Design Rules for Actuators in Active Mechanical Systems
by Oriol Gomis-Bellmunt and Flavio Campanile
"Design Rules for Actuators in Active Mechanical Systems" deals with the formulation of model-based design rules to be used in the conception of optimized mechatronic and adaptronic systems. The book addresses the comparison of different actuator classes for given applications and offers answers to the following questions: What is the relationship between actuator geometry and primary output quantities? How scalable are actuators based on the same principle? How are energetic output quantities (...
A Perspective on Two Decades of Rapid Modeling It is an honor for me to be asked to write a foreword to the Proceedings of the 1st Rapid Modeling Conference. In 1987, when I coined the term "Rapid Modeling" to denote queuing modeling of manufacturing systems, I never imagined that two decades later there would be an international conference devoted to this topic! I am delighted to see that there will be around 40 presentations at the conference by leading researchers from aroundthe world, and ab...
Robotics Research (Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, #100)
This volume presents a collection of papers presented at the 15th International Symposium of Robotic Research (ISRR). ISRR is the biennial meeting of the International Foundation of Robotic Research (IFRR) and its 15th edition took place in Flagstaff, Arizona on December 9 to December 12, 2011. As for the previous symposia, ISRR 2011 followed up on the successful concept of a mixture of invited contributions and open submissions. Therefore approximately half of the 37 contributions were invited...
This text has been designed to be an excellent, comprehensive, one-term book for an introductory course in microprocessors. For example, students learn the basic and advanced programming skills required in the wide spectrum of embedded systems, hardware interfacing, subsystems, and I/O operations and multiplexing. The text has been produced as a cost-effective paperback that includes lab exercises in the text. Designed as possible first microprocessor text, complete with many practical applicati...
Smart Materials-Based Actuators at the Micro/Nano-Scale: Characterization, Control, and Applications
by Micky Rakotondrabe
Adaptive Systems with Reduced Models (Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, #47)
by Petros A. Ioannou and Petar V. Kokotovic
The theme of this monograph is the adaptive control of systems in a stochastic environment and, more precisely, the study of the tracking problem for ARMAX SISO stochastic systems with time invariant and time varying parameters. Results of simultaneous tracking and parameter identification are included. The author has aimed to (1) provide a reasonably self-contained and up-to-date exposition of the tracking problem after having properly placed it amongst numerous ideas, approaches, and subproble...
AI Based Design Methodology for Power Converters (Power Systems)
by Xin Zhang, Xinze Li, Hao Ma, Bin Zhao, and Zeng Zheng
This book presents new techniques for engineers (and researchers) to design power converters using artificial intelligent (AI)-based methods. The book first reviews existing AI technologies in power converters followed by an introduction to the proposed special AI algorithms for power converters considering their unique features. Based on the proposed AI-based design methods, the book discusses suitable applications in the design of power converters such as, power devices, DC/DC converters, reso...
Visual Perception for Manipulation and Imitation in Humanoid Robots (Cognitive Systems Monographs, #4)
by Pedram Azad
In recent yearswe haveseen considerableadvances in the development of - manoid robots, that is robots with an anthropomorphic design. Such robots should be capable of autonomously performing tasks for their human users in changing environments by adapting to these and to the circumstances at hand. To do so, they as well as any kind of autonomous robot need to have some way of understanding the world around them. We humans do so by our senses, both our far senses vision and hearing (smelling too)...
PROFINET is the first integrated Industrial Ethernet Standard for automation, and utilizes the advantages of Ethernet and TCP/IP for open communication from the corporate management level to the process itself. PROFINET CBA divides distributed, complex applications into autonomous units of manageable size. Existing fieldbuses such as PROFIBUS and AS-Interface can be integrated using so-called proxies. This permits separate and cross-vendor development, testing and commissioning of individual pla...
Keine Panik VOR Regelungstechnik!
by Karl-Dieter Tieste and Oliver Romberg
Machines will gradually become programmed using computers which have the knowledge of how the objects in the world relate to one another. This book capitalizes on the fact that products which are manufactured can be designed on the computer and that information about the product such as its physical shape provide powerful information to reason about how to develop the process plan for their manufacture. This book explores the whole aspect of using the principles of how parts behave naturally to...
Prozess-Steuerungen: Projektierung Und Inbetriebnahme Mit Dem Softwaretool Spas
by Jochen Alder and Andreas Pretschner
Proceedings of the 15th Ifac World Congress (IFAC Proceedings Volumes)
by L. Basenez and J. A. De La Puenta
The 15th IFAC Congress attracted contributions from renowned scientists at top research institutions from around the world. Published in about 20 subject oriented volumes, the Proceedings contain all the plenary papers and full indexes. The Congress looked at new applications in industry and services, and considered their technological implications. It also analysed the social impact of control and automation in the new millennium, and acted as an example of how advanced information technologies...
Mechatronics Volume 2
by Jeffrey Johnson, Phil Picton, and Philip Picton
Proceedings of 2013 Chinese Intelligent Automation Conference (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, #254)
Proceedings of the 2013 Chinese Intelligent Automation Conference presents selected research papers from the CIAC'13, held in Yangzhou, China. The topics include e.g. adaptive control, fuzzy control, neural network based control, knowledge based control, hybrid intelligent control, learning control, evolutionary mechanism based control, multi-sensor integration, failure diagnosis, and reconfigurable control. Engineers and researchers from academia, industry, and government can gain an inside vie...
Providing a sound introduction to control engineering, this book features clear explanations and illustrations of the dynamic behaviour of systems and the main methods of analysis. This edition has been expanded to reflect advances in computer technology and includes many practical examples.
Theory of Modeling and Simulation
by Bernard P. Zeigler, Tag Gon Kim, and Herbert Praehofer
The increased computational power and software tools available to engineers have increased the use and dependence on modeling and computer simulation throughout the design process. These tools have given engineers the capability of designing highly complex systems and computer architectures that were previously unthinkable. Every complex design project, from integrated circuits, to aerospace vehicles, to industrial manufacturing processes requires these new methods. This book fulfills the essent...