Society heavily depends on infrastructure systems such as road-traffic network...Society heavily depends on infrastructure systems such as road-traffic networks water networks electricity networks etc. Infrastructure systems are hereby considered to be large-scale networked systems that almost everybody uses on a daily basis and...more
This book provides an overview and analysis of developments in several areas o...This book provides an overview and analysis of developments in several areas of computational intelligence. It includes methods that apply to diverse fields such as manufacturing tourism power systems computer science robotics chemistry and biology.more
This book presents recent advances in optimization andcontrol methods with ap...This book presents recent advances in optimization and control methods with applications to industrial engineering and construction management. It consists of 15 chapters authored by recognized experts in a variety of fields including control and...more
Automotive Mechatronics aims to improve automotive mechatronics education emph...Automotive Mechatronics aims to improve automotive mechatronics education emphasizing the training of students experimental hands-on abilities. The text provides a discussion of mechatronic control systems in modern vehicles and the skills needed to...more
This book presents operational and practical issues of automotive mechatronics...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 well as a reference for scientists and engineers...more
This book provides an introduction to the emerging field of planning and decis...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 built-in intelligence requiring no direct human...more
This textbook on microcontroller programming introduces many original proven a...This textbook on microcontroller programming introduces many original proven and important software programmes as well as schematics of circuitry. It fully describes all programmes and includes exercises with detailed debugging.more
The problem of viability of hybrid systems is considered in this work. A model...The problem of viability of hybrid systems is considered in this work. A model for a hybrid system is developed including a means of including three forms of uncertainty: transition dynamics structural uncertainty and parametric uncertainty. A...more
This book represents a thoroughly comprehensive treatment of computational int...This book represents a thoroughly comprehensive treatment of computational intelligence from an electrical power system engineer s perspective. Thorough well-organised and up-to-date it examines in some detail all the important aspects of this very...more
The electric power industry is currently undergoing an unprecedented reform. T...The electric power industry is currently undergoing an unprecedented reform. The deregulation of electricity supply industry has introduced new opportunity for competition to reduce the cost and cut the price. It is a tremendous challenge for...more
This book presents the latest scientific research related to the field of Robo...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 written by technical experts and researchers from...more
This book provides an introduction to the emerging field of planning and decis...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 built-in intelligence requiring no direct human...more
As robots are becoming more and more sophisticated the interest in robot dynam...As robots are becoming more and more sophisticated the interest in robot dynamics is increasing. Within this field contact problems are among the most interesting since contacts are present in almost any robot task and introduce serious complexity...more
Human-Like Biomechanics is a comprehensive introduction into modern geometrica...Human-Like Biomechanics is a comprehensive introduction into modern geometrical methods to be used as a unified research approach in two apparently separate and rapidly growing fields: mathematical biomechanics and humanoid robotics. The book...more
1 Introduction1.1 A Brief History 1.2 Examples in Science and Engineering 1.3 ...1 Introduction1.1 A Brief History 1.2 Examples in Science and Engineering 1.3 Methods and Comparisons 1.4 Fundamental Concepts 2 Control Design of Nonlinear Systems with Constant Gain2.1 Global Stabilization of a Class of Time-Delay Nonlinear...more