Advances in Intelligent Robotics and Collaborative Automation
Advances in Intelligent Robotics and Collaborative Automation

Author: Richard Duro

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2022-09-01

Total Pages: 363

ISBN-13: 1000795330

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This book provides an overview of a series of advanced research lines in robotics as well as of design and development methodologies for intelligent robots and their intelligent components. It represents a selection of extended versions of the best papers presented at the Seventh IEEE International Workshop on Intelligent Data Acquisition and Advanced Computing Systems: Technology and Applications IDAACS 2013 that were related to these topics. Its contents integrate state of the art computational intelligence based techniques for automatic robot control to novel distributed sensing and data integration methodologies that can be applied to intelligent robotics and automation systems. The objective of the text was to provide an overview of some of the problems in the field of robotic systems and intelligent automation and the approaches and techniques that relevant research groups within this area are employing to try to solve them.The contributions of the different authors have been grouped into four main sections:• Robots• Control and Intelligence• Sensing• Collaborative automationThe chapters have been structured to provide an easy to follow introduction to the topics that are addressed, including the most relevant references, so that anyone interested in this field can get started in the area.

Prototyping of Robotic Systems: Applications of Design and Implementation
Prototyping of Robotic Systems: Applications of Design and Implementation

Author: Sobh, Tarek

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2012-02-29

Total Pages: 521

ISBN-13: 1466601779

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As a segment of the broader science of automation, robotics has achieved tremendous progress in recent decades due to the advances in supporting technologies such as computers, control systems, cameras and electronic vision, as well as micro and nanotechnology. Prototyping a design helps in determining system parameters, ranges, and in structuring an overall better system. Robotics is one of the industrial design fields in which prototyping is crucial for improved functionality. Prototyping of Robotic Systems: Applications of Design and Implementation provides a framework for conceptual, theoretical, and applied research in robotic prototyping and its applications. Covering the prototyping of various robotic systems including the complicated industrial robots, the tiny and delicate nanorobots, medical robots for disease diagnosis and treatment, as well as the simple robots for educational purposes, this book is a useful tool for those in the field of robotics prototyping and as a general reference tool for those in related fields.

Socio-Technical Futures Shaping the Present
Socio-Technical Futures Shaping the Present

Author: Andreas Lösch

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2019-11-11

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 3658271558

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​The exploration of ways to conceptualize the shaping of the present by socio‐technical futures is the aim of this volume. Therefore it brings together contributions from Science and Technology Studies and Technology Assessment, which focus all on the question how socio-technical images of the future shape present processes of innovation and transformation starting from empirical case studies and generalizing specific findings or by tackling conceptual questions from the outset. A white paper of 23 authors, which aims to sensitize researchers and practitioners completes the volume.

Living in a networked world
Living in a networked world

Author: Eva Geisberger

Publisher: Herbert Utz Verlag

Published: 2015-04-14

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 3831644497

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The rapid progress of information technology allows for increasingly powerful software intensive embedded systems (machines) executing integrated applications connected by and to global networks. Thus these systems are more and more networked among each other, but also with data and services on the Internet. Intelligent solutions originate which gather processes of the living environment by means of sensors and actuators, connect them to virtual software worlds and interpret, monitor and control these processes in interaction with people. In this way, so-called Cyber-Physical Systems evolve – a living in a networked world. The interlocking applications include smart cities, social infrastructures with integrated telemedicine care, enhanced connected mobility with fully or semi-autonomous driving cars and traffic systems, safety, security and privacy as well as networked production and the sustainable energy turnaround. The integrated research agenda Cyber-Physical-Systems (agendaCPS) provides a comprehensive overview of the capabilities and benefits of the arising CPS-applications and manifold technological and social challenges involved. The agenda illustrates which value the subject for economy and society has: revolutionary applications of Cyber-Physical Systems address technological and social trends and needs; at the same time they penetrate and interconnect more and more areas of life. On the basis of concrete future scenarios essential application domains are shown. Their analysis reveals which capabilities and technologies form the basis of Cyber-Physical systems and which innovation and possible conflict potential is inherent. The agendaCPS makes clear which researchand action areas are from particular importance. In these contexts opportunities, but also risks become apparent for Germany by Cyber-Physical Systems. This ist the English translation of the report agenda Cyber-Physical Systems finished three years ago as a German acatech project by a German publication.

Control Theory and Its Applications
Control Theory and Its Applications

Author: Vito G. Massari

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13:

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Control theory is a theory that deals with influencing the behaviour of dynamical systems and an interdisciplinary sub-field of science, which originated in engineering and mathematics, and evolved into use by the social sciences, such as psychology, sociology and criminology. In this book, the authors present and discuss topical data on control theory relating to these fields.

