Bücher der Reihe Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering

This book provides an introduction to planning and decision making for aerial robots, including motion planning, deterministic decision making, decision making under uncertainty, and multi-robot planning. It includes case studies.

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the area of robot mechanisms, primarily considering industrial manipulators and humanoid arms.

Surveying advances in optimization and control methods with applications to industrial engineering and construction management, this book covers lean and agile construction project management, set splitting problems, distributed fault detection and more.

Nature-minding design selects the production methods and technologies that impact the environment the least. This book presents an overview of the fundamental principles, problems and issues of human and nature-minding automation and industrial systems.

The past decade has seen tremendous interest in the production and refinement of unmanned aerial vehicles, both fixed-wing, such as airplanes and rotary-wing, such as helicopters and vertical takeoff and landing vehicles.

Many complex aeronautical design problems can be formulated with efficient multi-objective evolutionary optimization methods and game strategies. This book describes the role of advanced innovative evolution tools in the solution, or the set of solutions of single or multi disciplinary optimization.

The essays in this book, written by researchers from both humanities and science, describe various theoretical and experimental approaches to adding medical ethics to a machine, what design features are necessary in order to achieve this, philosophical and practical questions concerning justice, rights, decision-making and responsibility in medical contexts, and accurately modeling essential physician-machine-patient relationships.In medical settings, machines are in close proximity with human beings: with patients who are in vulnerable states of health, who have disabilities of various kinds, with the very young or very old and with medical professionals. Machines in these contexts are undertaking important medical tasks that require emotional sensitivity, knowledge of medical codes, human dignity and privacy.As machine technology advances, ethical concerns become more urgent: should medical machines be programmed to follow a code of medical ethics? What theory or theories should constrain medical machine conduct? What design features are required? Should machines share responsibility with humans for the ethical consequences of medical actions? How ought clinical relationships involving machines to be modeled? Is a capacity for empathy and emotion detection necessary? What about consciousness?This collection is the first book that addresses these 21st-century concerns.

This graduate-level textbook is devoted to understanding, prediction and control of high-dimensional chaotic and attractor systems of real life. The objective is to provide the serious reader with a serious scientific tool that will enable the actual performance of competitive research in high-dimensional chaotic and attractor dynamics.

This book presents recent advances in robot control theory on task space sensory feedback control of robot manipulators.

Recent advances in LSI technology and the consequent availability of inexpensive but powerful microprocessors have already affected the process control industry in a significant manner.

This book addresses dynamic modelling methodology and analyses of tree-type robotic systems.

To this end, they endeavor to create a new era in sleep technology, one that will improve the quality of people's sleep and daily lives.This edited book, Introduction to Modern Sleep Technology, provides a comprehensive reference volume to the latest advancements in the area of Sleep Technology.

The book, in addition to the cyber threats and technology, processes cyber security from many sides as a social phenomenon and how the implementation of the cyber security strategy is carried out. The book gives a profound idea of the most spoken phenomenon of this time.

Surveying advances in optimization and control methods with applications to industrial engineering and construction management, this book covers lean and agile construction project management, set splitting problems, distributed fault detection and more.

Distributed model predictive control (MPC) is one of the promising control methodologies for control of such systems.This book provides a state-of-the-art overview of distributed MPC approaches, while at the same time making clear directions of research that deserve more attention.

This book is devoted to Multiobjective Optimization Design (MOOD) procedures for controller tuning applications, by means of Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization (EMO).

This book highlights the state-of-the-art with regard to inline pipe investigation and structural health monitoring of pipes. The book begins with applications of pipe inspection robots, and goes on to discuss. The book also introduces smart materials and smart sensors for use in pipe inspection robots.

This volume is the first to present a unified perspective on the control of underactuated mechanical systems. The book, aimed at control engineers as well as graduate students, ranges from the problem of parameter identification of the studied systems to the practical implementation of sophisticated motion control algorithms.

This book provides an overview of the research done and results obtained during the last ten years in the fields of fractional systems control, fractional PI and PID control, robust and CRONE control, and fractional path planning and path tracking.

Flight testing is the final phase, where design validation is performed. This book is the first of its kind, and it is suitable for students and researchers interested in the design and development of CCWs for small-scale aircraft.

This book provides the reader with a clear and precise description of robotics and other systems for home automation currently on the market, and discusses their interoperability and perspectives for the near future.

This book presents a mechatronic approach to Active Noise Control (ANC). Furthermore, it includes a design methodology for ANC-systems, explains its application and describes tools to be used for ANC-system design. Furthermore, a prototype of an ANC-system able to reach the physical limits of local (feed-forward) ANC is described.

and robots employed in elderly and other care applications* Mobile Robots: Self-driving vehicles, autonomous aircraft, trains, cars and drones* Robots used in medicine and for therapeutic purposes* Robots used in surveillance and military functions

This book provides an integrated framework for natural and artificial cognition by highlighting the fundamental role played by the cognitive architecture in the dialectics with the surrounding environment and consequently in the definition of a particular meaningful world.This book is also about embodied and non-embodied artificial systems, cognitive architectures that are human constructs, meant to be able to populate the human world, capable of identifying different life contexts and replicating human patterns of behavior capable of acting according to human values and conventions, systems that perform tasks in a human-like way. By identifying the essential phenomena at the core of all forms of cognition, the book addresses the topic of design of artificial cognitive architectures in the domains of robotics and artificial life. Moving from mere bio-inspired design methodology it aims to open a pathway to semiotically determined design.

Focusing on the essential concept of well-being, it addresses topics that are fundamental not only for research, but also for industry and end-users, discussing the challenges in a wide variety of applications, including domestic robots, autonomous manufacturing, personal care robots and drones.

On the other hand, quantum computing systems perform classical computations using quantum devices (quantum dots), that is devices that can be described only using quantum mechanics.