Digital Control Engineering

Examines the use of newly developed analytical tools such as fuzzy logic, neural networks, simulation, and Bayesian techniques for studying uncertainty analysis in engineering, control systems, and th

This book joins the multitude of Control Systems books now available, but is neither a textbook nor a monograph. Rather it may be described as a resource book or survey of the elements/essentials of f

This book is the proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Autonomous Remanufacturing (IWAR 2024) and contains contributions from innovators in autonomous remanufacturing to strengthen the body of knowledge on design, modelling and control of remanufacturing processes and systems. Remanufacturing has been identified as having significant financial and environment benefits; however, critical challenges still remain in designing and operating remanufacturing processes and systems. These challenges are complex, spanning all product life cycles and encompassing multiple disciplines within and outside of engineering. In particular, the book showcases the work of experts on reverse logistics optimization, designing products for disassembly, and advancements in remanufacturing automation. These topics are currently at the forefront of discussions among leading industries and researchers.

STOP LETTING EVERYTHING AFFECT YOU is a transformative guide for anyone who overthinks every interaction, gets stuck in emotional chaos, and finds themselves trapped in cycles of self-sabotage. With raw honesty and practical wisdom, Daniel Chidiac reveals why small things ruin your entire day and offers proven strategies to finally break free.This book will teach you how to: Stop letting little things ruin your entire day.Stop self-sabotaging.Set healthy boundaries without feeling guilty.Recognize the difference between real guilt and manipulation.Break the cycle of overthinking before it spirals out of control.Stop taking everything so personally and free yourself from emotional reactivity.Identify toxic patterns in relationships and walk away without regret.Be more in control and feel better everyday.Shift your mindset from victimhood to self-empowerment.Learn the art of emotional detachment-how to be unbothered without becoming cold.Move forward unapologetically, without feeling the

Discover the amazing secrets of the science of physics - full of wacky characters and weird concepts, but often seeming daunting and unapproachable. From Gravity, the ultimate mover and shaker, to Higgs Boson, who's been playing hide and seek for fifty years, this book introduces you to a wild community of characters who control the universe. Basher's highly original books make difficult concepts tangible, understandable and even lovable. With his stylish, contemporary characters he communicates science brilliantly. Discover and learn more with the Basher Science series, including: Chemistry, Biology and Engineering.

This book includes the probability of events, discrete random variables and their distribution, continuous random variables and their distribution, digital characteristics of random variables, law of large numbers and central limit theorem, sampling distribution, parameter estimation and hypothesis testing.All of the authors of this book have the background of visiting British and American university. The writing language is easy to understand, and the content has moderate difficulty.This book can be used for the teaching of probability and statistics courses of Sino-foreign cooperation projects and foreign student programs in universities of science and engineering (non-mathematics majors), as well as bilingual teaching of probability and statistics.本書內容包括事件的概率、離散型隨機變量及其分佈、連續型隨機變量及其分佈、隨機變量的數字特徵、大數定律與中心極限定理、抽樣分佈、參數估計和假設檢驗。本書編著者均有英美訪學背景，英文語言簡單易懂，寫作簡約，內容難易適中，便於學習。本書可供理工科大學(非數學專業)中外合作辦學項目和留

本書是為了提高化工技術類專業學生化工英語信息獲取能力和應用能力，培養與職業能力結構要求相一致的高素質技術技能型人才而編寫的。全書選文均來自原版化工英文文獻，側重化工實際工藝及技術操作，覆蓋面廣、難度適中。內容包括化工專業英語基礎(Unit One Basis of English for Chemical Engineering and Technology)、石油化學工業(Unit Two Petrochemical Industry)、聚合物化學(Unit Three Polymer Chemistry)、安全工程(Unit Four Safety Engineering)、化學工程技術(Unit Five Chemical Engineering and Technology)、精細化學品(Unit Six Fine Chemicals)、分析化學(Analytical Chemistry)、 生物化工(Unit Eight Biochemical Engineering)、環境污染及治理(Unit Nine Environmental Pollution and Control)。其中“化工專業英語基礎”部分，對提高讀者化工專業英語的閱讀、會話和寫作能力有很高的實用價值。本書可作為化工類專業高等職業院校學生的教材，也可作為化工領域廣大科技人員的參考書。

