This volume contains the proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium of Robotics Research. The papers, written by international specialists in the field, cover many topics surrounding advanced robotics, ranging from practical system design to theoretical reasoning and planning. They assess the state of the field and discuss current and emerging trends dealing with, amongst other topics, mobile robotics, manufacturing, learning from humans, autonomous land vehicles, humanoid robots, future...
PIC Microcontrollers: An Introduction to Microelectronics, Third Edition, provides an introduction to the complex technology of microcontrollers. Starting with the standard PC, it establishes basic concepts and terminology: microprocessor systems, memory, input and output, and general digital systems ideas. It then examines the PIC microcontroller (MCU), which dominates the market for small-scale industrial applications. The analysis includes a chip that is no longer used commercially, with the...
Praise for Previous Volumes "This book will be a useful reference to control engineers and researchers. The papers contained cover well the recent advances in the field of modern control theory." -IEEE GROUP CORRESPONDENCE "This book will help all those researchers who valiantly try to keep abreast of what is new in the theory and practice of optimal control." -CONTROL
Elektronische Schaltungen 2 (Springer-Lehrbuch)
by Horst Wupper and Ulf Niemeyer
Dieses zweibandige, grundlegende und tiefgehende Werk uber analoge und digitale Schaltungstechnik bietet neben einer verstandlichen Darstellung des Lehrstoffs viele umfangreiche Lernhilfen. Es ist daher besonders fur Einsteiger und zum Selbst- und Fernstudium geeignet. Eine Vielzahl von detailliert durchgerechneten Beispielen, Aufgaben mit ausfuhrlichen Loesungsvorschlagen, Merksatzen und Kapitelzusammenfassungen erleichtern das Lernen ebenso wie die zahlreichen Abbildungen und Tabellen. Das Wer...
Dealing with Electronics (De Gruyter Textbook)
by Manfred Drosg and Michael Morten Steurer
The extensive use of little known electronic principles provides something like the Science of Electronics supplementing the Art of Electronics without involvement of too much theory. Whereas art can only be acquired by doing, the knowledge provided by science can be acquired from books. The ready availability of integrated circuits for practically any application reduces the art of electronics to the art of interfacing these integrated components. The practical knowledge required for that art c...
Spintronics is a promising technology as one of the alternatives to the traditional memory technology. MRAM is one of the major applications of Spintronics. The authors offer the first comprehensive book on MRAM. It is structured to be a complete and updated guide for the readers. This book provides an overview of the state of the art, describes industrial applications, and presents original technologies in this rapidly-moving field. It covers aspects from physics, device, circuit, and system t...
Innovation in Product Design: From CAD to Virtual Prototyping
by Allyson L Hartzell and Herbert R Shea
Electrical Machines & Drives (Ifac Proceedings) (Applied Electricity & Electronics S.)
by John Hindmarsh
Recent years have brought substantial developments in electrical drive technology, with the appearance of highly rated, very-high-speed power-electronic switches, combined with microcomputer control systems. This popular textbook has been thoroughly revised and updated in the light of these changes. It retains its successful formula of teaching through worked examples, which are put in context with concise explanations of theory, revision of equations and discussion of the engineering implicat...
Pulsed-Power Systems describes the physical and technical foundations for the production and application of high-voltage pulses of very high-power and high-energy character. In the initial chapters, it addresses materials, components and the most common diagnostics. In the second part, three categories of applications with scientific and industrial relevance are detailed: production of strong pulsed electric and magnetic fields, intense radiation sources and pulsed electric (plasma) discharges.
Practical Electrical Equipment and Installations in Hazardous Areas (Practical Professional Books from Elsevier)
by Geoffrey Bottrill, Derek Cheyne, and G Vijayaraghavan
This book provides the reader with an understanding of the hazards involved in using electrical equipment in Potentially Explosive Atmospheres. It is based on the newly adopted international IEC79 Series of Standards that are now harmonizing and replacing older national Standards. Explosion-proof installations can be expensive to design, install and operate. The strategies and techniques described in this book can significantly reduce costs whilst maintaining plant safety. The book explains the...
Practical Industrial Data Networks: Design, Installation and Troubleshooting (Practical Professional Books from Elsevier)
by Steve Mackay, Edwin Wright, B.SC, Deon Reynders, and John Park
Principles of Microelectromechanical Systems (Wiley - IEEE)
by Ki Bang Lee
This is the only book of its kind to focus on closed form solutions to micro-mechanical problems. This approach allows readers to easily understand the linear and nonlinear behavior of Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) and their design applications. This approach will appeal especially to RF/electronics/sensor specialists who, for design purposes, would like to forego numerical nonlinear mechanical simulations. The book is also of interest to researchers in MEMS, graduate students in elect...
Developments in Assembly Automation. Japan Vs Europe. Product Design for Assembly.
This highly successful annual event moves to London for 1988, with a change in format, offering two one day seminars and a two day conference programme. Papers from all three events are included in this volume, the ninth in the series. The first seminar is entitled "Japan vs Europe" and includes papers from distinguished Japanese academics and industrialists outlining some of the differences in national approaches. "Product Design for Assembly" looks at the design implications of advances in ass...
Handbook of Superconductivity
by Charles Poole, Jr., Horacio A. Farach, and Richard J. Creswick
The field of superconductivity has tremendous potential for growth and further development in industrial applications. The subject continues to occupy physicists, chemists, and engineers interested in both the phenomena itself and possible financially viable industrial devices utilizing the physical concepts. For the past five years, within the publications of the American Physical Society, for example, 40%-60% of all articles submitted to major journals in the area of Solid State Physics have b...
Leakage in Nanometer CMOS Technologies (Integrated Circuits and Systems) (Series on Integrated Circuits and Systems)
Covers in detail promising solutions at the device, circuit, and architecture levels of abstraction after first explaining the sensitivity of the various MOS leakage sources to these conditions from the first principles. Also treated are the resulting effects so the reader understands the effectiveness of leakage power reduction solutions under these different conditions. Case studies supply real-world examples that reap the benefits of leakage power reduction solutions as the book highlights...
Electronic Properties of Fullerenes (Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences, #117)
Electronic Properties of Fullerenes and other Novel Materials gives an overview of the state-of-the-art research. It presents most recent results on preparation, experimental analysis by electron spectroscopy, infrared and Raman spectroscopy, luminescence, and nonlinear optical, as well as possible technological applications. Emphasis is also placed on the superconducting properties of Fullerenes. The introductory and advanced contributions provide a good survey of the curre...
Hydrogen in Crystalline Semiconductors (Springer Series in Materials Science, #16)
by Stephen J Pearton, James W. Corbett, and Michael Stavola
This monograph arose out of the recognition of the importance of hydrogen in modern semiconductor technology. Hydrogen is a component of most chemicals used in the fabrication of electronic and photonic devices, is easily incorporated into semiconductors and it is a model impurity for studying defect reactions in solids. While writing this volume we have received a good deal of encourage- ment from our colleagues at AT&T Bell Laboratories, State University of New York at Albany and Lehigh Univer...
PIC Microcontroller Projects in C: Basic to Advanced
by Dogan Ibrahim