Springer imprint: 58640 books
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Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2015
This book presents a selection of conference contributions from CARO’13 (Conference on Aerospace Robotics), which was held in Warsaw from July 1 to 3, 2013. It presents the most important and crucial problems of space automation in context of future exploration programs. These programs could involve...
Motion Coordination for VTOL Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Attitude Synchronisation and Formation Control
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2013
Motion Coordination for VTOL Unmanned Aerial Vehicles develops new control design techniques for the distributed coordination of a team of autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles. In particular, it provides new control design approaches for the attitude synchronization of a formation of rigid body systems....
by Hao Yang, Vincent Cocquempot, Bin Jiang
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2014
This book provides its reader with a good understanding of the stabilization of switched nonlinear systems (SNS), systems that are of practical use in diverse situations: design of fault-tolerant systems in space- and aircraft; traffic control; and heat propagation control of semiconductor power chips....
by Guowei Cai, Ben M. Chen, Tong Heng Lee
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Unmanned Rotorcraft Systems explores the research and development of fully-functional miniature UAV (unmanned aerial vehicle) rotorcraft, and provides a complete treatment of the design of autonomous miniature rotorcraft UAVs. The unmanned system is an integration of advanced technologies developed...
Cooperative Control of Multi-Agent Systems
Optimal and Adaptive Design Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
Cooperative Control of Multi-Agent Systems extends optimal control and adaptive control design methods to multi-agent systems on communication graphs. It develops Riccati design techniques for general linear dynamics for cooperative state feedback design, cooperative observer design, and cooperative...
by C.A. Rabbath, N. Léchevin
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
This unique book provides a bridge between digital control theory and vehicle guidance and control practice. It presents practical techniques of digital redesign and direct discrete-time design suitable for a real-time implementation of controllers and guidance laws at multiple rates and with and...
Wildlife Tourism, Environmental Learning and Ethical Encounters
Ecological and Conservation Aspects
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
This book outlines the status quo of worldwide wildlife tourism and its impacts on planning, management, knowledge, awareness, behaviour and attitudes related to wildlife encounters. It sets out to fill the considerable gaps in our knowledge on wildlife tourism, applied ecology, and environmental...
Exhibit Marketing and Trade Show Intelligence
Successful Boothmanship and Booth Design
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2013
"Exhibition organizers and venue managers must have a thorough knowledge of their customers and they must be very close to the industries they serve. We must react rapidly to their changing needs and even be ahead of the curve in providing the tools and services which they’ll need to successfully...
Freedom 7
The Historic Flight of Alan B. Shepard, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
Inevitably, there are times in a nation’s history when its hopes, fears and confidence in its own destiny appear to hinge on the fate of a single person. One of these pivotal moments occurred on the early morning of May 5, 1961, when a 37-year-old test pilot squeezed himself into the confines...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Chinese law places significant obligations on employers to remain legally compliant in all labor matters. In this guide, we address the major issues in managing employment relationships in China.
Including:
Recruiting Professionals
Hiring Staff
Handling Payroll
Managing the Employment...
Management in Latin America
Threats and Opportunities in the Globalized World
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
The aim of this book is to analyze the quality of entrepreneurial management and economic development in the Latin American region from a microeconomic point of view. It seeks to explain the Latin American way of business management as well as envision ways in which Latin American businesses can increase...
Social Work Leaders Through History
Lives and Lessons
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2018
Vividly portraying the personal and professional lives of social work luminaries from the 19th to the present century, this text links their groundbreaking contributions in social work to current CSWE core competencies. The book focuses on leaders who shaped the field across modern American history...
Nursing's Greatest Leaders
A History of Activism
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
With an emphasis on the qualities that have fostered strong nursing leadership, this book provides a unique perspective on the lives and achievements of the most revered nurses throughout history. It is comprised of biographies of many of nursing’s most important activist agents of change, with...
An Archaeology of Social Space
Analyzing Coffee Plantations in Jamaica’s Blue Mountains
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
James Delle has solved a number of problems in Caribbean archaeology with An Archaeology of Social Space. He deals with most of the problems by using historical archaeology, and clearly implicates Ameri canist prehistorians. Although this book is about coffee plantations in the Blue Mountains area...