Instrumentation and Control Systems, Third Edition, addresses the basic principles of modern instrumentation and control systems, including examples of the latest devices, techniques and applications. The book provides a comprehensive introduction on the subject, with Laplace presented in a simple and easily accessible form and complemented by an outline of the mathematics that would be required to progress to more advanced levels of study. Taking...

Understand the current and future research into technologies that underpin the increasing capabilities of automation technologies and their impact on the working world of the future. Rapid advances in automation and robotics technologies are often reported in the trade and general media, often relying on scary headlines such as "Jobs Lost to Robots." It is certainly true that work will change with the advent of smarter and faster automated workers;...

Autonomous and Connected Heavy Vehicle Technology presents the fundamentals, definitions, technologies, standards and future developments of autonomous and connected heavy vehicles. This book provides insights into various issues pertaining to heavy vehicle technology and helps users develop solutions towards autonomous, connected, cognitive solutions through the convergence of Big Data, IoT, cloud computing and cognition analysis. Various physical,...

"Teaches how to use C#'s set of core libraries to automate tasks like performing vulnerability scans, malware analysis, and incident response. Teaches how to write practical security tools that will run on Mac, Linux, and mobile devices"--

"Autonomous Mobile Robots and Multi-Robot Systems: Motion-Planning, Communication and Swarming covers the methods and algorithms for navigation, motion planning and control of mobile robots acting individually and in groups. Following recent challenges in locomotion, communication and control, the book addresses methods of positioning in global and local coordinates systems, off-line and on-line path-planning, sensing and sensors fusion, algorithms...

"Driving Automation: A Human Factors Perspective addresses a range of issues related to vehicle automation beyond the "how" or "can we" to "what will be the implications". It covers important topics including mental workload and malleable resources theory, effects of adaptive cruise control on mental workload, in-vehicle interface design, driver modeling and monitoring, eco-driving, responses to automation failure, and brake reaction time with automation"--...

"[Contains] more lengthy mathematical derivations than most {comparable books] ... for arrays, provides for a unique, stand-alone mathematical description that can be adopted by anyone trying to communicate the theoretical foundation for their array design ... has insights from a practitioner that are unique. The MATLAB® scripts alone are worth the price."--Daniel C. Ross, Ph. D, Northrop Grumman Corporation Electronically Scanned Arrays: MATLAB®...

"Provides a model-based "bridge" for signal processors/control engineers enabling a coupling and motivation for model development and subsequent processor designs/applications - Incorporates an in-depth treatment of the subspace approach that applies a variety of the subspace algorithm to synthesized examples and actual applications - Introduces new, fast subspace identifiers, capable of developing the required model for processing/controls Market...

Finding exciting and efficient ways to integrate data into control theory has been a problem of great interest. As most of the classical contributions in control strategy rely on model description, the issue of finding such a model from measured data, i.e., system identification, has become mature research filed.