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For the latest twenty to thirty years, a significant number of AUVs has been created for the solving of wide spectrum of scientific and applied tasks of ocean development and research. For the short time period the AUVs have shown the efficiency at performance of complex search and inspection works and opened a number of new important applications. Initially the information about AUVs had mainly review-advertising character but now more attention is paid to practical achievements, problems and systems technologies. AUVs are losing their prototype status and have become a fully operational, reliable and effective tool and modern multi-purpose AUVs represent the new class of underwater robotic objects with inherent tasks and practical applications, particular features of technology, systems structure and functional properties.

Since the advent of steam engines and higher throughput railways during the early nineteenth century, the rate of development has been rather steady and incremental. The development of advanced electronic control and command systems, increasing levels of automation, and electrified high-speed railways over the past few decades have transformed the rail transportation posing it as a competitor to aviation. Modern railways are no longer the sole forte of civil and mechanical engineering and involve a broad multidisciplinary engineering disciplines from advanced computing, telecommunications, and networking to big data analytics and even AI. This volume addresses the diverse, evolving, and advanced engineering disciplines including enabling practices and processes involved in shaping modern railways.

Autonomous vehicles, despite their relatively short history, have already found practical application in many areas of human activity. Such vehicles are usually replacing people in performing tasks that require long operating time and are held in inaccessible or hazardous environments. Nevertheless, autonomous robotics is probably the area that is being developed the most because of the great demand for such devices in different areas of our lives. This book is a collection of experiences shared by scientists from different parts of the world doing researches and daily exploiting autonomous systems. Giving this book in the hands of the reader, we hope that it will be a treasure trove of knowledge and inspiration for further research in the field of autonomous vehicles.

Miriam Lawrence's evocative memoir describing the exciting voyage she made in 1848-50, aged 20, on a wooden three mast sailing ship, captained by her husband, to Australia, Hong Kong and other places in Asia. The book includes pictures of the ship and the places visited, maps, extracts from the captain's log and commentary.

Embarquez vers l'inconnu pour une grande aventure en vélo de la France au Vietnam sur plus de 16 000 kilomètres ! Thibault et Khanh Nguyen ont pris la décision la plus folle de leur vie : celle de passer leur lune de miel sur les routes du monde : de chez lui à chez elle. Khanh Nguyen n'avait jamais pédalé plus de quelques kilomètres avant ce voyage.... Partez avec eux à la conquête des montagnes suisses, échappez aux kalachnikovs au beau milieu du désert iranien, frayez-vous un chemin à travers les foules indiennes, survivez aux tigres népalais, réfugiez-vous dans les pagodes birmanes pour enfin retrouver les rizières vietnamiennes. Suivez ce couple singulier et leurs deux chapeaux coniques vietnamiens dans une aventure exceptionnelle tissée d'efforts, de dangers, de rencontres mémorables, de doutes et d'espoirs. Les moments forts et les digressions philosophiques ne manquent pas ! Sous le nom "Projet Non La" , Thibault et Khanh Nguyen ont traversé 18 pays : la France, la Suisse, l'Allemagne, l'Autriche, la République Tchèque, la Slovaquie, la Hongrie, la Serbie, la Bulgarie, la Géorgie, l'Azerbaïjan, l'Iran, l'Inde, le Népal, le Myanmar, la Thaïlande, le Laos et le Vietnam.

This title offers a dynamic understanding of tourism, usually defined in terms of clearly circumscribed places and temporalities, to grasp its changing spatial patterns. This edited volume will be of great interest to upper-level students, academics and researchers in tourism, urban studies, and land use planning.

