the Proceedings of the International Conference on Robot Ethics, held in Lisbon on October 23 and 24, 2015. The conference provided a multidisciplinary forum for discussing central and evolving issues concerning safety and ethics that have arisen in various contexts where robotic...
by Timm Gudehus, Herbert Kotzab
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Modern logistics comprises operative logistics, analytical logistics and management of logistic networks. Central task of operative logistics is the efficient supply of required goods at the right place within the right time. Tasks of analytical logistics are designing optimal networks and systems,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Current robots and other artificial systems are typically able to accomplish only one single task. Overcoming this limitation requires the development of control architectures and learning algorithms that can support the acquisition and deployment of several different skills, which in turn seems to...
by Laura Menini, Antonio Tornambè
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
This book details the analysis of continuous- and discrete-time dynamical systems described by differential and difference equations respectively. Differential geometry provides the tools for this, such as first-integrals or orbital symmetries, together with normal forms of vector fields and of maps....
by Pedro Furtado, José Cecílio
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
This book introduces the fundamentals of DCS, and shows how to include wireless technology in their design while guaranteeing the desired operation characteristics. The text also presents insights and results gained from extensive practical experience in implementing and testing systems within a specific...
by Dipesh H. Shah, Axaykumar Mehta
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
This book presents novel algorithms for designing Discrete-Time Sliding Mode Controllers (DSMCs) for Networked Control Systems (NCSs) with both types of fractional delays namely deterministic delay and random delay along with different packet loss conditions such as single packet loss and multiple...
Complex Systems Design & Management
Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Complex Systems Design & Management, CSD&M Paris 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
This book contains all refereed papers that were accepted to the seventh edition of the international conference « Complex Systems Design & Management Paris» (CSD&M Paris 2016) which took place in Paris (France) on the December 13-14, 2016
These proceedings cover the most recent...
by Cheng-ke Zhang, Huai-nian Zhu, Hai-ying Zhou
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2016
This book systematically studies the stochastic non-cooperative differential game theory of generalized linear Markov jump systems and its application in the field of finance and insurance. The book is an in-depth research book of the continuous time and discrete time linear quadratic stochastic differential...
Control of Fuel Cell Power Systems
Principles, Modeling, Analysis and Feedback Design
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Presenting the latest research in the control of fuel cell technology, this book will contribute to the commercial viability of the technology. The authors’ background in automotive technology gives the work added authority as a vital element of future planning.