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Introduction to Mobile Robot Control
Author Spyros G Tzafestas
Introduction to Mobile Robot Control provides a complete and concise study of modeling, control, and navigation methods for wheeled non-holonomic and omnidirectional mobile robots and manipulators. The book begins with a study of mobile robot drives and correspondin....
Release Date 2013/10 -
Thermal Energy Storage Technologies for Sustainability
Author R. Parameshwaran , S. Kalaiselvam
Thermal Energy Storage Technologies for Sustainability is a broad-based overview describing the state-of-the-art in latent, sensible, and thermo-chemical energy storage systems and their applications across industries. Beginning with a discussion of the efficiency a....
Release Date 2014/07 -
Solar Energy, Photovoltaics, and Domestic Hot Water
Author Russell H. Plante
Solar Energy, Photovoltaics, and Domestic Hot Water provides a fundamental understanding of heat and energy conversions and of both solar domestic hot water system types with associated components and photovoltaic/inverter system combinations. It provides the inform....
Release Date 2014/04 -
Author Paulo Leitão , Stamatis Karnouskos
Industrial Agents explains how multi-agent systems improve collaborative networks to offer dynamic service changes, customization, improved quality and reliability, and flexible infrastructure. Learn how these platforms can offer distributed intelligent management a....
Release Date 2015/03 -
Author Xinyu Wu , Huihuan Qian , Yangsheng Xu
Copyright ©2015 Zhejiang University Press, Published by Elsevier Inc.Household Service Robotics is a collection of the latest technological advances in household service robotics in five main areas: robot systems, manipulation, navigation, object recognition, and hu....
Release Date 2014/12 -
Author Brian F. Towler
Using the principle that extracting energy from the environment always involves some type of impact on the environment, The Future of Energy discusses the sources, technologies, and tradeoffs involved in meeting the world's energy needs. A historical, scienti....
Release Date 2014/05 -
Author Xiaocong Fan
This book integrates new ideas and topics from real time systems, embedded systems, and software engineering to give a complete picture of the whole process of developing software for real-time embedded applications. You will not only gain a thorough understanding o....
Release Date 2015/02 -
Performance Measurement and Management for Engineers
Author Marco Giorgino , Giovanni Azzone , Michela Arnaboldi
Performance Measurement and Management for Engineers introduces key concepts in finance, accounting, and management to project managers who have engineering backgrounds. It focuses these basic concepts on issues of measuring and managing enterprise value. Thus, afte....
Release Date 2014/09 -
Communications for Control in Cyber Physical Systems
Author Husheng Li
Communications and Controls in Cyber Physical Systems: Theory, Design and Applications in Smart Grids provides readers with all they need to know about cyber physical systems (CPSs), such as smart grids, which have attracted intensive studies in recent years. Commu....
Release Date 2016/10 -
Author Paul Dr. Smith , Florian Skopik
The Smart Grid security ecosystem is complex and multi-disciplinary, and relatively under-researched compared to the traditional information and network security disciplines. While the Smart Grid has provided increased efficiencies in monitoring power usage, directi....
Release Date 2015/08 -
Author Bent Sørensen
Bent Sørensen’s Renewable Energy: Physics, Engineering, Environmental Impacts, Economics and Planning, Fifth Edition, continues the tradition by providing a thorough and current overview of the entire renewable energy sphere. Since its first edition, this standard ....
Release Date 2017/06 -
Author Alper Buyuktosunoglu , Pradip Bose , Augusto Vega
Rugged Embedded Systems: Computing in Harsh Environments describes how to design reliable embedded systems for harsh environments, including architectural approaches, cross-stack hardware/software techniques, and emerging challenges and opportunities. A "harsh envi....
Release Date 2016/12 -
Programmable Logic Controllers, 6th Edition
Author William Bolton
This textbook, now in its sixth edition, continues to be straightforward and easy-to-read, presenting the principles of PLCs while not tying itself to one manufacturer or another. Extensive examples and chapter ending problems utilize several popular PLCs, highlight....
Release Date 2015/03 -
Modeling and Analysis of Doubly Fed Induction Generator Wind Energy Systems
Author Zhixin Miao , Lingling Fan
Wind Energy Systems: Modeling, Analysis and Control with DFIG provides key information on machine/converter modelling strategies based on space vectors, complex vector, and further frequency-domain variables. It includes applications that focus on wind energy grid ....
Release Date 2015/04 -
Numerical Modelling of Wave Energy Converters
Author Matt Folley
Numerical Modelling of Wave Energy Converters: State-of-the Art Techniques for Single WEC and Converter Arrays presents all the information and techniques required for the numerical modelling of a wave energy converter together with a comparative review of the diff....
Release Date 2016/06 -
Author Bent Sørensen
Bent Sørensen, one of the world’s leading experts in the field of renewable energy systems, explores the current hurdles to the universal adoption of renewable energy sources and proposes solutions to the current situation in this new inspiring work. He discusses t....
