Download or read book Nonlinear Systems written by A.J. Fossard and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nonlinear Systems is divided into three volumes. The first deals with modeling and estimation, the second with stability and stabilization and the third with control. This three-volume set provides the most comprehensive and detailed reference available on nonlinear systems. Written by a group of leading experts in the field, drawn from industry, government and academic institutions, it provides a solid theoretical basis on nonlinear control methods as well as practical examples and advice for engineers, teachers and researchers working with nonlinear systems. Each book focuses on the applicability of the concepts introduced and keeps the level of mathematics to a minimum. Simulations and industrial examples drawn from aerospace as well as mechanical, electrical and chemical engineering are given throughout.

Download or read book Outils de mise en uvre industrielle des techniques formelles written by BOULANGER Jean-Louis and published by Lavoisier. This book was released on 2012-04-16 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les techniques formelles réalisent des modèles de spécifications et/ou de conception et servent principalement à l'analyse statique de code, à la démonstration du respect de propriété et à la bonne gestion des calculs sur les flottants. Différents domaines tels les systèmes de transport, la production d'énergie ou la santé prennent en compte l'implémentation de ces méthodes pour satisfaire les exigences de sécurité élevées des systèmes critiques. Leur mise en œuvre dans le cadre d'une application industrielle (application de grande taille, contrainte de coût et de délais, etc.) ne peut se faire que par l'emploi d'outils suffisamment matures et performants. Cet ouvrage collectif présente des exemples concrets d'utilisation des techniques formelles comme la méthode B, SCADE, MaTeLo, ControlBuild, SparkAda et POLYSPACE et des techniques de vérification associées. Il en identifie aussi les avantages et les difficultés.

Download or read book Innovative Algorithms and Techniques in Automation Industrial Electronics and Telecommunications written by Tarek Sobh and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-09-04 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book includes a set of rigorously reviewed world-class manuscripts addressing and detailing state-of-the-art research projects in the areas of Industrial Electronics, Technology, Automation, Telecommunications and Networking. The book includes selected papers from the conference proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial Electronics, Technology, Automation (IETA 2006) and International Conference on Telecommunications and Networking (TeNe 06).

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Download or read book Logic and Programming written by Michel. Parent and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In contrast to the effortless ease with which human beings control their limbs, the design of controllers for robotic manipulator arms is a detailed, meticulous business. Motors controlling the arms need to be started and stopped at just the right moment so that the performance demanded by the user may be achieved at the end of a complicated manoeuvre. And yet, the same user wishes to express the task for the robot in the simplest possible terms without reference to the minute details of control sequences that his task demands. It is the design of such inter faces between man and machine that is the subject of trus volume. Parent and Laurgeau develop the subject in a direct and logical order. They first explain the principles of maximal effort control which not only ensure that motors are driven to provide high accuracy, but also that this should be done with the least waste of energy and in the shortest possible time. In this context, they describe the operation of pneumatic logical devices that make rapid decisions at power levels that exceed, by several orders, those that can be achieved with electronic devices. They achieve this whilst keeping the reader aware of the logical principles that are involved in the design of master control units: the devices responsible for appropriate actions being taken as a function of time.

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Download or read book Research and Development in Expert Systems IX written by British Computer Society. Specialist Group on Expert Systems. Technical Conference and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-02-04 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the refereed and invited papers which were presented at Expert Systems 92, the twelfth annual conference of the British Computer Society's Specialist Group on Expert Systems, held in Cambridge in December 1992. Together with its predecessors this is essential reading for those who wish to keep up-to-date with developments and opportunities in this important field.

Download or read book Research Into Spinal Deformities 2 written by I. A. F. Stokes and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diagnosis and Treatment of Spine Deformities in Children at Specialized Centre -- Session 5: Rationalized Design of Individualized Treatment -- Biomechanical Simulations for Planning of Scoliosis Surgery -- Clinical Assessment of AIS -- Determination of Fixation Level of Osteosynthesis System with Knowledge Base -- 3D" Brace Treatment: "3D" Immediate Effect On Thoracic. Thoracolumbar and Lumbar Scoliotic Curves -- Treatment of Thoracolumbar and Lumbar Idiopathic Scoliotic Curves with the Progressive Action Short Brace (P.A.S.B.)Analysis of Results -- 3D Correction of Trunk Deformity in Patients with Idiopathic Scoliosis Using Cheneau Brace -- Social Effects of Boston Bracing -- Appendix. Clinical Application of 3-D Evaluation of Scoliosis -- Pre-IRSSD meeting Workshops held at Sainte-Justine Hospital, Montreal, Canada, 27 June, 1998. -- Workshop 1: Biomechanical Modelling of Scoliosis: What are the Priorities? -- Workshop 2: Usefulness of Computer Assisted Measurements During Surgery: Should we Continue? -- Workshop 3: Imaging Techniques, which Way to Go: X-Ray, CT Scans, MRI, Surface Topography, Etc.? -- Workshop 4: Aetiology and pattern of spinal deformities: should we continue to study biomechanical and 3D factors? -- Author Index

