Recent Research in Control Engineering and Decision Making

This book constitutes the full research papers and short monographs developed on the base of the refereed proceedings of the International Conference: Information and Communication Technologies for Research and Industry (ICIT 2020). The book brings accepted research papers which present mathematical modelling, innovative approaches and methods of solving problems in the sphere of control eng…

Advances in Air Traffic Engineering

This book offers a timely snapshot of research and developments in the area of air traffic engineering and management. It covers mathematical, modeling, reliability and optimization methods applied for improving different stages of flight operations, including both aerodrome and terminal airspace operations. It analyses and highlights important legal and safety aspects, and discusses timely iss…

Fractional Modeling and Controller Design of Robotic Manipulators

This book at hand is an appropriate addition to the field of fractional calculus applied to control systems. If an engineer or a researcher wishes to delve into fractional-order systems, then this book has many collections of such systems to work upon, and this book also tells the reader about how one can convert an integer-order system into an appropriate fractional-order one through an effici…

Control Theory of Digitally Networked Dynamic Systems

The book gives an introduction to networked control systems and describes new modeling paradigms, analysis methods for event-driven, digitally networked systems, and design methods for distributed estimation and control. Networked model predictive control is developed as a means to tolerate time delays and packet loss brought about by the communication network. In event-based control the tradit…

Virtual Equivalent System Approach for Stability Analysis of Model-based Cont…

This book puts forward the concept of a virtual equivalent system (VES) based on theoretical analysis and simulation results. The new concept will facilitate the development of a unified framework for analyzing the stability and convergence of self-tuning control (STC) systems, and potentially, of all adaptive control systems. The book then shows that a time-varying STC system can be converted…

Service Oriented, Holonic and Multi-Agent Manufacturing Systems for Industry …

The scientific theme of the book concerns “Manufacturing as a Service (MaaS)” which is developed in a layered cloud networked manufacturing perspective, from the shop floor resource sharing model to the virtual enterprise collaborative model, by distributing the cost of the manufacturing infrastructure - equipment, software, maintenance, networking - across all customers. MaaS is approac…

Control of Marine Vehicles

This textbook offers a comprehensive introduction to the control of marine vehicles, from fundamental to advanced concepts, including robust control techniques for handling model uncertainty, environmental disturbances, and actuator limitations. Starting with an introductory chapter that extensively reviews automatic control and dynamic modeling techniques for ocean vehicles, the first part of …

CONTROLO 2020

This book offers a timely and comprehensive snapshot of research and developments in the field of control engineering. Covering a wide range of theoretical and practical issues, the contributions describes a number of different control approaches, such adaptive control, fuzzy and neuro-fuzzy control, remote and robust control systems, real time an fault tolerant control, among others. Sensors a…

Techniques, Tools and Methodologies Applied to Quality Assurance in Manufactu…

This book presents a collection of real cases from industrial practices that production system and quality managers implement to ensure a high quality as well as a low cost in products. This book is divided in sections that are focused on: · The quality and philosophies implemented to production systems; starting from the product design as well as from the supply system. · …

Nonlinear Time-Delay Systems

This brief focuses on the structural properties of nonlinear time-delay systems. It provides a link between coverage of fundamental theoretical properties and advanced control algorithms, as well as suggesting a path for the generalization of the differential geometric approach to time-delay systems . The brief begins with an introduction to a class of single-input nonlinear time-delay syste…

Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Measurement and Quality C…

This book gathers the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Measurement and Quality Control – Cyber Physical Issues (IMEKO TC 14 2019), held in Belgrade, Serbia, on 4–7 June 2019. The event marks the latest in a series of high-level conferences that bring together experts from academia and industry to exchange knowledge, ideas, experiences, research findings, and information i…

ANALISIS PERENCANAAN PENERAPAN AREA TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEM DI KOTA PANGKAL PI…

The development of the city and of employment increasing of population, rising incomes and growing workforce, this has affected to the demand for public transport and need a solution for the traffic conditions. One solution to increase the transportalion system Services that use the Area Traffic Control System in an Intelligent Transport System. The metedology are chosing 2 fforn 7 intersection…

Stochastic Optimal Control of Structures

This book proposes, for the first time, a basic formulation for structural control that takes into account the stochastic dynamics induced by engineering excitations in the nature of non-stationary and non-Gaussian processes. Further, it establishes the theory of and methods for stochastic optimal control of randomly-excited engineering structures in the context of probability density evolution…

Smart Electromechanical Systems

This book presents the latest achievements of Russian scientists in the field of theory and practice of decision-making in SEMS, taking into account the information received from the sensors of its central nervous system (CNS). Recently, in the field of theory and practice of intelligent robotics systems management, the solution to the problem of SEMS type urgent task of making decisions about …