When a wildfire destroyed her home and worldly possessions in the hills above Los Angeles, it didn't take Megan Edwards long to recognize an opportunity. It took her husband a little longer ("e;Give me five minutes to grieve!"e;), but they were both soon planning to make the most of their sudden "e;stufflessness"e; and hit the road. They did so a few months later in a freshly built four-wheel-drive motorhome that was even more unusual because of the office in the back instead of a bedroom. This all happened back when "e;Internet"e; had not yet entered the lexicon but "e;email"e; had. The mobile office would allow Edwards to file stories with the newspapers she wrote for by cell phone. That was the idea, at least. At the beginning of 1994, cell service was patchy, unreliable, and expensive.They also thought they'd be traveling for six months or so, when, they believed, they'd settle down and get back to normal. But five years and thousands of miles later, they were still on the road. In that time, they'd watched the Internet grow from a mysterious fad prized by people in remote locales into an unstoppable universal phenomenon. They started a website, RoadTripAmerica.com, to share road tripping tips and ideas. Slowly, their dream of being "e;at work, at home, and on the road, all at the same grand time"e; became a reality.This edition marks the twentieth anniversary of Edwards's memoir, which was first released in 1999. At its heart a story of making lemonade when life gives you lemons, this memoir is also a riveting and at times hilarious look at the early years of the World Wide Web. With a new introduction by the author and a foreword by Chris Epting, enjoy an armchair adventure across North America when the Internet was young. This edition also includes 22 photos dating from when the author lived on the road.

A Reporter's Recollections of the Glory Years of Speedway, spanning his life in provincial and national journalism.

What sort of person undertakes to rob a multi-ton train surging down a set of rails at high speed? For the Old West¿s most famous outlaws, including Jesse James, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the Dalton Gang, and Black Jack Ketchum, it was as much about the thrill of the crime as the riches to be won, thumbing their noses at the authorities, and getting away with their crimes more often than not. These men, and at least one woman, were dare devils, rule breakers, adventurers, and rebels. In addition to their train robberies, they led colorful, dramatic, and dangerous lives. The Old West's Infamous Train Robbers and their Historic Heists profiles sixteen noted train robbers (or train robbing gangs) along with the details of each their forty-seven hold-ups. The mechanics of each of their train robberies¿planning, execution, and escape¿are dissected and discussed. Pertinent background information relating to each outlaw/gang is included as well as what became of them following their train robbery days.

The link between culture and wine reaches back into the earliest history of humanity. The Routledge Handbook of Wine and Culture brings together a newly comprehensive, interdisciplinary overview of contemporary research and thinking on how wine fits into the cultural frameworks of production and consumption.

<p>The photos in this edition are black and white.<p>Get a complete look at Ford Big-Block parts interchange and availability from author George Reid, a Ford expert and historian.<p>Engine components covered in <i>Ford Big-Block Parts Interchange</i> include cranks, rods, pistons, camshafts, engine blocks, intake and exhaust manifolds, carburetors, distributors, and more. Expanding from the previous edition of <i>High-Performance Ford Parts Interchange</i> that covered both small- and big-block engines in one volume, this book cuts out the small-block information and devotes every page to the MEL, FE and 385 series big-blocks from Ford, which allows for more complete and extensive coverage.<p>Over the course of performance car history, and specifically muscle car history, big-block engines are particularly beloved, and for good reason. Not only are they the essence of what a muscle car is, but before modern technology and stroker engines, they were also the best way to make a lot of horsepower. All of the Detroit manufacturers had their versions of big-block engines, and Ford was no exception. Actually, Ford was somewhat unique in that it had two very different big-block engine designs during the muscle car era.<p>The FE engine was a design pioneered in the late 1950s, primarily as a more powerful replacement for the dated Y-block design because cars were becoming bigger and heavier, and therefore, necessitated more power to move. What started as torquey engines meant to move heavyweight sedans morphed into screaming high-performance mills that won Le Mans and drag racing championships through the 1960s. By the late 1960s, the design was dated, so Ford replaced the FE design with the "385" series, also known as the "Lima" design, which was more similar to the canted-valve Cleveland design being pioneered at the same time. It didn''t share the 1960s pedigree of racing success, but the new design was better in almost every way; it exists via Ford motorsports offerings to this day.

A fascinating history of Continental motorcycle racing, from the pre-war period through to the 1970s, this book details the British riders and privateers from around the world, who earned their living competing in races and events on the circuits of Europe - for the racers an exciting and nomadic existence, known as the 'Continental Circus.'