http://www.freebookspot.es Latest books added today en-us http://www.freebookspot.es/logorss.jpg http://www.freebookspot.es 160 43 http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=387939 This book is intended for an introductory undergraduate course in control systems for engineering students. This text presents a comprehensive analysis and design of continuous-time control systems and includes more than introductory material for discrete systems with adequate guidelines to extend the results derived in connection continuous-time systems. The prerequisite for the reader is some elementary knowledge of differential equations, vector-matrix analysis and mechanics. Transfer function and state variable models of typical components and subsystems have been derived in the Appendix at the end of the book. Most of the materials including solved and unsolved problems presented in the book have been class-tested in senior undergraduates and first year graduate courses in the field of control systems at the Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering Department, Jadavpur University. MATLAB is the most widely used CAD software package in universities throughout the world. Some representative MATLAB scripts used for solving problems are included at the end of each chapter. The detailed design steps of fuzzy logic based controller using Simulink and MATLAB has been provided in the book to give the student a head start in this emerging discipline. A chapter has been included to deal with nonlinear components and their analysis MATLAB and SIMULINK through user defined s-functions. Finally, a chapter has been included to deal with the implementation of digital controll Read more...
]]> Wed, 05 Jun 2013 20:41:13 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=387259 An elegantly written, introductory overview of the field, with a near perfect choice of what to include and what not, enlivened in places by historical tidbits and made eminently readable throughout by crisp language. It has succeeded in doing the near-impossible—it has made a subject which is generally inhospitable to nonspecialists because of its ‘family jargon’ appear nonintimidating even to a beginning graduate student. Read more...
]]> Tue, 04 Jun 2013 12:39:42 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=381767 Developments in Control Theory Towards Glocal Control (Iet Control Engineering) Read more...
]]> Sun, 19 May 2013 19:34:33 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=381763 -Provides a unified practically orientated treatment to many constrained control paradigms -Helps to reduce the gap between the available constrained control literature and industrial applications Contents: Constraints in feedback systems. Dealing with constraints in SISO control. Some practical case studies. Relevant tools for dynamic decoupling. Constrained dynamic decoupling. Improving decoupling in decentralised control. Partial decoupling and non-minimum phase systems. MIMO bumpless transfer. The Institution of Engineering and Technology is one of the world's leading professional societies for the engineering and technology community. The IET publishes more than 100 new titles every year a rich mix of books, journals and magazines with a back catalogue of more than 350 books in 18 different subject areas including: -Power and Energy -Renewable Energy -Radar, Sonar and Navigation -Electromagnetics -Electrical Measurement -History of Technology -Technology Management Read more...
]]> Sun, 19 May 2013 19:24:45 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=381179 This informative text for graduate students, researchers and practitioners working on mobile wireless sensor networks provides theoretical based algorithms with a focus towards practical implementation. The Institution of Engineering and Technology is one of the world's leading professional societies for the engineering and technology community. The IET publishes more than 100 new titles every year a rich mix of books, journals and magazines with a back catalogue of more than 350 books in 18 different subject areas including: -Power and Energy -Renewable Energy -Radar, Sonar and Navigation -Electromagnetics -Electrical Measurement -History of Technology -Technology Management Read more...
]]> Sat, 18 May 2013 00:44:42 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=381170 Structured around a number of concepts that are central to control theory, this book manages to emphasise each concept without overwhelming with detail but whilst also including examples to ensure clarity. The extensively annotated bibliography is referenced by links from the text to ensure that the reader is able to follow-up their understanding and knowledge as required. To start, the first 3 chapters of the book forms a useful introduction to the control subject for a wide class of readers. These chapters aim to explain what control theory is, what the main ideas of it are and what are the features that make the subject so fascinating and universally useful. This simple framework is studded with reference to more detailed treatments and with interludes that are intended to inform and entertain. Overall the book is intended as a companion on the journey through control theory and although the early chapters concentrate on simple ideas such as feedback and stability, later chapters deal with more advanced topics such as state variables, optimisation, estimation, Kalman filtering and robust control. Read more...
]]> Fri, 17 May 2013 23:57:03 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=381151 Fifteen contributions provide an up-to-date treatment of issues in system modeling, system analysis, design and synthesis methods, and nonlinear systems. Coverage includes the application of multidimensional Laplace transforms to the modeling of nonlinear elements, a survey of customized computer algebra modeling programs for multibody dynamical systems, robust control of linear systems using a new linear programming approach, the development and testing of a new branch-and-bound algorithm fir global optimization using symbolic algebra techniques, and dynamic sliding mode control design using symbolic algebra tools. Read more...