A thoroughly updated new edition of the foundational reference on veterinary anesthesia and analgesia Veterinary Anesthesia and Analgesia: The Sixth Edition of Lumb and Jones is a fully updated revision to this comprehensive, authoritative reference to all aspects of veterinary anesthesia and pain management. Encompassing both scientific principles and clinical applications, the new edition adds new knowledge, techniques, and discussion of emerging issues throughout. Fourteen new chapters significantly expand the coverage of patient monitoring modalities and nociception and pain, while presenting new information on safety culture, infection prevention and control, biomedical engineering, and point-of-care ultrasound. Logically organized into sections, information on basic principles, pharmacology, specific body systems, and specific species is easy to access. Comparative anesthetic considerations for dogs and cats, horses, ruminants, swine, laboratory animals, free-ranging terrestrial

數字化是智能製造的基礎。本書是為了滿足智能製造對設計表達的數字化要求，根據現行的《技術製圖》和《機械製圖》國家標準編寫而成的。本書吸收高等職業教育工程製圖多年教學改革的經驗，對傳統教學內容進行了必要增減和優化整合，根據工作過程系統化和創新能力培養要求，將教學內容劃分為7章，分別是產品設計與表達、計算機繪圖、製圖基礎、機械製圖標準、常用機件及結構要素的表示、零件圖的識讀與繪製、裝配圖的識讀與繪製。本書以培養學生的讀圖能力、數字化表達能力和創新能力為目標，提供大量帶尺寸的立體圖，有利於將知識的學習和技能的訓練融為一體，實現學習和練習一體化、教材和習題集一體化，並通過在線開放課程網站提供補充習題，以滿足不同學生、不同學校的需要。Digitalization is the foundation of intelligent manufacturing. According to the current edition of Technical Drawings and Mechanical Drawings by national standard, this book aims to meet the digital requirements of intelligent manufacturing for design expression by utilizing experiences of higher vocational education educational reforms of Engineering Drawing. This book makes necessary adjustments and improvements to traditional teaching contents of mechanical drawing. To reflect and satisfy the requirements of systematic work process and innovative ability cultivation, this book divides its learning materials into seven chapters: product design and expression, computer graphi

This volume details cutting-edge methods that enables engineering of novel functions in mammalian cells. Chapters guide readers through cell-to-cell communication, cell fate control, protein and RNA-based biosensors together with tools for more reliable and faster mammalian genome editing. Written in the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology series format, chapters include introductions to their respective topics, lists of the necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step, readily reproducible laboratory protocols, and key tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls. Authoritative and cutting-edge, Mammalian Synthetic Systems aims to ensure successful results in the further study of this vital field.

當馬斯克收購推特後，一連串裁員、改制與言論爭議接連發生。本書透過深入採訪推特內部成員，還原這段令人震驚的轉變過程。這不只是關於一家公司如何被改寫，更是關於一個人如何用意志與資本改變全球數位社群的故事。"Schiffer offers a detailed look under the smoke-filled hood... deploying a crisp, matter-of-fact style to excellent effect." — The New York Times"A sharp and deeply sourced fly-on-the-wall account... packed with original reporting." — Financial TimesBefore he conceived of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), Elon Musk flexed his control and influence during his unprecedented, $44 billion buyout of Twitter. This is the stunning true story of how Musk managed to upend the world's largest free speech platform through sheer, unilateral force—and what that means for the protection of power in the modern age.When Elon wrested the app formerly known as Twitter out of the hands of its investors in 2023, his goals for what was previously known as the world’s digital town square were rooted in his fervent belief in the necessity of making Twitter friendlier to free speech. "I didn’t do

