Automation category: 777 books
Event-Based State Estimation
A Stochastic Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
This book explores event-based estimation problems. It shows how several stochastic approaches are developed to maintain estimation performance when sensors perform their updates at slower rates only when needed.
The self-contained presentation makes this book suitable for readers with no...
A World Without Work
Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2020
From an Oxford economist, A World Without Work is a visionary look at how advances in artificial intelligence will erode employment across all types of occupations
For all the general anxiety about computers taking people’s jobs, economists have long been optimistic about technology’s impact...
Radial Basis Function (RBF) Neural Network Control for Mechanical Systems
Design, Analysis and Matlab Simulation
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2013
Radial Basis Function (RBF) Neural Network Control for Mechanical Systems is motivated by the need for systematic design approaches to stable adaptive control system design using neural network approximation-based techniques. The main objectives of the book are to introduce the concrete design methods...
by Nicholas Carr
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
At once a celebration of technology and a warning about its misuse, The Glass Cage will change the way you think about the tools you use every day.
In The Glass Cage, best-selling author Nicholas Carr digs behind the headlines about factory robots and self-driving cars, wearable computers and...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
This book provides an overview of recent research developments in the automation and control of robotic systems that collaborate with humans. A measure of human collaboration being necessary for the optimal operation of any robotic system, the contributors exploit a broad selection of such systems...
Intelligent Building Control Systems
A Survey of Modern Building Control and Sensing Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2017
Readers of this book will be shown how, with the adoption of ubiquituous sensing, extensive data-gathering and forecasting, and building-embedded advanced actuation, intelligent building systems with the ability to respond to occupant preferences in a safe and energy-efficient manner are becoming...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
This book reflects the latest developments in variable structure systems (VSS) and sliding mode control (SMC), highlighting advances in various branches of the VSS/SMC field, e.g., from conventional SMC to high-order SMC, from the continuous-time domain to the discrete-time domain, from theories to...
9th International Conference on Robotic, Vision, Signal Processing and Power Applications
Empowering Research and Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
The proceeding is a collection of research papers presented, at the 9th International Conference on Robotics, Vision, Signal Processing & Power Applications (ROVISP 2016), by researchers, scientists, engineers, academicians as well as industrial professionals from all around the globe to present...
Mechatronics and Automatic Control Systems
Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Mechatronics and Automatic Control Systems (ICMS2013)
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
This book examines mechatronics and automatic control systems. The book covers important emerging topics in signal processing, control theory, sensors, mechanic manufacturing systems and automation. The book presents papers from the 2013 International Conference on Mechatronics and Automatic Control Systems in Hangzhou, held in China during August 10-11, 2013.
by Zhanshan Wang, Zhenwei Liu, Chengde Zheng
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2015
This book focuses on the stability of the dynamical neural system, synchronization of the coupling neural system and their applications in automation control and electrical engineering. The redefined concept of stability, synchronization and consensus are adopted to provide a better explanation of...
The 8th International Conference on Robotic, Vision, Signal Processing & Power Applications
Innovation Excellence Towards Humanistic Technology
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
The proceeding is a collection of research papers presented, at the 8th International Conference on Robotics, Vision, Signal Processing and Power Applications (ROVISP 2013), by researchers, scientists, engineers, academicians as well as industrial professionals from all around the globe. The topics...
Multilayer Control of Networked Cyber-Physical Systems
Application to Monitoring, Autonomous and Robot Systems
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2016
This book faces the interdisciplinary challenge of formulating performance-assessing design approaches for networked cyber-physical systems (NCPSs). Its novel distributed multilayer cooperative control deals simultaneously with communication-network and control performance required for the network...
by Anthony Tri Tran C., Quang Ha
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
This book focuses on the stabilization and model predictive control of interconnected systems with mixed connection configurations. It introduces the concept of dissipation-based quadratic constraint for developing attractivity assurance methods for interconnected systems. In order to develop these...
Pinning Control of Complex Networked Systems
Synchronization, Consensus and Flocking of Networked Systems via Pinning
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Synchronization, consensus and flocking are ubiquitous requirements in networked systems. Pinning Control of Complex Networked Systems investigates these requirements by using the pinning control strategy, which aims to control the whole dynamical network with huge numbers of nodes by imposing controllers...