]]> Fri, 17 May 2013 23:06:59 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=375694 Further Advances in Unmanned Marine Vehicles (Control Engineering) (Iet Control Engineering Series) Read more...
]]> Fri, 03 May 2013 06:23:44 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=375160 Product Description: Many real systems are composed of multi-state components with different performance levels and several failure modes. These affect the whole system's performance. Most books on reliability theory cover binary models that allow a system only to function perfectly or fail completely. "The Universal Generating Function in Reliability Analysis and Optimization" is the first book that gives a comprehensive description of the universal generating function technique and its applications in binary and multi-state system reliability analysis. Features: - an introduction to basic tools of multi-state system reliability and optimization - applications of the universal generating function in widely used multi-state systems - examples of the adaptation of the universal generating function to different systems in mechanical, industrial and software engineering. This monograph will be of value to anyone interested in system reliability, performance analysis and optimization in industrial, electrical and nuclear engineering. Read more...
]]> Wed, 01 May 2013 14:34:37 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=374407 This book offers a compact introduction to modern linear control design. The simplified overview presented of linear time-domain methodology paves the road for the study of more advanced non-linear techniques. Only rudimentary knowledge of linear systems theory is assumed - no use of Laplace transforms or frequency design tools is required. Emphasis is placed on assumptions and logical implications, rather than abstract completeness on interpretation and physical meaning, rather than theoretical formalism on results and solutions, rather than derivation or solvability. The topics covered include transient performance and stabilization via state or output feedback disturbance attenuation and robust control regional eigenvalue assignment and constraints on input or output variables asymptotic regulation and disturbance rejection. Lyapunov theory and Linear Matrix Inequalities (LMI) are discussed as key design methods. All methods are demonstrated with MATLAB to promote practical use and comprehension. Read more...
]]> Mon, 29 Apr 2013 23:01:14 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=373662 Fault-Tolerant Process Control focuses on the development of general, yet practical, methods for the design of advanced fault-tolerant control systems these ensure an efficient fault detection and a timely response to enhance fault recovery, prevent faults from propagating or developing into total failures, and reduce the risk of safety hazards. To this end, methods are presented for the design of advanced fault-tolerant control systems for chemical processes which explicitly deal with actuator/controller failures and sensor faults and data losses. Specifically, the book puts forward: · A framework for detection, isolation and diagnosis of actuator and sensor faults for nonlinear systems · Controller reconfiguration and safe-parking-based fault-handling methodologies · Integrated-data- and model-based fault-detection and isolation and fault-tolerant control methods · Methods for handling sensor faults and data losses and · Methods for monitoring the performance of low-level PID loops. The methodologies proposed employ nonlinear systems analysis, Lyapunov techniques, optimization, statistical methods and hybrid systems theory and are predicated upon the idea of integrating fault-detection, local feedback control, and supervisory control. The applicability and performance of the methods are demonstrated through a number of chemical process examples. Fault-Tolerant Process Control is a valuable resource for academic researchers, industrial practitioners as well as graduate Read more...
]]> Sun, 28 Apr 2013 09:18:04 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=373624 This monograph presents new model-based design methods for trajectory planning, feedback stabilization, state estimation, and tracking control of distributed-parameter systems governed by partial differential equations (PDEs). Flatness and backstepping techniques and their generalization to PDEs with higher-dimensional spatial domain lie at the core of this treatise. This includes the development of systematic late lumping design procedures and the deduction of semi-numerical approaches using suitable approximation methods. Theoretical developments are combined with both simulation examples and experimental results to bridge the gap between mathematical theory and control engineering practice in the rapidly evolving PDE control area. The text is divided into five parts featuring: - a literature survey of paradigms and control design methods for PDE systems - the first principle mathematical modeling of applications arising in heat and mass transfer, interconnected multi-agent systems, and piezo-actuated smart elastic structures - the generalization of flatness-based trajectory planning and feedforward control to parabolic and biharmonic PDE systems defined on general higher-dimensional domains - an extension of the backstepping approach to the feedback control and observer design for parabolic PDEs with parallelepiped domain and spatially and time varying parameters - the development of design techniques to realize exponentially stabilizing tracking control - the evaluation i Read more...
]]> Sun, 28 Apr 2013 07:47:13 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=373595 This sound introduction to classical and modern control theory concentrates on fundamental concepts. Employing the minimum of mathematical elaboration, it investigates the many applications of control theory to varied and important present-day problems, e.g. economic growth, resource depletion, disease epidemics, exploited population, and rocket trajectories. An original feature is the amount of space devoted to the important and fascinating subject of optimal control. The work is divided into two parts. Part 1 deals with the control of linear time-continuous systems, using both transfer function and state-space methods. Read more...