Smart Education and e-Learning 2019
Smart Education and e-Learning 2019

Author: Vladimir L. Uskov

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-05-31

Total Pages: 625

ISBN-13: 9811382603

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This book contains the contributions presented at the 6th international KES conference on Smart Education and e-Learning (KES SEEL-2019), which took place at St. Julian’s, Malta, June 17–19, 2019. It contains fifty-five high-quality peer-reviewed papers that are grouped into several interconnected parts: Part 1 – Smart Education, Part 2 – Smart e-Learning, Part 3 – Smart Pedagogy, Part 4 – Smart Education: Systems and Technology, Part 5 – Smart Education: Case Studies and Research, Part 6 – Students with Disabilities and Smart Education/University, and Part 7 – Mathematical Modelling of Smart Education and Economics of Smart University. Smart education and smart e-learning are emerging and rapidly growing areas with the potential to transform existing teaching strategies, learning environments, and educational activities and technology in the classroom. Smart education and smart e-learning focus on enabling instructors to develop new ways of achieving excellence in teaching in highly technological smart classrooms, and providing students with new opportunities to maximize their success and select the best options for their education, location and learning style, as well as the mode of content delivery. This book serves as a useful source of research data and valuable information on current research projects, best practices and case studies for faculty, scholars, Ph.D. students, administrators, and practitioners – all those who are interested in smart education and smart e-learning.

Transportation Cyber-Physical Systems
Transportation Cyber-Physical Systems

Author: Lipika Deka

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2018-07-30

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 0128142960

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Transportation Cyber-Physical Systems provides current and future researchers, developers and practitioners with the latest thinking on the emerging interdisciplinary field of Transportation Cyber Physical Systems (TCPS). The book focuses on enhancing efficiency, reducing environmental stress, and meeting societal demands across the continually growing air, water and land transportation needs of both people and goods. Users will find a valuable resource that helps accelerate the research and development of transportation and mobility CPS-driven innovation for the security, reliability and stability of society at-large. The book integrates ideas from Transport and CPS experts and visionaries, consolidating the latest thinking on the topic. As cars, traffic lights and the built environment are becoming connected and augmented with embedded intelligence, it is important to understand how smart ecosystems that encompass hardware, software, and physical components can help sense the changing state of the real world. - Bridges the gap between the transportation, CPS and civil engineering communities - Includes numerous examples of practical applications that show how diverse technologies and topics are integrated in practice - Examines timely, state-of-the-art topics, such as big data analytics, privacy, cybersecurity and smart cities - Shows how TCPS can be developed and deployed, along with its associated challenges - Includes pedagogical aids, such as Illustrations of application scenarios, architecture details, tables describing available methods and tools, chapter objectives, and a glossary - Contains international contributions from academia, government and industry

Introduction to Embedded Systems, Second Edition
Introduction to Embedded Systems, Second Edition

Author: Edward Ashford Lee

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2017-01-06

Total Pages: 562

ISBN-13: 0262340526

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An introduction to the engineering principles of embedded systems, with a focus on modeling, design, and analysis of cyber-physical systems. The most visible use of computers and software is processing information for human consumption. The vast majority of computers in use, however, are much less visible. They run the engine, brakes, seatbelts, airbag, and audio system in your car. They digitally encode your voice and construct a radio signal to send it from your cell phone to a base station. They command robots on a factory floor, power generation in a power plant, processes in a chemical plant, and traffic lights in a city. These less visible computers are called embedded systems, and the software they run is called embedded software. The principal challenges in designing and analyzing embedded systems stem from their interaction with physical processes. This book takes a cyber-physical approach to embedded systems, introducing the engineering concepts underlying embedded systems as a technology and as a subject of study. The focus is on modeling, design, and analysis of cyber-physical systems, which integrate computation, networking, and physical processes. The second edition offers two new chapters, several new exercises, and other improvements. The book can be used as a textbook at the advanced undergraduate or introductory graduate level and as a professional reference for practicing engineers and computer scientists. Readers should have some familiarity with machine structures, computer programming, basic discrete mathematics and algorithms, and signals and systems.

Mobile Agents
Mobile Agents

Author: Peter Braun

Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 1558608176

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Af indhold: Part 1, Motivation for and Introduction to Mobile Agents. Part 2, Mobile Agents - Concepts, Functions, and possible Problems. Part 3, The Kalong Mobility Model - Specification and Implementation. Part 4, The Tracy Mobile Agent Toolkit