This book was developed from lectures held at RWTH Aachen University, Germany
and Tsinghua University at Beijing, P.R. China. It may be used as a basis for similar
lectures on designing of microsystems. For this purpose, it is recommended to
follow the sequence of this book, because it is arranged such that following chapters
are...
John Bird's approach to mathematics, based on numerous worked examples supported by problems, is ideal for students of a wide range of abilities. Theory is kept to a minimum, with the emphasis firmly placed on problem-solving skills, making this a thoroughly practical introduction to the mathematics engineering students need to...
This book includes a collection of chapters on the state of art in the area of intelligent machines. This research would provide a sound basis to make autonomous systems human-like.
The contributions include: an introduction to intelligent machines; supervisory control of multiple UAVs; intelligent autonomous UAV task allocation;...
FOCUSING ON CONTAMINANT FATE AND TRANSPORT, DESIGN OF ENVIRONMENTAL-CONTROL SYSTEMS, AND REGULATORY CONSTRAINTS
This textbook details the fundamental equations that describe the fate and transport of contaminantsin the water environment. The application of these fundamental equations to the design of environmental-control...
Continuing advances in biomedical research and statistical methods call for a constant stream of updated, cohesive accounts of new developments so that the methodologies can be properly implemented in the biomedical field. Responding to this need, Computational Methods in Biomedical Research explores important current and emerging...
We are entering a new era in production agronomics. Agricultural scientists the world over call for the development of techniques that simultaneously increase soil carbon storage and reduce agriculture’s energy use. In response, site-specific or precision agriculture has become the focus and direction for the three motivating forces...
Incorporating intelligence in industrial systems can help to increase productivity, cut-off production costs, and to improve working conditions and safety in industrial environments. This need has resulted in the rapid development of modeling and control methods for industrial systems and robots, of fault detection and isolation methods for...
This textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the concepts and idea of multisensor data fusion.
It is an extensively revised second edition of the author's successful book: "Multi-Sensor Data Fusion:
An Introduction" which was originally published by Springer-Verlag in 2007.
The main changes in...
This text deals with signal processing as an important aspect of electronic communications in its role of transmitting information, and the language of its expression. It develops the required mathematics in an interesting and informative way, leading to confidence on the part of the reader. The first part of the book focuses on continuous-time...
Explosive growth in the size of spatial databases has highlighted the need for spatial
data analysis and spatial data mining techniques to mine the interesting but implicit
spatial patterns within these large databases. Extracting useful and interesting patterns
from massive geo-spatial datasets is important for many application...
This monograph presents new model-based design methods for trajectory planning, feedback stabilization, state estimation, and tracking control of distributed-parameter systems governed by partial differential equations (PDEs). Flatness and backstepping techniques and their generalization to PDEs with higher-dimensional spatial domain lie at...
Practical OpenCV is a hands-on project book that shows you how to get the best results from OpenCV, the open-source computer vision library.
Computer vision is key to technologies like object recognition, shape detection, and depth estimation. OpenCV is an open-source library with over 2500 algorithms that you...