]]> Sun, 28 Apr 2013 06:27:45 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=373420 Product Description: The present book includes a set of selected papers from the 3rd “International Conference on Informatics in Control Automation and Robotics” (ICINCO 2006), held in Setubal, Portugal, 1-5 August 2006. The conference was organized in three simultaneous tracks: “Intelligent Control Systems and Optimization”, “Robotics and Automation” and “Systems Modeling, Signal Processing and Control”. The book is based on the same structure. The purpose of this conference is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in the application of informatics to Control, Automation and Robotics. Informatics applications are pervasive in many areas of Control, Automation and Robotics, and this conference intends to emphasize this connection, therefore, most papers highlight applications of Information Technology (IT) in these areas and present ideas on how to solve problems using IT, both in R and D and industrial applications. A diversity of papers are included in the book, ranging from papers describing advanced prototypes, systems, tools and techniques to papers presenting surveys indicating future directions. Read more...
]]> Sat, 27 Apr 2013 16:12:24 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=371818 The book blends the areas of adaptive inverse control and signal processing in ways not presented in any other book, allowing engineers in both fields to share tools and techniques. In the words of one reviewer, "The philosophy is quite refreshing and should entice signal processing specialists to delve more into control, and control theorists to revisit many of their current assumptions and methodologies." Clearly and intuitively written, the book presents theory, but its emphasis is on practical applications and common sense understanding. Most chapters include a summary at its end as a way of consolidating the information presented. The book's first chapter features an overview of the book's contents written to use jargon only sparingly (and always explaining it where used). The book enables signal processing people to solve control problems and teaches signal processing methods, particularly adaptive signal processing, and makes them available to control engineers. There is no other book that does control and signal processing as this book does. Theory is presented, but the emphasis is on practical applications and common sense understanding. The ideas are presented to appeal to the intuition. Insight and intuition are often hard to find in the control and signal-processing literature. Defeating obscurity was one of the main objectives of the authors in writing the text. Read more...
]]> Tue, 23 Apr 2013 18:51:31 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=370679 This book summarizes the main results achieved in a four-year European Project on nonlinear and adaptive control. The project involves leading researchers from top-notch institutions: Imperial College London (Prof A Astolfi), Lund University (Prof A Rantzer), Supelec Paris (Prof R Ortega), University of Technology of Compiegne (Prof R Lozano), Grenoble Polytechnic (Prof C Canudas de Wit), University of Twente (Prof A van der Schaft), Politecnico of Milan (Prof S Bittanti), and Polytechnic University of Valencia (Prof P Albertos). The book also provides an introduction to theoretical advances in nonlinear and adaptive control and an overview of novel applications of advanced control theory, particularly topics on the control of partially known systems, under-actuated systems, and bioreactors. Read more...
]]> Sat, 20 Apr 2013 15:51:47 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=367394 This book promotes the benefits of the development and application of energy information and control systems. This wave of information technology (IT) and web-based energy information and control systems (web based EIS/ECS) continues to roll on with increasing speed and intensity. This handbook presents recent technological advancements in the field, as well as a compilation of the best information from three previous books in this area. The combined thrust of this information is that the highest level functions of the building and facility automation system are delivered by a web based EIS/ECS system that provides energy management, facility management, overall facility operational management and ties in with the enterprise resource management system for the entire facility or the group of facilities being managed. Read more...
]]> Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:27:49 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=367319 This unique book presents an analytical uniform design methodology of continuous-time or discrete-time nonlinear control system design which guarantees desired transient performances in the presence of plant parameter variations and unknown external disturbances. All results are illustrated with numerical simulations, their practical importance is highlighted, and they may be used for real-time control system design in robotics, mechatronics, chemical reactors, electrical and electro-mechanical systems as well as aircraft control systems. The book is easy reading and is suitable for teaching. Read more...
]]> Fri, 12 Apr 2013 11:17:05 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=365902 Proceedings of the 9th International Conference held at Antibes in June 1990, on a variety of optimization issues. This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition. Read more...
]]> Mon, 08 Apr 2013 22:42:19 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=363906 Robot Manipulator Control offers a complete survey of control systems for serial-link robot arms and acknowledges how robotic device performance hinges upon a well-developed control system. Containing over 750 essential equations, this thoroughly up-to-date Second Edition, the book explicates theoretical and mathematical requisites for controls design and summarizes current techniques in computer simulation and implementation of controllers. It also addresses procedures and issues in computed-torque, robust, adaptive, neural network, and force control. New chapters relay practical information on commercial robot manipulators and devices and cutting-edge methods in neural network control. Read more...
