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Gilster, Paul |
Centauri Dreams |
I10858 |
2004 |
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Singh, Krishna K |
System Design through Matlab??, Control Toolbox and Simulink?? |
I10634 |
2001 |
eBook |
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Hebra, Alex |
The Physics of Metrology |
I08265 |
2010 |
eBook |
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Karnouskos, Stamatis |
Applications and Markets for Cooperating Objects |
I08137 |
2014 |
eBook |
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| 25 |
Massip-Bonet, ??ngels |
Complexity Perspectives on Language, Communication and Society |
I07610 |
2013 |
eBook |
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| 26 |
Kachroo, Pushkin |
Pedestrian Dynamics |
I07155 |
2008 |
eBook |
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| 27 |
Rabinovich, Semyon G |
Measurement Errors and Uncertainties |
I06733 |
2005 |
eBook |
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King, Ralf Simon |
BiLBIQ: A Biologically Inspired Robot with Walking and Rolling Locomotion |
I06332 |
2013 |
eBook |
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Banerjee, Santo |
Applications of Chaos and Nonlinear Dynamics in Engineering - Vol. 1 |
I05942 |
2011 |
eBook |
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Martinez-de Dios, Jose Ramiro |
A Remote Integrated Testbed for Cooperating Objects |
I05847 |
2014 |
eBook |
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| Title | Centauri Dreams : Imagining and Planning Interstellar Exploration |
| Author(s) | Gilster, Paul |
| Publication | New York, NY, 1. Imprint: Copernicus
2. Springer New York, 2004. |
| Description | XV, 302 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | I wrote this book because I wanted to learn more about interstel?? lar flight. Not the Star Trek notion of tearing around the Galaxy in a huge spaceship-that was obviously beyond existing tech?? nology-but a more realistic mission. In 1989 I had videotaped Voyager 2's encounter with Neptune and watched the drama of robotic exploration over and over again. I started to wonder whether we could do something similar with Alpha Centauri, the nearest star to the Sun. Everyone seemed to agree that manned flight to the stars was out of the question, if not permanently then for the indefinitely foreseeable future. But surely we could do something with robotics. And if we could figure out a theoretical way to do it, how far were we from the actual technology that would make it happen? In other words, what was the state of our interstellar technology today, those concepts and systems that might translate into a Voyager to the stars? Finding answers meant talking to people inside and outside of NASA. I was surprised to learn that there is a large literature of interstellar flight. Nobody knows for sure how to propel a space?? craft fast enough to make the interstellar crossing within a time scale that would fit the conventional idea of a mission, but there are candidate systems that are under active investigation. Some of this effort begins with small systems that we'll use near the Earth and later hope to extend to deep space missions |
| ISBN,Price | 9781475738940 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Aerospace engineering
2. Aerospace Technology and Astronautics
3. ASTRONAUTICS
4. ASTRONOMY
5. Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
6. ASTROPHYSICS
7. Automotive engineering
8. Control engineering
9. Control, Robotics, Mechatronics
10. EBOOK
11. EBOOK - SPRINGER
12. Mechatronics
13. Popular Science in Astronomy
14. ROBOTICS
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| Title | System Design through Matlab??, Control Toolbox and Simulink?? |
| Author(s) | Singh, Krishna K;Agnihotri, Gayatri |
| Publication | London, Springer London, 2001. |
| Description | XXIV, 488 p. 372 illus : online resource |
| Abstract Note | MATLAB , a software package developed by Math Works, Inc. is powerful, versatile and interactive software for scientific and technical computations including simulations. Specialised toolboxes provided with several built-in functions are a special feature of MATLAB . This book titled System Design through MATLAB , Control Toolbox and SIMULINK aims at getting the reader started with computations and simulations in system engineering quickly and easily and then proceeds to build concepts for advanced computations and simulations that includes the control and compensation of systems. Simulation through SIMULINK has also been described to allow the reader to get the feel of the real world situation. This book is appropriate for undergraduate students undergoing final semester of their project work, postgraduate students who have MATLAB integrated in their course or wish to take up simulation problem in the area of system engineering for their dissertation work and research scholars for whom MATLAB?? |
| ISBN,Price | 9781447106975 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. COMPLEXITY
2. COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY
3. Control engineering
4. Control, Robotics, Mechatronics
5. EBOOK
6. EBOOK - SPRINGER
7. ENGINEERING DESIGN
8. Measurement Science and Instrumentation
9. Measurement??????
10. Mechatronics
11. PHYSICAL MEASUREMENTS
12. ROBOTICS
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| I10634 |
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| Title | The Physics of Metrology : All about Instruments: From Trundle Wheels to Atomic Clocks |
| Author(s) | Hebra, Alex |
| Publication | Vienna, Springer Vienna, 2010. |
| Description | XXI, 383 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Conceived as a reference manual for practicing engineers, instrument designers, service technicians and engineering students. The related fields of physics, mechanics and mathematics are frequently incorporated to enhance the understanding of the subject matter. Historical anecdotes as far back as Hellenistic times to modern scientists help illustrate in an entertaining manner ideas ranging from impractical inventions in history to those that have changed our lives |
| ISBN,Price | 9783211783818 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Control engineering
2. Control, Robotics, Mechatronics
3. EBOOK
4. EBOOK - SPRINGER
5. ELECTRONICS
6. Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation
7. ENGINEERING
8. Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer
9. Engineering, general
10. Heat engineering
11. HEAT TRANSFER
12. MASS TRANSFER
13. Measurement Science and Instrumentation
14. Measurement??????
15. MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
16. Mechatronics
17. MICROELECTRONICS
18. PHYSICAL MEASUREMENTS
19. ROBOTICS
20. THERMODYNAMICS
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| Title | Applications and Markets for Cooperating Objects |
| Author(s) | Karnouskos, Stamatis;Marr??n, Pedro Jos??;Fortino, Giancarlo;Mottola, Luca;Mart??nez-de Dios, Jos?? Ramiro |
| Publication | Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2014. |
| Description | XIV, 120 p. 44 illus., 40 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This book provides an overview and an insight in cooperative objects and defines the classification of topics into the different areas. A significant number of researchers and industrial partners were contacted in order to prepare the roadmap. The book prosents of the main results provided by the corresponding European project "CONET" |
| ISBN,Price | 9783642454011 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. APPLICATION SOFTWARE
2. AUTOMATION
3. Communications Engineering, Networks
4. EBOOK
5. EBOOK - SPRINGER
6. ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
7. Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet)
8. ROBOTICS
9. Robotics and Automation
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| Title | Complexity Perspectives on Language, Communication and Society |
| Author(s) | Massip-Bonet, ??ngels;Bastardas-Boada, Albert |
| Publication | Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013. |
| Description | XVI, 256 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | The ???language-communication-society??? triangle defies traditional scientific approaches. Rather, it is a phenomenon that calls for an integration of complex, transdisciplinary perspectives, if we are to make any progress in understanding how it works. The highly diverse agents in play are not merely cognitive and/or cultural, but also emotional and behavioural in their specificity. Indeed, the effort may require building a theoretical and methodological body of knowledge that can effectively convey the characteristic properties of phenomena in human terms. New complexity approaches allow us to rethink our limited and mechanistic images of human societies and create more appropriate emo-cognitive dynamic and holistic models. We have to enter into dialogue with the complexity views coming out of other more ???material??? sciences, but we also need to take steps in the linguistic and psycho-sociological fields towards creating perspectives and concepts better fitted to human characteristics. Our understanding of complexity is different ??? but not opposed ??? to the one that is more commonly found in texts written by people working in physics or computer science, for example. The goal of this book is to extend the knowledge of these other more ???human??? or socially oriented perspectives on complexity, taking account of the language and communication singularities of human agents in society. ?? ?? |
| ISBN,Price | 9783642328176 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. AUTOMATION
2. Data-driven Science, Modeling and Theory Building
3. EBOOK
4. EBOOK - SPRINGER
5. ECONOPHYSICS
6. MATHEMATICS
7. Mathematics in the Humanities and Social Sciences