A comprehensive introduction to the field of autonomous robotics aimed at upper-level undergraduates and offering additional online resources.Textbooks that provide a broad algorithmic perspective on the mechanics and dynamics of robots almost unfailingly serve students at the graduate level. Introduction to Autonomous Robots offers a much-needed resource for teaching third- and fourth-year undergraduates the computational fundamentals behind the design and control of autonomous robots. The authors use a class-tested and accessible approach to present progressive, step-by-step development concepts, alongside a wide range of real-world examples and fundamental concepts in mechanisms, sensing and actuation, computation, and uncertainty. Throughout, the authors balance the impact of hardware (mechanism, sensor, actuator) and software (algorithms) in teaching robot autonomy. Features:Rigorous and tested in the classroomWritten for engineering and computer science undergraduates with a soph

A cognitive ethnography of how bioengineering scientists create innovative modeling methods.In this first full-scale, long-term cognitive ethnography by a philosopher of science, Nancy J. Nersessian offers an account of how scientists at the interdisciplinary frontiers of bioengineering create novel problem-solving methods. Bioengineering scientists model complex dynamical biological systems using concepts, methods, materials, and other resources drawn primarily from engineering. They aim to understand these systems sufficiently to control or intervene in them. What Nersessian examines here is how cutting-edge bioengineering scientists integrate the cognitive, social, material, and cultural dimensions of practice. Her findings and conclusions have broad implications for researchers in philosophy, science studies, cognitive science, and interdisciplinary studies, as well as scientists, educators, policy makers, and funding agencies. In studying the epistemic practices of scientists, Ner

This book analyses the phenomenon of digitally mediated property and considers how it problematises the boundary between human and nonhuman actors. The book addresses the increasingly porous border between personhood and property in digitized settings and considers how the increased commodification of knowledge makes visible a rupture in the liberal concept of the property owning, free, person. Engaging with the latest work in posthumanist and new materialist theory, it shows, how property as a concept as well as a means for control, changes fundamentally under advanced capitalism.Such change is exemplified by the way in which data, as an object of commodification, is extracted from human activities yet is also directly used to affectively control - or nudge - humans. Taking up a range of human engagements with digital platforms and coded architectures, as well as the circulation of affects through practices of artificial intelligence that are employed to shape behaviour, the book argu

Unmanned ships and autonomous ships are quickly becoming a reality, making shipping safer and more efficient. However, traditional tasks and functions are becoming blurred as new technology changes how the unique needs of different sectors are met. In addition to large vessels dedicated to the transport of goods and cargos across the oceans, major efforts are underway towards the automation of small coastal shipping that includes ferries, tugboats, supply and service vessels, and barges. Automated vehicles are also replacing conventional ships for inspecting and servicing pipelines, drilling platforms, wind farms and other offshore installations. Automated shipping is explored in terms of economics, technology, safety and the environment under the broad themes of ship design and engineering, command and control, navigation, communications, security, regulatory issues, and training. This includes initiatives for autonomous shipping as well as civilian implications of military ship autom

Presenting students with a comprehensive and efficient approach to the modelling, simulation, and analysis of dynamic systems, this textbook addresses mechanical, electrical, thermal and fluid systems, feedback control systems, and their combinations. It features a robust introduction to fundamental mathematical prerequisites, suitable for students from a range of backgrounds; clearly established three-key procedures – fundamental principles, basic elements, and ways of analysis – for students to build on in confidence as they explore new topics; over 300 end-of-chapter problems, with solutions available for instructors, to solidify a hands-on understanding; and clear and uncomplicated examples using MATLAB®/Simulink® and Mathematica®, to introduce students to computational approaches. With a capstone chapter focused on the application of these techniques to real-world engineering problems, this is an ideal resource for a single-semester course in dynamic systems for students in mechan

Debates on the human-rights implications of new and emerging technologies have been hampered by the lack of a comprehensive theoretical framework for the complex issues involved. This volume provides that framework, bringing a multidisciplinary and international perspective to the evolution of human rights in the digital and biotechnological era. It delves into the latest frontiers of technological innovation in the life sciences and information technology sectors, such as neurotechnology, robotics, genetic engineering, and artificial intelligence. Leading experts from the technological, medical, and social sciences as well as law, philosophy, and business share their extensive knowledge about the transformation of the rights framework in response to technological innovation. In addition to providing a comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and international state-of-the art descriptive analysis, the volume also offers policy recommendations to protect and promote human rights in the contex