]]> Wed, 03 Apr 2013 22:27:07 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=360504 This is a text on state variable modelling,analysis and control of dynamical systems. Read more...
]]> Tue, 26 Mar 2013 23:15:57 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=356577 This book has been inspired by the portfolio of recent scientific outputs from a range of European and national research initiatives in cognitive science. Its aim is to compile the various emerging research strands within a single text as a reference point for progress in the field and as a guide for new researchers on the breadth of the field and the interconnections between the various research strands identified here. This compliation will be of interest not only to those working in the fields of computer science and AI but also to psychologists, neural scientists and engineers involved in the development of advanced robotics, mechatronic and HCI systems. CONTENTS The embodiment paradigm and the emerging cognitive architecture Cognitivism versus Emergentism Humanoid robotic development Interaction with symbolic systems Understanding bodily anticipation Understanding and modelling chaotic behaviour Modelling dynamic social complexity Understanding speech production Realistic behaviour in game playing The effect of music on emotional reactions Diversity in cognitive models. RELATED TITLES Flexible Robot Manipulators: Modelling, simulation and control. 978-0-86341-448-0. 2008 Motion Vision: Design of compact motion sensing solutions for navigation of autonomous systems. 978-0-86341-453-4. 2005 Programming Industrial Control Systems Using IEC 1131-3. 978-0-85296-950-2. 1998. The Institution of Engineering and Technology is one of the world's leading pro Read more...
]]> Mon, 18 Mar 2013 12:52:41 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=353710 This symposium aims to explore the current state of the art in control of industrial processes in the field of extraction and processing of metals and materials. New sensor technologies, more advanced real-time models, and faster computers are enabling better control systems for these processes. Specific topics include but are not limited to: (1) novel sensors for hostile-environment materials processes, such as online inclusion detection, temperature, and velocity in molten materials, surface condition of hot moving products, etc. (2) innovative online sampling and analysis techniques, (3) models for real-time process control and quality monitoring systems (4) process automation, scheduling, and plant-wide logistics optimization, (5) control of composition, temperature, microstructure, and morphology in sintering, smelting, refining, solidification, reheating, deformation, and transport of ores, slags, mattes, metals, materials, and aqueous solutions (6) prediction, monitoring, control, and optimization of process parameters in these systems (7) control in manufacturing processes, including casting, annealing, forging, rolling, extrusion, powder metallurgy, electronic materials, welding, etc. (8) control of impurities and environmentally undesirable components in product and waste streams. Read more...
]]> Tue, 12 Mar 2013 17:35:59 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=351145 Mathematical control theory has evolved from the study of practical problems in engineering and sciences to the elaboration of deep, important concepts in mathematics and applied sciences. This volume concerns contemporary trends in nonlinear geometric control theory and its applications. It is a fine collection of papers presenting new results, relevant open problems, and important applications regarding academic and real-world problems. The book is dedicated to Velimir Jurdjevic whose scientific activity has been influential in the research of many of the authors. It contains a number of articles specially written by colleagues and friends of Vel Jurdjevic, all of them leading applied mathematicians and control theorists. There is also place for surveys on topics of current research which present the state of the art of modern geometric control theory. Finally, the volume contains several new mathematical ideas generated by geometric control theory techniques, which may initiate new directions of research beyond control theory. Read more...
]]> Thu, 07 Mar 2013 09:51:47 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=351143 The book gives a novel treatment of recent advances on constrained control problems of discrete processes. The new proposed approach provides the right setting for the study of qualitative properties of general types of dynamical systems in both discrete-time and continuous-time systems with possible applications to some control engineering models. Most of the material appears for the first time in a book form. The book is addressed to advanced students, postgraduate students and researchers interested in control system theory and optimal control. Read more...
]]> Thu, 07 Mar 2013 09:47:41 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=347835 There are plenty of challenging and interesting problems open for investigation in the field of switched systems. Stability issues help to generate many complex nonlinear dynamic behaviors within switched systems. The authors present a thorough investigation of stability effects on three broad classes of switching mechanism: arbitrary switching where stability represents robustness to unpredictable and undesirable perturbation, constrained switching, including random (within a known stochastic distribution), dwell-time (with a known minimum duration for each subsystem) and autonomously-generated (with a pre-assigned mechanism) switching and designed switching in which a measurable and freely-assigned switching mechanism contributes to stability by acting as a control input. For each of these classes this book propounds: detailed stability analysis and/or design, related robustness and performance issues, connections to other control problems and many motivating and illustrative examples. Read more...
