Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS). The aim of this special volume is to facilitate the exchange of information on the best practice for handling multifunctional materials, active materials, enabling technologies and integrated system design, and intelligent systems and applications, etc.
The aim of this special volume is to facilitate the exchange of information on the best practice for handling multifunctional materials, active materials, enabling technologies and integrated system design, and intelligent systems and applications, etc. It will provide an opportunity for engineers and scientists in academia, industry and government to address the most innovative research and development topics, including those affecting technical challenges, social and economic issues, and to discuss their ideas, data, work-in-progress and experience concerning all aspects of smart materials and intelligent systems.
Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS). The aim of this special volume is to facilitate the exchange of information on the best practices for multifunctional materials, active materials, enabling technologies and integrated system design, intelligent systems and applications, etc. It provided an opportunity for engineers and scientists in academia, industry and government to address the most innovative research and developments, including technical challenges, social and economic issues, and to discuss their ideas and results in all aspects of Smart Materials and Intelligent Systems.
The aim of this special volume is to facilitate the exchange of information on the best practices for multifunctional materials, active materials, enabling technologies and integrated system design, intelligent systems and applications, etc. It provided an opportunity for engineers and scientists in academia, industry and government to address the most innovative research and developments, including technical challenges, social and economic issues, and to discuss their ideas and results in all aspects of Smart Materials and Intelligent Systems.
This book focuses on the development and methodologies of trajectory control of differential-drive wheeled nonholonomic mobile robots. The methodologies are based on kinematic models (posture and configuration) and dynamic models, both subject to uncertainties and/or disturbances. The control designs are developed in rectangular coordinates obtained from the first-order sliding mode control in combination with the use of soft computing techniques, such as fuzzy logic and artificial neural networks. Control laws, as well as online learning and adaptation laws, are obtained using the stability analysis for both the developed kinematic and dynamic controllers, based on Lyapunov’s stability theory. An extension to the formation control with multiple differential-drive wheeled nonholonomic mobile robots in trajectory tracking tasks is also provided. Results of simulations and experiments are presented to verify the effectiveness of the proposed control strategies for trajectory tracking situations, considering the parameters of an industrial and a research differential-drive wheeled nonholonomic mobile robot, the PowerBot. Supplementary materials such as source codes and scripts for simulation and visualization of results are made available with the book.
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the embryonic field of smart materials and structures, and also presents a state-of-the-art review of the sub-disciplines of the field. It informs readers of the technical challenges to the commercialisation of products incorporating these material technologies.
This new edition of our 2016 book provides insight into designing intelligent materials and structures for special application in engineering. Literature is updated throughout and a new chapter on optics fibers has been added. The book discusses simulation and experimental determination of physical material properties, such as piezoelectric effects, shape memory, electro-rheology, and distributed control for vibrations minimization.
Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS). The 2012 International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Applied Material s(GSAM 2012) was the premier forum for the presentation of technological advances and research results in these fields. The proceedings comprise 288 peer-reviewed papers which should be required reading matter for anyone dealing with these topics.