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Power Electronic Converters
PWM Strategies and Current Control Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
A voltage converter changes the voltage of an electrical power source and is usually combined with other components to create a power supply. This title is devoted to the control of static converters, which deals with pulse-width modulation (PWM) techniques, and also discusses methods for current...
Robot Manipulators
Modeling, Performance Analysis and Control
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This book presents the most recent research results on modeling and control of robot manipulators.
Chapter 1 gives unified tools to derive direct and inverse geometric, kinematic and dynamic models of serial robots and addresses the issue of identification of the geometric and dynamic parameters...
Electrical Actuators
Applications and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
This helpful resource covers a large range of information regarding electrical actuators. In particular, robustness, a very problematic issue, is fully explored in a dedicated chapter. The text also deals with he estimate of non-measurable mechanical variables by examining the estimate of load moment,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
A real-time system is a complex system which is an integral part of an industrial or experimental system, a vehicle or a construction machine. The peculiarity of these systems is that they are driven by real-time targets in distributed environments.
Command-control for Real-time Systems presents the...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
Synchronous motors are indubitably the most effective device to drive industrial production systems and robots with precision and rapidity. Their control law is thus critical for combining at the same time high productivity to reduced energy consummation. As far as possible, the control algorithms...
by Olivier Le Corre
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Emergy presents the fundamentals of emergy, proposing the definition and representation of emergy diagrams and 'spreading.' Embodied energy is the energy consumed by all of the processes associated with the production of a building, from the mining and processing of natural resources to manufacturing,...
Flexible Robotics
Applications to Multiscale Manipulations
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
The objective of this book is to provide those interested in the field of flexible robotics with an overview of several scientific and technological advances in the practical field of robotic manipulation. The different chapters examine various stages that involve a number of robotic devices, particularly...
by Benoît Robyns, Christophe Saudemont, Daniel Hissel
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
This book deals with the management and valuation of energy storage in electric power grids, highlighting the interest of storage systems in grid applications and developing management methodologies based on artificial intelligence tools. The authors highlight the importance of storing electrical...
by Abdelkhalak El Hami, Bouchaib Radi
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
This book is dedicated to the general study of the dynamics of mechanical structures with consideration of uncertainties. The goal is to get the appropriate forms of a part in minimizing a given criterion. In all fields of structural mechanics, the impact of good design of a room is very important...
Computational Color Science
Variational Retinex-like Methods
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
Color is a sensation generated both by the interaction of the visual sensors in the eyes with the natural environment and by the elaboration of visual information by higher brain functions.
This book presents the mathematical framework needed to deal with several models of color processing of digital...
Musical Rhetoric
Foundations and Annotation Schemes
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Discourse analysis and rhetoric are very much developed in communication, linguistics, cognitive science and artificial intelligence. Besides theoretical investigations, discourse analysis is central in a number of application areas such as dialogue and negotiation, the semantic web, question answering...
by Séverine Dubuisson
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
This title concerns the use of a particle filter framework to track objects defined in high-dimensional state-spaces using high-dimensional observation spaces. Current tracking applications require us to consider complex models for objects (articulated objects, multiple objects, multiple fragments,...
Information Fusion in Signal and Image Processing
Major Probabilistic and Non-Probabilistic Numerical Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The area of information fusion has grown considerably during the last few years, leading to a rapid and impressive evolution. In such fast-moving times, it is important to take stock of the changes that have occurred. As such, this books offers an overview of the general principles and specificities...
Non-Linearities in Passive RFID Systems
Third Harmonic Concept and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
This book concerns a new paradigm in the field of UHF RFID systems: the positive exploitation of nonlinear signals generated by the chips integrated into the RFID tags.
After having recalled the main principles in RFID technology and its current challenges notably with the emergence of Internet...