As virtual reality expands from the imaginary worlds of science fiction and pervades every corner of everyday life, it is becoming increasingly important for students and professionals alike to unders
This book makes a consolidated guided tour to the world of sociorobots (social or socialized robots).Sociorobots and assistive robots provide entertainment, assistance to the handicapped, companionshi
This volume explores the ethical questions that arise in the development, creation and use of robots that are capable of semiautonomous or autonomous decision making and human-like action. It examines
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The book, in addition to the cyber threats and technology, processes cyber security from many sides as a social phenomenon and how the implementation of the cyber security strategy is carried out.The
This book provides an overview of the research done and results obtained during the last ten years in the fields of fractional systems control, fractional PI and PID control, robust and CRONE control,
This book presents recent advances in robot control theory on task space sensory feedback control of robot manipulators. By using sensory feedback information, the robot control systems are robust to
Control of Communicable Diseases Manual, 20th Edition, is the must have resource for anyone in the field of public health. Every chapter has been reworked and new chapters have been added. The 20th Ed
The essays in this book, written by researchers from both humanities and science, describe various theoretical and experimental approaches to adding medical ethics to a machine, what design features a
This third edition of Air Traffic Control Career Prep is a comprehensive guide to one of the best-paying Federal government careers, including the test preparation for the initial Air Traffic Control
This is the "eBundle" edition for this title -- a trade paperback that comes with a download code for its free PDF eBook version.This third edition of Air Traffic Control Career Prep is a comprehensiv
The first great “public health revolution” in developed countries involved measures to control infectious disease, and now we are in the midst of the second revolution: the massive attack on chronic d
Large-scale consumption of tobacco has been a significant lifestyle factor in America for centuries . Prior to the beginning of the 20th century, tobacco was consumed in the form of spitting tobacco (
This book provides an introduction to the emerging field of planning and decision making for aerial robots. An aerial robot is the ultimate form of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, an aircraft endowed with bu
Surveying advances in optimization and control methods with applications to industrial engineering and construction management, this book covers lean and agile construction project management, set spl
An aerial robot is a system capable of sustained flight with no direct human control and able to perform a specific task. A lighter than air robot is an aerial robot that relies on the static lift to
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The rapid evolution of computer science, communication, and information technology has enabled the application of control techniques to systems beyond the possibilities of control theory just a decade
This book presents the latest scientific research related to the field of Robotics. It involves different topics such as biomedicine, energy efficiency and home automation and robotics.The book is wri
This book describes the potentialities of metaheuristics forsolving production scheduling problems and the relationship betweenthese two fields.For the past several years, there has been an increasing
This book presents operational and practical issues of automotive mechatronics with special emphasis on the heterogeneous automotive vehicle systems approach, and is intended as a graduate text as wel
Much work on analysis and synthesis problems relating to the multiple model approach has already been undertaken. This has been motivated by the desire to establish the problems of control law synthes
It is commonly recognized that logistics has become a major strategic issue for all companies, whether they are part of the primary, secondary or tertiary sector. Faced with the external pressures of
Contributors from various branches of science and engineering explore a class of nonlinear control systems resulting from the interaction of a control system with a system governed by the dynamics of
Mechatronics represents a unifying interdisciplinary and intelligent Engineering Science paradigm that features an interdisciplinary knowledge area and interactions in terms of ways of work and thinki
This book succinctly presents new methodological principles that will help you raise the quality of your valuable production to enhance your competitiveness. The concepts and models of principles of a
Covering every topic relevant to designing haptic interfaces and teleoperation systems, this text enables readers to engage with more complex approaches including the design of haptic interfaces for s
The purpose of this book is to present the main methods of static and dynamic optimization. It has been written within the framework of the European Union project – ERRIC (Empowering Romanian Research
This book concerns the use of dioid algebra as (max, +) algebra to treat the synchronization of tasks expressed by the maximum of the ends of the tasks conditioning the beginning of another task – a c
Sleep medicine has been developing for more than 40 years. The current concepts in sleep technology are mainly centered on polysomnography (PSG) and issues related to sleep technicians. However, the e
Vehicle dynamics and stability have been of considerable interest for a number of years. The obvious dilemma is that people naturally desire to drive faster and faster yet expect their vehicles to be
This book provides a general overview and original analysis of new developments and applications in several areas of Computational Intelligence and Information Systems. Computational Intelligence has
This book addresses dynamic modelling methodology and analyses of tree-type robotic systems. Such analyses are required to visualize the motion of a system without really building it. The book contain
An electrical engineer with both academic and corporate experience, Leigh offers control engineering students at any level a succinct reference to basic concepts that can supplement standard textbooks
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the area of robot mechanisms, primarily considering industrial manipulators and humanoid arms. The book is intended for both teaching and self-study.
All-embracing manufacturing is a system that aims to dissolve the complexity of the manufacturing process and restore the inherent simplicity. It claims that production is very simple and flexible by
Now that many countries have begun to publish their national bibliographies online, the question arises of how to integrate the multitude of national online resources, how they should be catalogued, h
In this book, the design of two new planar patterns for camera calibration of intrinsic parameters is addressed and a line-based method for distortion correction is suggested. The dynamic calibration
The continous development of computer technology supported by the VLSI revolution stimulated the research in the field ·of multiprocessors systems. The main motivation for the migration of design effo
