Automation category: 777 books
Probable Tomorrows
How Science and Technology Will Transform Our Lives in the Next Twenty Years
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 1997
A fascinating look at near-future advances, inventions, products, services, and everyday conveniences that will change how we live and work. Marvin Cetron and Owen Davies explore these changes and the impact they will have on everyday life. For example, by the year 2010:
-Personal computers...
Staff-Less Libraries
Innovative Staff Design
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Staff-Less Libraries: Innovative Staff Design considers the challenges of this approach, its pros and cons, identifies international experiences, and discusses best practices. It presents a step-by-step approach to implementing a staffless library and/or services, and seeks to inspire professionals...
Cyber-Physical System Design from an Architecture Analysis Viewpoint
Communications of NII Shonan Meetings
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2017
Providing a wide variety of technologies for ensuring the safety and dependability of cyber-physical systems (CPS), this book offers a comprehensive introduction to the architecture-centric modeling, analysis, and verification of CPS. In particular, it focuses on model driven engineering methods including...
by John Ridley, Dick Pearce
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2006
John Ridley and Dick Pearce, both recognized specialists in machinery safety, guide the reader through the various standards, regulations and best practices relating to the safe design and use of machinery and show which standard is relevant for which type of machine. Safety with Machinery provides...
Iterative Learning Control
An Optimization Paradigm
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2015
This book develops a coherent and quite general theoretical approach to algorithm design for iterative learning control based on the use of operator representations and quadratic optimization concepts including the related ideas of inverse model control and gradient-based design.
Using detailed...
Distributed-Order Dynamic Systems
Stability, Simulation, Applications and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
Distributed-order differential equations, a generalization of fractional calculus, are of increasing importance in many fields of science and engineering from the behaviour of complex dielectric media to the modelling of nonlinear systems.
This Brief will broaden the toolbox available to researchers...
Saab
A short story
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
From a tiny Swedish carmaker, Saab grew into one of the most recognized brands in the auto industry building truly inspired and captivating cars. Under GM umbrella, it entered into a slow but steady decline before going bankrupt in 2011. This book is about the carmaker and its evolution, its people...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2016
This book presents recent advances in space and celestial mechanics, with a focus on the N-body problem and astrodynamics, and explores the development and application of computational techniques in both areas. It highlights the design of space transfers with various modes of propulsion, like solar...
Simulation of ODE/PDE Models with MATLAB®, OCTAVE and SCILAB
Scientific and Engineering Applications
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2014
Simulation of ODE/PDE Models with MATLAB®, OCTAVE and SCILAB shows the reader how to exploit a fuller array of numerical methods for the analysis of complex scientific and engineering systems than is conventionally employed. The book is dedicated to numerical simulation of distributed parameter systems...
Multibody Dynamics
Computational Methods and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
By having its origin in analytical and continuum mechanics, as well as in computer science and applied mathematics, multibody dynamics provides a basis for analysis and virtual prototyping of innovative applications in many fields of contemporary engineering. With the utilization of computational...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Managing technological innovations and related policy and strategy issues have been a central focus of the new millennium. This book series presents an interdisciplinary scholarship and dialogue on the management of innovation and technological change in a global context from a variety of perspectives,...
Progress of Nuclear Safety for Symbiosis and Sustainability
Advanced Digital Instrumentation, Control and Information Systems for Nuclear Power Plants
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
This book introduces advanced methods of computational and information systems allowing readers to better understand the state-of-the-art design and implementation technology needed to maintain and enhance the safe operation of nuclear power plants. The subjects dealt with in the book are (i) Full...
Plug In Electric Vehicles in Smart Grids
Energy Management
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2014
This book highlights the cutting-edge research on energy management within smart grids with significant deployment of Plug-in Electric Vehicles (PEV). These vehicles not only can be a significant electrical power consumer during Grid to Vehicle (G2V) charging mode, they can also be smartly utilized...
by Gideon Halevi
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
The Integrated Manufacturing System (IMS), Group Technology, Numerical Control, and Computer Aided Design (CAD) were four outstanding innovations that were one-time milestones of scientific industrial management. This book describes the expectations and disappointments of the common pitfalls of these...