The thermophotovoltaic (TPV) generation of electricity is based on the direct conversion
of a thermal radiation coming from an emitter at high temperature into electric power
by using photovoltaic (PV) cells. As shown in Figure 1.1 a heat source (generally a
combustion process) is used to heat up an emitter material that converts...
The Marine Corrosion Working Party of the EFC (EFC WP9) organised an
international workshop on the behaviour of copper and aluminium alloys in
natural and treated seawaters during EUROCORR 2004 in Nice (France).
One of the major objectives of this ‘Marine Corrosion Workshop on Copper
and Aluminium Alloys in...
Kalman filtering algorithm gives optimal (linear, unbiased and minimum error-variance) estimates of the unknown state vectors of a linear dynamic-observation system, under the regular conditions such as perfect data information; complete noise statistics; exact linear modelling; ideal will-conditioned matrices in computation and strictly...
In the early 1980s, the problem of acidification was acknowledged on a governmental level in
the Netherlands as posing a major environmental threat. The concern for damage to forests
and ecosystems, and materials and monuments, as well as for acidification of soils and
moorland pools stimulated research and policy development. Acid...
This volume of essays on neural networks and psychopathology is aimed
at an unusually diverse audience. On the one hand, we hope that the
volume will be read by psychiatrists, psychologists, and other clinicians
and researchers interested in psychopathology and its treatment. On the
other hand, we hope that it will be read by...
The rapid changes that have taken place globally on the economic, social and business fronts characterized the 20th century. The magnitude of these changes has formed an extremely complex and unpredictable decision-making framework, which is difficult to model through traditional approaches. The main purpose of this book is to present the...
To tackle the complex problems of life today, we need to coordinate a wide range of expertise. Systems concepts and methods offer the means of integrating the contributions of specialists, including managers, scientists and engineers. The book introduces simple yet sound concepts and a language understandable to all concerned. Its methods of...
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...
Foundations of Fuzzy Control: A Practical Approach, 2nd Edition has been significantly revised and updated, with two new chapters on Gain Scheduling Control and Neurofuzzy Modelling. It focuses on the PID (Proportional, Integral, Derivative) type controller which is the most widely used in industry and systematically analyses several...
In the context of systems and control, incomplete information refers to a dynamical system in which knowledge about the system states is limited due to the difficulties in modelling complexity in a quantitative way. The well-known types of incomplete information include parameter uncertainties and norm-bounded nonlinearities. Recently, in...
This really is the golden age of Mathematics. It has been said that half
the Mathematics ever created has been in the last 100 years and that half
the mathematicians who have ever lived are alive today. We have seen such
achievements as the resolution of the four-colour problem and Fermat's
last theorem, with the latter being...
Driven by demand from the entertainment industry for better and more realistic animation, technology continues to evolve and improve. The algorithms and techniques behind this technology are the foundation of this comprehensive book, which is written to teach you the fundamentals of animation programming.