Introduction to Crowd Management

The book contains the latest studies on digitalization of transport and logistics, improving vehicle fuel efficiency, information technology and digital security, land management and cadastres, building structures, structural analysis, and energy conservation in construction. This book consists of papers presented during the XIII International Scientific Conference on Architecture and Construct…

Communication: Innovation & Quality

This book explores the disruptive changes in the media ecosystem caused by convergence and digitization, and analyses innovation processes in content production, distribution and commercialisation. It has been edited by Professors Miguel Túñez-López (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain), Valentín-Alejandro Martínez-Fernández (Universidade da Coruña, Spain), Xosé López-García…

Biological Control of Insect Pests and Weeds

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-

ISBN/ISSN

412-07450-8

Collation

844 p.; 22 cm

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-

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632 Bio b

Algebraic and Differential Methods for Nonlinear Control Theory

This book is a short primer in engineering mathematics with a view on applications in nonlinear control theory. In particular, it introduces some elementary concepts of commutative algebra and algebraic geometry which offer a set of tools quite different from the traditional approaches to the subject matter. This text begins with the study of elementary set and map theory. Chapters 2 and 3 on …

PRINCIPLES OF WEED SCIENCE, Second Edition

Edition

2

ISBN/ISSN

1-57808-069-X

Collation

vi, 553 p. ; 24 cm

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-

Call Number

632.5 Rao p

Applied Weed Sciebce: Including the Ecology and Management of Invasive Plants…

Edition

3

ISBN/ISSN

978-0-13-502814-8

Collation

x, 560 p. ; 30 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

632.5 Ros a

FUNDAMENTALS OF WEED SCIENCE, THIRD EDITION

Edition

3rd

ISBN/ISSN

978-0-12-372518-9

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xv, 655 p.; 24 cm.

Series Title

-

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632.5 Zim f

Advanced Microsystems for Automotive Applications 2014: Smart Systems for Saf…

The automobile is going through the biggest transformation in its history. Automation and electrification of vehicles are expected to enable safer and cleaner mobility. The prospects and requirements of the future automobile affect innovations in major technology fields like driver assistance systems, vehicle networking and drivetrain development. Smart systems such as adaptive ICT components a…

WEED SCIENCE: Principles and practices, Fourth Edition

Edition

4th

ISBN/ISSN

0-471-37051-7

Collation

xi,671 p. : ill. ; 28 cm

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-

Call Number

632.5 Mon w

Advances in Systems Science: Proceedings of the International Conference on S…

The International Conference on Systems Science 2013 (ICSS 2013) was the 18th event of the series of international scientific conferences for researchers and practitioners in the fields of systems science and systems engineering. The conference took place in Wroclaw, Poland during September 10-12, 2013 and was organized by Wroclaw University of Technology and co-organized by: Committee of Auto…

Distributed Model Predictive Control Made Easy

The rapid evolution of computer science, communication, and information technology has enabled the application of control techniques to systems beyond the possibilities of control theory just a decade ago. Critical infrastructures such as electricity, water, traffic and intermodal transport networks are now in the scope of control engineers. The sheer size of such large-scale systems requires t…

Architecting User-Centric Privacy-as-a-Set-of-Services: Digital Identity-Rela…

How could privacy play a key role in protecting digital identities? How could we merge privacy law, policies, regulations and technologies to protect our digital identities in the context of connected devices and distributed systems? In this book, the author addresses major issues of identity protection and proposes a service-oriented layered framework to achieve interoperability of privacy and…

Living Without Mathematical Statistics

The underlying principles invented and developed by Dr. Genichi Taguchi (1924 - 2012), for the design of experiments or simulation calculations in multi-parameter systems, are today known as Taguchi Method. Due to the great success, it was extended to many other areas. The book explains the basics of this method in as much detail as necessary and as simply and graphically as possible. The au…

Applied Weed Science: Including the Ecology and Management of Invasive Plants…

Edition

3rd

ISBN/ISSN

978-0-13-502814-8

Collation

xi, 561 p; ill.; 28 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

632.5 Ros a

Design Automation of Cyber-Physical Systems

This book presents the state-of-the-art and breakthrough innovations in design automation for cyber-physical systems.The authors discuss various aspects of cyber-physical systems design, including modeling, co-design, optimization, tools, formal methods, validation, verification, and case studies. Coverage includes a survey of the various existing cyber-physical systems functional design method…

Fundamentals of Quality Control and Improvement

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-

ISBN/ISSN

0-02-381791-7

Collation

xx, 651 p. ; 26 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

658.562 Mit f