]]> Thu, 28 Feb 2013 03:15:08 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=345449 The book presents basic structures, concepts and algorithms in the area of multilayer optimizing control of industrial systems, as well as the results of the research that was carried out by the authors over the last two decades. The methodologies and control algorithms are thoroughly illustrated by numerous simulation examples. Also, the applications to several case study examples are presented. These include ethylene distillation column, vaporizer pilot scale plant, styrene distillation line consisting of three columns and industrial furnace pilot scale plant. A temporal decomposition is applied to the Integrated Wastewater System case study to derive multilayer dynamic optimizing controller with repetitive robust model predictive control mechanism distributed over the layers operating in different time scales. Read more...
]]> Fri, 22 Feb 2013 11:31:45 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=343684 Rapid advances in electronic and optical technology have enabled the implementation of powerful error-control codes, which are now used in almost the entire range of information systems with close to optimal performance. These codes and decoding methods are required for the detection and correction of the errors and erasures which inevitably occur in digital information during transmission, storage and processing because of noise, interference and other imperfections. Error-control coding is a complex, novel and unfamiliar area, not yet widely understood and appreciated. This book sets out to provide a clear description of the essentials of the subject, with comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of the most useful codes and their decoding algorithms. A practical engineering and information technology emphasis, as well as relevant background material and fundamental theoretical aspects, provides an in-depth guide to the essentials of Error-Control Coding. * Provides extensive and detailed coverage of Block, Cyclic, BCH, Reed-Solomon, Convolutional, Turbo, and Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) codes, together with relevant aspects of Information Theory * EXIT chart performance analysis for iteratively decoded error-control techniques * Heavily illustrated with tables, diagrams, graphs, worked examples, and exercises * Invaluable companion website features slides of figures, algorithm software, updates and solutions to problems? Read more...
]]> Mon, 18 Feb 2013 10:50:14 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=343229 Optimize the operation of your plant and process through a practical understanding of control systems and control loop tuning. "This book is aimed at engineers and technicians who need to have a clear, practical understanding of the essentials of process control, loop tuning and how to optimize the operation of their particular plant or process." - Chemical Engineering Progress Read more...
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]]> Thu, 14 Feb 2013 23:04:33 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=341011 Decision making and control are two fields with distinct methods for solving problems, and yet they are closely related. This book bridges the gap between decision making and control in the field of fuzzy decisions and fuzzy control, and discusses various ways in which fuzzy decision making methods can be applied to systems modeling and control. Fuzzy decision making is a powerful paradigm for dealing with human expert knowledge when one is designing fuzzy model-based controllers. The combination of fuzzy decision making and fuzzy control in this book can lead to novel control schemes that improve the existing controllers in various ways. The following applications of fuzzy decision making methods for designing control systems are considered: * Fuzzy decision making for enhancing fuzzy modeling. The values of important parameters in fuzzy modeling algorithms are selected by using fuzzy decision making. * Fuzzy decision making for designing signal-based fuzzy controllers. The controller mappings and the defuzzification steps can be obtained by decision making methods. * Fuzzy design and performance specifications in model-based control. Fuzzy constraints and fuzzy goals are used. * Design of model-based controllers combined with fuzzy decision modules. Human operator experience is incorporated for the performance specification in model-based control. The advantages of bringing together fuzzy control and fuzzy decision making are shown with multiple exampl Read more...
]]> Tue, 12 Feb 2013 09:19:41 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=340128 State-space methods form the basis of modern control theory. This textbook is devoted to a description of these methods in the analysis of linear multi-input, multi-output dynamic systems. Following a chapter that sets out the basic concepts and definitions, the author discusses state equations of finite dimensional systems and their solution. He then presents the principles of time-domain and frequency-domain analysis, and the properties and applications of the Z-transformation. Separate chapters deal with the controllability, observability, and stability of linear systems. The appendix offers a useful tutorial review of the key results from matrix theory and linear algebra. The book includes several worked examples, and there are problems at the end of each chapter. It will be of great use to advanced undergraduate and graduate students of electrical or mechanical engineering taking courses in linear systems or control systems. Read more...
]]> Sun, 10 Feb 2013 16:02:44 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=340053 This is a textbook and reference for readers interested in quasilinear control (QLC). QLC is a set of methods for performance analysis and design of linear plant or nonlinear instrumentation (LPNI) systems. The approach of QLC is based on the method of stochastic linearization, which reduces the nonlinearities of actuators and sensors to quasilinear gains. Unlike the usual - Jacobian linearization - stochastic linearization is global. Using this approximation, QLC extends most of the linear control theory techniques to LPNI systems. A bisection algorithm for solving these equations is provided. In addition, QLC includes new problems, specific for the LPNI scenario. Examples include Instrumented LQR/LQG, in which the controller is designed simultaneously with the actuator and sensor, and partial and complete performance recovery, in which the degradation of linear performance is either contained by selecting the right instrumentation or completely eliminated by the controller boosting. Read more...