Release Date 2016/02 -
The Definitive Guide to ARM® Cortex®-M0 and Cortex-M0+ Processors, 2nd Edition
Author Joseph Yiu
The Definitive Guide to the ARM® Cortex®-M0 and Cortex-M0+ Processors, Second Edition explains the architectures underneath ARM’s Cortex-M0 and Cortex-M0+ processors and their programming techniques. Written by ARM’s Senior Embedded Technology Manager, Joseph Yiu, t....
Release Date 2015/06 -
Energy Storage for Sustainable Microgrid
Author David Wenzhong Gao
Energy Storage for Sustainable Microgrid addresses the issues related to modelling, operation and control, steady-state and dynamic analysis of microgrids with ESS. This book discusses major electricity storage technologies in depth along with their efficiency, lif....
Release Date 2015/07 -
Author Trevor M. Letcher
Energy Storage discusses the needs of the world’s future energy and climate change policies, covering the various types of renewable energy storage in one comprehensive volume that allows readers to conveniently compare the different technologies and find the best....
Release Date 2016/04 -
Embedded Computing for High Performance
Author Pedro C. Diniz , José Figueiredo Coutinho , João Paiva Cardoso
Embedded Computing for High Performance: Design Exploration and Customization Using High-level Compilation and Synthesis Tools provides a set of real-life example implementations that migrate traditional desktop systems to embedded systems. Working with popular har....
Release Date 2017/06 -
Author Igor Skrjanc , Saso Blazic , Andrej Zdesar , Gregor Klancar
Wheeled Mobile Robotics: From Fundamentals Towards Autonomous Systemscovers the main topics from the wide area of mobile robotics, explaining all applied theory and application. The book gives the reader a good foundation, enabling them to continue to more advanced....
Release Date 2017/02 -
Future of Utilities - Utilities of the Future
Author Fereidoon P. Sioshansi
Future of Utilities - Utilities of the Future: How technological innovations in distributed generation will reshape the electric power sector relates the latest information on the electric power sector its rapid transformation, particularly on the distribution net....
Release Date 2016/03 -
Regulation and Investments in Energy Markets
Author Ilhan Öztürk , Maria Costa Campi , Veronica Lenzi , Alessandro Rubino
Regulation & Investments in Energy Markets: Solutions for the Mediterranean presents the status of advancement and maturity of the Mediterranean energy policy, identifying patterns of development as well as lessons learned.Mediterranean countries are facing unp....
Release Date 2015/12 -
Securing the Internet of Things
Author Li Da Xu , Shancang Li
Securing the Internet of Things provides network and cybersecurity researchers and practitioners with both the theoretical and practical knowledge they need to know regarding security in the Internet of Things (IoT). This booming field, moving from strictly researc....
Release Date 2017/01 -
Intel Xeon Phi Processor High Performance Programming, 2nd Edition
Author Avinash Sodani , James Reinders , James Jeffers
Intel Xeon Phi Processor High Performance Programming is an all-in-one source of information for programming the Second-Generation Intel Xeon Phi product family also called Knights Landing. The authors provide detailed and timely Knights Landingspecific details, pr....
Release Date 2016/05 -
Author Amir Vahid Dastjerdi , Rajkumar Buyya
Internet of Things: Principles and Paradigms captures the state-of-the-art research in Internet of Things, its applications, architectures, and technologies. The book identifies potential future directions and technologies that facilitate insight into numerous scie....
Release Date 2016/05 -
Software Engineering for Embedded Systems, 2nd Edition
Author Mark Kraeling , Robert Oshana
Software Engineering for Embedded Systems: Methods, Practical Techniques, and Applications, Second Edition provides the techniques and technologies in software engineering to optimally design and implement an embedded system. Written by experts with a solution focu....
Release Date 2019/06 -
Author Boualem Benatallah , Lina Yao , Yongrui Qin , Michael Sheng
Managing the Web of Things: Linking the Real World to the Web presents a consolidated and holistic coverage of engineering, management, and analytics of the Internet of Things. The web has gone through many transformations, from traditional linking and sharing of c....
Release Date 2017/02 -
Optimization of Manufacturing Systems Using the Internet of Things
Author Fei Tao , Yingfeng Zhang
Optimization of Manufacturing Systems Using the Internet of Things extends the IoT (Internet of Things) into the manufacturing field to develop an IoMT (Internet of Manufacturing Things) architecture with real-time traceability, visibility, and interoperability in ....
Release Date 2016/10 -
Fundamentals of Ocean Renewable Energy
Author M Hashemi , Simon P. Neill
Fundamentals of Ocean Renewable Energy: Generating Electricity from the Sea presents the basic concepts of mechanics and introduces the various technical aspects of ocean renewable energy. Contents follow a logical sequence, starting with hydrodynamics and then sep....
Release Date 2018/06