8. ROBOTICS
9. Robotics and Automation
10. SOCIAL SCIENCES
11. Sociophysics
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| Title | Pedestrian Dynamics : Feedback Control of Crowd Evacuation |
| Author(s) | Kachroo, Pushkin;Al-nasur, Sadeq J;Wadoo, Sabiha Amin;Shende, Apoorva |
| Publication | Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008. |
| Description | XIV, 246 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Effective evacuation of people from closed spaces is an extremely important topic, since it can save real lives in emergency situations that can be brought about by natural and human made disasters. Usually there are static maps posted at various places at buildings that illustrate routes that should be taken during emergencies. However, when disasters happen, some of these routes might not be valid because of structural problems due to the disaster itself and more importantly because of the distribution of congestion of people spread over the area. The average flow of traffic depends on the traffic density. Therefore, if all the people follow the same route, or follow a route without knowing the congestion situation, they can end up being part of the congestion which results in very low flow rate or worse a traffic jam. Hence it becomes extremely important to design evacuations that inform people how fast and in which direction to move based on real-time information obtained about the people distribution using various sensors. The sensors used can include cameras, infra red sensors etc., and the technology used to inform people about the desired movement can be communicated using light matrix, small speakers, and in the future using wireless PDAs. This book provides mathematical models of pedestrian movements that can be used specifically for designing feedback control laws for effective evacuation. The book also provides various feedback control laws to accomplish the effective evacuation. The book uses the hydrodynamic hyperbolic PDE macroscopic pedestrian models since they are amenable to feedback control design. The control designs are obtained through different nonlinear techniques including Lyapunov functional techniques, feedback linearization in the distributed model, and some discretized techniques |
| ISBN,Price | 9783540755616 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. COMPLEX SYSTEMS
2. Control engineering
3. Control, Robotics, Mechatronics
4. DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS
5. DYNAMICS
6. EBOOK
7. EBOOK - SPRINGER
8. GAME THEORY
9. Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences
10. Mechatronics
11. ROBOTICS
12. STATISTICAL PHYSICS
13. Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems
14. THERMODYNAMICS
15. VIBRATION
16. Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control
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| Title | Measurement Errors and Uncertainties : Theory and Practice |
| Author(s) | Rabinovich, Semyon G |
| Publication | New York, NY, Springer New York, 2005. |
| Description | XII, 308 p. 30 illus : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Measurement Errors and Uncertainties addresses the most important problems that physicists and engineers encounter when estimating errors and uncertainty. Building from the fundamentals of measurement theory, the author develops the theory of accuracy of measurements and offers a wealth of practical recommendations and examples of applications. This new edition covers a wide range of subjects, including: - Basic concepts of metrology - Measuring instruments characterization, standardization and calibration -Estimation of errors and uncertainty of single and multiple measurements - Modern probability-based methods of estimating measurement uncertainty With this new edition, the author completes the development of the new theory of indirect measurements. This theory provides more accurate and efficient methods for processing indirect measurement data. It eliminates the need to calculate the correlation coefficient - a stumbling block in measurement data processing - and offers for the first time a way to obtain the confidence intervals. In other words, this new theory provides means to calculate a well-grounded estimate of measurement uncertainty for this complex but widely used type of measurements. Acclaim for previous editions: "Extremely useful to metrologists and to anyone interested in measurement errors" (MEASUREMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY) "I suggest that every technical library should own a copy of Measurement Errors. Serious experimentalists whose interests are broad will surely want to examine the book with the intent of buying it". (Applied Mechanics Review) |
| ISBN,Price | 9780387291437 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. BIOMATHEMATICS