]]> Sun, 10 Feb 2013 13:32:29 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=339716 This engineering textbook is designed to introduce advanced control systems for vehicles, including advanced automotive concepts and the next generation of vehicles for ITS. For each automotive control problem considered, the authors emphasize the physics and underlying principles behind the control system concept and design. This is an exciting and rapidly developing field for which many articles and reports exist but no modern unifying text. An extensive list of references is provided at the end of each chapter for all the topics covered. It is currently the only textbook, including problems and examples, that that covers and integrates the topics of automotive powertrain control, vehicle control, and intelligent transportation systems. The emphasis is on fundamental concepts and methods for automotive control systems, rather than the rapidly changing specific technologies. Many of the text examples, as well as the end-of-chapter problems, require the use of MATLAB and/or SIMULINK. Read more...
]]> Sat, 09 Feb 2013 18:54:24 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=339319 Automatic control systems have become essential features in virtually every area of technology, from machine tools to aerospace vehicles. This book is a comprehensive, clearly written introduction to automatic control engineering. The author begins with the fundamentals of modeling mechanical, electrical, and electromechanical systems in the state variable format. The emphasis is on classical feedback control theory and design, and their application to practical electromechanical and aerospace problems. Following a careful grounding in classical control theory, the author introduces modern control theory, including digital control and nonlinear system analysis. Over 230 problems help the reader apply principles discussed in the text to practical engineering situations. Engineering students and practicing engineers will find what they need to know about control system analysis and design in this valuable text. Solutions manual available. Read more...
]]> Fri, 08 Feb 2013 11:25:59 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=337636 This book focuses on the research topics investigated during the three-year research project funded by the Italian Ministero dell Istruzione, dell UniversitA e della Ricerca (MIUR: Ministry of Education, University and Research) under the FIRB project RBNE01CW3M. With the aim of introducing newer perspectives of the research on complexity, the final results of the project are presented after a general introduction to the subject. The book is intended to provide researchers, PhD students, and people involved in research projects in companies with the basic fundamentals of complex systems and the advanced project results recently obtained. Contents: The CNN Paradigm for Complexity Emergent Phenomena in Neuroscience Frequency Analysis and Identification in Atomic Force Microscopy Control and Parameter Estimation of Systems with Low-Dimensional Chaos -- The Role of Peak-to-Peak Dynamics Synchronization of Complex Networks Economic Sector Identification in a Set of Stocks Traded at the New York Exchange: A Comparative Analysis Innovation Systems by Nonlinear Networks. Read more...
]]> Mon, 04 Feb 2013 13:59:28 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=335587 Leaders of nonprofit organizations deliver programs and services vital to the quality of life in the United States. All the activities of our religious communities the vast majority of the arts and culture, human services, and community development pursuits as well as education and environmental advocacies take root and deliver their services within the nonprofit sector. Welcome to the world of leadership in nonprofit organizations. This sector offers an opportunity to serve as well as to lead. Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations: A Reference Handbook engages voices on issues and leadership topics important to those seeking to understand more about this dynamic sector of society. A major focus of this two-volume reference work is on the specific roles and skills required of the nonprofit leader in voluntary organizations. Key Features Presents contributions from a wide range of authors who reflect the variety, vibrancy, and creativity of the sector itself Provides an overview of the history of nonprofit organizations in our country Describes a robust and diverse assortment of organizations and opportunities for leadership Explores the nature of leadership and its complexity as exemplified in the nonprofit sector Includes topics such as personalities of nonprofit leaders vision and starting a nonprofit organization nonprofit law, statutes, taxation, and regulations strategic management financial management collaboration public relations for promoting a non Read more...
]]> Wed, 30 Jan 2013 21:13:54 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=335273 Dentro de los instrumentos esenciales en la instrumentacion industrial estan los sensores que miden las condiciones del proceso y las valvulas que influyen en las operaciones de dicho proceso. Para que un proceso sea exitoso se requiere una instrumentacion apropiada, los ingenieros deben entender los principios de los instrumentos mas comunes utilizados en la industria. Read more...
