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Engineering (R0) eBook Series

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  • Robust Hand Gesture Recognition for Robotic Hand Control

    by Ankit Chaudhary ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book focuses on light invariant bare hand gesture recognition while there is no restriction on the types of gestures. Observations and results have confirmed that this research work can be used to remotely control a robotic hand using hand gestures. The system developed here is also able to recognize hand gestures in different lighting conditions. The pre-processing is performed by developing ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

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  • Vehicle-Manipulator Systems

    Modeling for Simulation, Analysis, and Control

    by Pål Johan From, Jan Tommy Gravdahl, Kristin Ytterstad Pettersen ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Furthering the aim of reducing human exposure to hazardous environments, this monograph presents a detailed study of the modeling and control of vehicle-manipulator systems. The text shows how complex interactions can be performed at remote locations using systems that combine the manipulability of robotic manipulators with the ability of mobile robots to locomote over large areas.The first part ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Rise of Automation - Technology and Robots Will Replace Humans

    by Adidas Wilson ...
    You probably have an idea how robots will affect human workers negatively. Chief players in the tech world like Bill Gates and Elon Musk have provided their solutions; universal basic income or robot tax. But amidst the serious warnings and the utter sci-fi utopias, the human pain that will follow future job loss seems to be forgotten.15 years or so from now, the US economy will lose 38% of its ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Robots. The New Era. Living, working and investing in the robotics society of the future.

    by Andrea Forni ...
    This book is an exciting journey of discovery through next-generation robotics where we encounter co-worker robots, autonomous vehicles, humanoid robots, civil and military drones, robo-surgeons and other wonders that are no longer science fiction but very much part of the real world.Robotics will become a key factor in the development of the global economy over the coming years and it will lead ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Autonomous Cooperation and Control in Logistics

    Contributions and Limitations - Theoretical and Practical Perspectives

    Edited by Bernd Scholz-Reiter, Michael Hülsmann, Katja Windt ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Many new technologies – like RFID, GPS, and sensor networks – that dominate innovative developments in logistics are based on the idea of autonomous cooperation and control. This self-organisational concept describes „...processes of decentralized decision-making in heterarchical structures. It presumes interacting elements in non-deterministic systems, which possess the capability and possibility ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Proceedings of the 2015 Chinese Intelligent Automation Conference

    Intelligent Automation

    Edited by Zhidong Deng, Hongbo Li ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    Proceedings of the 2015 Chinese Intelligent Automation Conference presents selected research papers from the CIAC’15, held in Fuzhou, China. The topics include adaptive control, fuzzy control, neural network based control, knowledge based control, hybrid intelligent control, learning control, evolutionary mechanism based control, multi-sensor integration, failure diagnosis, reconfigurable control, ... Read more

    $256.99 CAD

  • Advanced Control of Wheeled Inverted Pendulum Systems

    by Zhijun Li, Chenguang Yang, Liping Fan ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Advanced Control o**f Wheeled Inverted Pendulum Systems is an orderly presentation of recent ideas for overcoming the complications inherent in the control of wheeled inverted pendulum (WIP) systems, in the presence of uncertain dynamics, nonholonomic kinematic constraints as well as underactuated configurations. The text leads the reader in a theoretical exploration of problems in kinematics, ... Read more

    $141.99 CAD

  • Proceedings of the Second International Afro-European Conference for Industrial Advancement AECIA 2015

    Edited by Ajith Abraham, Katarzyna Wegrzyn-Wolska, Aboul Ella Hassanien, Adel M. Alimi, Vaclav Snasel ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This volume contains papers presented at the 2nd International Afro-European Conference for Industrial Advancement -- AECIA 2015. The conference aimed at bringing together the foremost experts and excellent young researchers from Africa, Europe and the rest of the world to disseminate the latest results from various fields of engineering, information, and communication technologies. The topics, ... Read more

    $256.99 CAD

  • Human and Nature Minding Automation

    An Overview of Concepts, Methods, Tools and Applications

    by Spyros G. Tzafestas ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Man is the best thing in the World. Nature does nothing uselessly. Aristotle There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar: I love not Man the less, but Nature more. John Burroughs The basic purpose of development is to enlarge people’s choices. The objective of development is to create ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Non-identifier Based Adaptive Control in Mechatronics

    Theory and Application

    by Christoph M. Hackl ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book introduces non-identifier-based adaptive control (with and without internal model) and its application to the current, speed and position control of mechatronic systems such as electrical synchronous machines, wind turbine systems, industrial servo systems, and rigid-link, revolute-joint robots.In mechatronics, there is often only rough knowledge of the system. Due to parameter ... Read more

    $205.99 CAD

  • Path Planning for Vehicles Operating in Uncertain 2D Environments

    by Viacheslav Pshikhopov ...
    Path Planning for Vehicles Operating in Uncertain 2D-environments presents a survey that includes several path planning methods developed using fuzzy logic, grapho-analytical search, neural networks, and neural-like structures, procedures of genetic search, and unstable motion modes. - Presents a survey of accounting limitations imposed by vehicle dynamics - Proposes modified and new original ... Read more

    $110.39 CAD

  • Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems

    Theory and Applications

    by Madan M. Gupta ...
    Series series Academic Press Series in Engineering
    The field of soft computing is emerging from the cutting edge research over the last ten years devoted to fuzzy engineering and genetic algorithms. The subject is being called soft computing and computational intelligence. With acceptance of the research fundamentals in these important areas, the field is expanding into direct applications through engineering and systems science.This book cover ... Read more

    $141.59 CAD