2. Chemometrics
3. Computational Intelligence
4. Control engineering
5. Control, Robotics, Mechatronics
6. EBOOK
7. EBOOK - SPRINGER
8. Math. Applications in Chemistry
9. Mathematical and Computational Biology
10. Measurement Science and Instrumentation
11. Measurement??????
12. Mechatronics
13. PHYSICAL MEASUREMENTS
14. ROBOTICS
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| Title | Applications of Chaos and Nonlinear Dynamics in Engineering - Vol. 1 |
| Author(s) | Banerjee, Santo;Mitra, Mala;Rondoni, Lamberto |
| Publication | Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011. |
| Description | X, 350 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Chaos and nonlinear dynamics initially developed as a new emergent field with its foundation in physics and applied mathematics. The highly generic, interdisciplinary quality of the insights gained in the last few decades has spawned myriad applications in almost all branches of science and technology???and even well beyond. Wherever quantitative modeling and analysis of complex, nonlinear phenomena is required, chaos theory and its methods can play a key role. ?? This volume concentrates on reviewing the most relevant contemporary applications of chaotic nonlinear systems as they apply to the various cutting-edge branches of engineering. The book covers the theory as applied to robotics, electronic and communication engineering (for example chaos synchronization and cryptography) as well as to civil and mechanical engineering, where its use in damage monitoring and control is explored). Featuring contributions from active and leading research groups, this collection is ideal both as a reference and as a ???recipe book??? full of tried and tested, successful engineering applications |
| ISBN,Price | 9783642219221 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. APPLIED MATHEMATICS
2. AUTOMATION
3. Communications Engineering, Networks
4. COMPLEX SYSTEMS
5. DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS
6. DYNAMICS
7. EBOOK
8. EBOOK - SPRINGER
9. ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
10. ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS
11. Mathematical and Computational Engineering
12. ROBOTICS
13. Robotics and Automation
14. STATISTICAL PHYSICS
15. Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems
16. VIBRATION
17. Vibration, Dynamical Systems, Control
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| Title | A Remote Integrated Testbed for Cooperating Objects |
| Author(s) | Martinez-de Dios, Jose Ramiro;Jimenez-Gonzalez, Adrian;de San Bernabe, Alberto;Ollero, Anibal |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2014. |
| Description | XIII, 79 p. 31 illus., 28 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Testbeds are gaining increasing relevance in research domains and also in industrial applications. However, very few books devoted to testbeds have been published. To the best of my knowledge no book on this topic has been published. This book is particularly interesting for the growing community of testbed developers. I believe the book is also very interesting for researchers in robot-WSN cooperation. This book provides detailed description of a system that can be considered the first testbed that allows full peer-to-peer interoperability between heterogeneous robots and ubiquitous systems such as Wireless Sensor Networks, camera networks and pervasive computing systems. The system architecture includes modules that allows full bidirectional communication between robots and WSN. One robot can The book describes the current state of the art in development of testbeds integrating Cooperating Object technologies. It describes in detail the testbed specification and design using requirements extracted from surveys among experts in robotics and ubiquitous systems in academia and industry. The book also describes the testbed novel architecture and its hardware and software components. Moreover, it includes details on user support tools to facilitate its use such as remote use using a virtual private network and sets of functionalities of interest for members from the robotics, WSN and robot-WSN communities. Finally, the book illustrates its capabilities and potentialities describing the implementation of some of the experiments that have been performed. Examples from the robotics, WSN and robot-WSN communities are described |
| ISBN,Price | 9783319013725 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. APPLICATION SOFTWARE
2. AUTOMATION
3. Communications Engineering, Networks
4. EBOOK
5. EBOOK - SPRINGER
6. ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
7. Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet)
8. ROBOTICS
9. Robotics and Automation
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