]]> Wed, 30 Jan 2013 03:37:27 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=335196 Transportation sustains economic and social activity and is central to operations research and management science. When operations research emerged as a structured field during World War II, some of the first problems investigated arose from the need to optimize military logistics and transportation activities. After the war ended, the scope of operations research applications broadened but transportation problems always occupied a central place. It is now widely recognized that some of the most successful applications of operations research are encountered in transportation, most significantly in the airline industry where it underlies almost every aspect of strategic, tactical and operational planning. This success story may be explained by a number of factors, the first being the economic importance of transportation. Also, the complexity and large scale of transportation problems call for powerful analytical techniques, and the high volumes involved imply that substantial savings can often be achieved through the use of optimization. Furthermore, transportation problems are highly structured, making them amenable to the use of efficient solution methods based on network optimization techniques and mathematical programming. Read more...
]]> Tue, 29 Jan 2013 23:45:19 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=334816 A global industry and an important tool for economic development, international tourism is facing an increasingly uncertain future. Global environmental change, including climate change increasing fuel prices and growing criticism from environmental and social interest groups are posing substantial challenges to the belief that international tourism can be sustainable at current rates and patterns of growth. This book therefore aims to answer the questions of if and how tourism can be a sustainable industry. The book concludes that sustainable tourism is possible but that it requires fundamental shifts in operations, systems and philosophies. The various contributions identify a number of means by which this can be accomplished but stress that sustainable tourism still has a long way to travel before it can reach its destination. Read more...
]]> Mon, 28 Jan 2013 18:52:14 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=334293 Product Description: Vibration is a natural phenomenon that occurs in a variety of engineering systems. In many circumstances, vibration greatly affects the nature of engineering design as it often dictates limiting factors in the performance of the system. The conventional treatment is to redesign the system or to use passive damping. The former could be a costly exercise, while the latter is only effective at higher frequencies. Active control techniques have emerged as viable technologies to fill this low-frequency gap. This book is concerned with the study of feedback controllers for vibration control of flexible structures, with a view to minimizing vibration over the entire body of the structure. The book introduces a variety of flexible structures such as beams, strings, and plates with specific boundary conditions, and explains in detail how a spatially distributed model of such systems can be obtained. It addresses the problems of model reduction and model correction for spatially distributed systems of high orders, and goes on to extend robust control techniques such as H-infinity and H2 control design methodologies to spatially distributed systems arising in active vibration control problems. It also addresses other important topics, such as actuator and sensor placement for flexible systems, and system identification for flexible structures with irregular boundary conditions. The text contains numerous examples, and experimental results obtained from laborator Read more...
]]> Sun, 27 Jan 2013 10:52:55 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=333792 At publication, The Control Handbook immediately became the definitive resource that engineers working with modern control systems required. Among its many accolades, that first edition was cited by the AAP as the Best Engineering Handbook of 1996. Now, 15 years later, William Levine has once again compiled the most comprehensive and authoritative resource on control engineering. He has fully reorganized the text to reflect the technical advances achieved since the last edition and has expanded its contents to include the multidisciplinary perspective that is making control engineering a critical component in so many fields. Now expanded from one to three volumes, The Control Handbook, Second Edition brilliantly organizes cutting-edge contributions from more than 200 leading experts representing every corner of the globe. The first volume, Control System Fundamentals, offers an overview for those new to the field but is also of great value to those across any number of fields whose work is reliant on but not exclusively dedicated to control systems. Covering mathematical fundamentals, defining principles, and basic system approaches, this volume Details essential background, including transforms and complex variables Includes mathematical and graphical models used for dynamical systems Covers analysis and design methods and stability testing for continuous-time systems Delves into digital control and discrete-time systems, including real-time software for implementing Read more...
]]> Sat, 26 Jan 2013 13:01:04 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=333591 Over the last 50 years or so, a number of textbooks, monographs and even popular books have been published on nonlinear control theory and design methods. In the area of classical control, for example, there exist books concerned with phase-plane analysis, describing function approach, absolute stability and so on. In the area of modern control there are those related to optimal control, using differential geometry and the differential algebra method, variable structural control, H-infinite control and so on. These books have been useful in promoting the development of automatic control science and technology. Since 1990 there have been many new results and contributions in the area of nonlinear control. This book introduces those topics to interested readers. It should also benefit automation engineers, researchers and scholars in related fields. Read more...
]]> Sat, 26 Jan 2013 00:10:41 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=333577 More than a decade ago, world-renowned control systems authority Frank L. Lewis introduced what would become a standard textbook on estimation, under the title Optimal Estimation, used in top universities throughout the world. The time has come for a new edition of this classic text, and Lewis enlisted the aid of two accomplished experts to bring the book completely up to date with the estimation methods driving today's high-performance systems. A Classic Revisited Optimal and Robust Estimation: With an Introduction to Stochastic Control Theory, Second Edition reflects new developments in estimation theory and design techniques. As the title suggests, the major feature of this edition is the inclusion of robust methods. Three new chapters cover the robust Kalman filter, H-infinity filtering, and H-infinity filtering of discrete-time systems. Modern Tools for Tomorrow's Engineers This text overflows with examples that highlight practical applications of the theory and concepts. Design algorithms appear conveniently in tables, allowing students quick reference, easy implementation into software, and intuitive comparisons for selecting the best algorithm for a given application. In addition, downloadable MATLAB® code allows students to gain hands-on experience with industry-standard software tools for a wide variety of applications. This cutting-edge and highly interactive text makes teaching, and learning, estimation methods easier and more modern than ever. Read more...