Download or read book The World Yearbook of Robotics Research and Development written by Sbornik Statei and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How quickly the technological 'flavour of the month' changes. At the beginning of the 1980's many saw 'robotics' as being something of a pana cea for those problems in the manufacturing industries which had been exacerbated by the world recession. Those working at the time in the field of robotics stressed that robots themselves were only part of the solution. Yet in many quarters the 'hype' for the new technology apparently knew few bounds, resulting, inexorably, in many industries painfully discover ing for themselves a new realism, closely followed by disillusionment. In its wider sense the term 'robotics' covers an extremely broad spec trum of technologies ranging from extremely flexible, highly sensory and integrated systems capable of handling a very diverse product range, through to comparatively inflexible, high volume systems which can merely handle slightly different variations of the same basic product. As a result of the one 'buzzword' referring to such a variety of actual system types, the disillusionment which started to become apparent during the early 1980's acted as something of a double edged sword. A given com pany might consider a particular robotics-based technological solution to its production problems, find that it was unsuitable, and so renounce all robotics approaches as inappropriate. Yet just because one position on that spectrum of technological solutions was unsuitable for the company should not have led them to assume that there was no other robotics solu tion that was appropriate.

Download or read book European Control Conference 1991 written by and published by European Control Association. This book was released on 1991-07-02 with total page 1012 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of the European Control Conference 1991, July 2-5, 1991, Grenoble, France

Download or read book Power Transmission and Motion Control PTMC 2002 written by Clifford R. Burrows and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2002-11-08 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest research on power transmission systems Power Transmission and Motion Control is a collection of papers showcased at the 2002 PTMC conference at the University of Bath. Representing the work of researchers and industry leaders from around the world, this book features the latest developments in power transmission media and systems, with an emphasis on pneumatic and hydraulic devices and systems. Insight into current projects on the forefront of technology and innovation provides an overview of the current state of the field while informing ongoing work and suggesting direction for future projects.

Download or read book Developmental SystemS written by Stefan Wegrzyn and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many facts were at the origin of the present monograph. The ftrst is the beauty of maple leaves in Quebec forests in Fall. It raised the question: how does nature create and reproduce such beautiful patterns? The second was the reading of A. Lindenmayer's works on L systems. Finally came the discovery of "the secrets of DNA" together with many stimulating ex changes with biologists. Looking at such facts from the viewpoint of recursive numerical systems led to devise a simple model based on six elementary operations organized in a generating word, the analog of the program of a computer and of the genetic code of DNA in the cells of a living organism. It turned out that such a model, despite its simplicity, can account for a great number of properties of living organisms, e.g. their hierarchical structure, their ability to regenerate after a trauma, the possibility of cloning, their sensitivity to mutation, their growth, decay and reproduction. The model lends itself to analysis: the knowledge of the generating word makes it possible to predict the structure of the successive developmental stages of the system; and to synthesis: a speciftc type of structure can be obtained by systematically constructing a generating word that produces it. In fact the model here proposed is coherent with the fundamental assumptions of cellular biology and in particular with recent discoveries concerning DNA, which in the light of our model behaves like a very elaborate generating word.

Download or read book Proceedings of EUCOMES 08 written by Marco Ceccarelli and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-11-27 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The EUCOMES08, Second European Conference on Mechanism Science is the second event of a series that has been started in 2006 as a conference activity for an European community working in Mechanism Science. The ?rst event was held in Obergurgl, Austria in 2006. This year EUCOMES08 Conference has come to Cassino in Italy taking place from 17 to 20 September 2008. TheaimoftheEUCOMESConference istobringtogetherEuropean researchers, industry professionals and students from the broad ranges of disciplines referring to Mechanism Science, in an intimate, collegial and stimulating environment. In this second event we have received an increased attention to the initiative, as canbeseenbythefactthattheEUCOMES08Proceedingswillcontaincontributions by authors even from all around the world. This means also that there is a really interest to have not only a conference frame but even a need of aggregation for an European Community well identi?ed in Mechanism Science with the aim to strengthen common views and collaboration activities among European researchers and institutions. I believe that a reader will take advantage of the papers in these Proceedings with further satisfaction and motivation for her or his work. These papers cover the wide ?eld of the Mechanism Science. The program of EUCOMES08 Conference has included technical sessions with oral presentations, which, together with informal conversations during the social program, have enabled to offer wide opportunities to share experiences and discuss scienti?c achievements and current trends in the areas encompassed by the EUCOMES08 conference.

Download or read book Fuzzy Sets and Systems written by Didier J. Dubois and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 1980-12-01 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fuzzy Sets and Systems

Download or read book Ergonomics Of Working Postures written by E. N. Corlett and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1986-10-09 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based on an international symposium on the Ergonomics of Working Postures, at Zadar. It explores fairly specific areas of occupational ergonomics with the purpose of drawing together major current trends.

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