]]> Fri, 25 Jan 2013 23:09:00 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=332747 Catering and special events are a fast-growing area in today's food and beverage industry. On-premise catering accounts for about two-thirds of all catering sales, encompassing food produced on-sit in hotels, wedding facilities, conference centers, clubs and other venues. This book the only one of its kind covers the concepts and information that are essential to success in on-premise catering. Read more...
]]> Wed, 23 Jan 2013 22:25:23 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=331543 This work is intended to be of practical assistance in control engineering technology. It will help you to select and set up a suitable controller for various applications. It describes the different types of controller and the options for setting them up. The explanations and definitions are provided without using advanced mathematics, and are mainly applied to temperature-control loops. In this new and revised edition, Chapters 3 and 5 have been extensively updated. Read more...
]]> Sun, 20 Jan 2013 12:00:59 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=325025 Introduction to state-space methods covers feedback control state-space representation of dynamic systems and dynamics of linear systems frequency-domain analysis controllability and observability and shaping the dynamic response. Additional subjects encompass linear observers compensator design by the separation principle linear, quadratic optimum control random processes and Kalman filters. 1986 edition. Read more...
]]> Wed, 02 Jan 2013 16:14:47 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=322003 Feedback Control of MEMS to Atoms illustrates the use of control and control systems as an essential part of functioning integrated miniaturized systems. The book is organized according to the dimensional scale of the problem, starting with microscale systems and ending with atomic-scale systems. Similar to macroscale machines and processes, control systems can play a major role in improving the performance of micro- and nanoscale systems and in enabling new capabilities that would otherwise not be possible. The majority of problems at these scales present many new challenges that go beyond the current state-of-the-art in control theory and engineering. This is a result of the multidisciplinary nature of micro/nanotechnology, which requires the merging of control engineering with physics, biology and chemistry. This book: Shows how the utilization of feedback control in nanotechnology instrumentation can yield results far better than passive systems canDiscusses the application of control systems to problems in microelectromechanical systems, microfluidics, optical trapping, nanofabrication, and quantum dynamics, among othersCovers specific applications and the importance of controls in the use of MEMSActuators, Nanomanipulation, Micro Flow Control, and Micro-Scale Inertial SensorsFeedback Control of MEMS to Atoms is an ideal book for control systems researchers interested in pursuing new application in the micro- and nanoscale domains, and researchers developing micro- and n Read more...
]]> Mon, 24 Dec 2012 09:54:11 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=320501 This book aims to provide a concise account of the essential elements of quality control. It is designed to be used as a text for courses on quality control for students of industrial engineering at the advanced undergraduate, or as a reference for researchers in related fields seeking a concise treatment of the key concepts of quality control. The book is intended to give a contemporary account of procedures used to design quality models. Contents Preface Section 1 Statistical Quality Control 1 Toward a Better Quality Control of Weather Data 2 Applications of Control Charts Arima for Autocorrelated Data 3 New Models of Acceptance Sampling Plans Section 2 Total Quality Management 4 Accreditation of Biomedical Calibration Measurements in Turkey 5 Formation of Product Properties Determining Its Quality in a Multi-Operation Technological Process Read more...
]]> Thu, 20 Dec 2012 08:52:49 GMT http://www.freebookspot.es/Comments.aspx?Element_ID=318394 At publication, The Control Handbook immediately became the definitive resource that engineers working with modern control systems required. Among its many accolades, that first edition was cited by the AAP as the Best Engineering Handbook of 1996. Now, 15 years later, William Levine has once again compiled the most comprehensive and authoritative resource on control engineering. He has fully reorganized the text to reflect the technical advances achieved since the last edition and has expanded its contents to include the multidisciplinary perspective that is making control engineering a critical component in so many fields. Now expanded from one to three volumes, The Control Handbook, Second Edition organizes cutting-edge contributions from more than 200 leading experts. The third volume, Control System Advanced Methods, includes design and analysis methods for MIMO linear and LTI systems, Kalman filters and observers, hybrid systems, and nonlinear systems. It also covers advanced considerations regarding — Read more...
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