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Mechanism Design for Robotics - MEDER 2021 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Said Zeghloul, Med Amine Laribi, Marc Arsicault Mechanism Design for Robotics - MEDER 2021 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Said Zeghloul, Med Amine Laribi, Marc Arsicault
R6,913 Discovery Miles 69 130 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book presents the proceedings of the 5th IFToMM Symposium on Mechanism Design for Robotics, MEDER 2021, held in Poitiers, France, 23-25 June 2021. It gathers contributions by researchers from several countries on all major areas of robotic research, development and innovation, as well as new applications and current trends. The topics covered include: theoretical and computational kinematics, mechanism design, experimental mechanics, mechanics of robots, control issues of mechanical systems, machine intelligence, innovative mechanisms and applications, linkages and manipulators, micro-mechanisms, dynamics of machinery and multi-body systems. Given its scope, the book offers a source of information and inspiration for researchers seeking to improve their work and gather new ideas for future developments.

Knowledge Management and Industry 4.0 - New Paradigms for Value Creation (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Marco Bettiol, Eleonora Di... Knowledge Management and Industry 4.0 - New Paradigms for Value Creation (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Marco Bettiol, Eleonora Di Maria, Stefano Micelli
R4,237 Discovery Miles 42 370 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The book discusses the opportunities and challenges of managing knowledge in the new reality of Industry 4.0. Addressing paradigmatic changes in value creation due to the development of digital technologies applied to manufacturing (additive manufacturing, IoT, robotics, etc.), it includes theoretical and empirical contributions on how Industry 4.0 technologies allow firms to create and exploit knowledge. The carefully selected expert contributions highlight the potential of these technologies in acquiring knowledge from a larger number of sources and examine approaches to innovation, organization of activities, and stakeholder development in the context of this next industrial revolution.

Multi-model Jumping Systems: Robust Filtering and Fault Detection (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Shuping He, Xiaoli Luan Multi-model Jumping Systems: Robust Filtering and Fault Detection (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Shuping He, Xiaoli Luan
R2,791 Discovery Miles 27 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book focuses on multi-model systems, describing how to apply intelligent technologies to model complex multi-model systems by combining stochastic jumping system, neural network and fuzzy models. It focuses on robust filtering, including finite-time robust filtering, finite-frequency robust filtering and higher order moment robust filtering schemes, as well as fault detection problems for multi-model jump systems, such as observer-based robust fault detection, filtering-based robust fault detection and neural network-based robust fault detection methods. The book also demonstrates the validity and practicability of the theoretical results using simulation and practical examples, like circuit systems, robot systems and power systems. Further, it introduces readers to methods such as finite-time filtering, finite-frequency robust filtering, as well as higher order moment and neural network-based fault detection methods for multi-model jumping systems, allowing them to grasp the modeling, analysis and design of the multi-model systems presented and implement filtering and fault detection analysis for various systems, including circuit, network and mechanical systems.

Smart Electromechanical Systems - Behavioral Decision Making (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Andrey E. Gorodetskiy, Irina L. Tarasova Smart Electromechanical Systems - Behavioral Decision Making (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Andrey E. Gorodetskiy, Irina L. Tarasova
R4,486 Discovery Miles 44 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book presents the latest achievements of Russian scientists in the field of theory and practice of decision-making in SEMS, taking into account the information received from the sensors of its central nervous system (CNS). Recently, in the field of theory and practice of intelligent robotics systems management, the solution to the problem of SEMS type urgent task of making decisions about their expedient behavior is based on the integration of the processes of obtaining, processing and storing information, computing, control and monitoring. This enables the efficiency, reliability and safety of operation of SEMS in real time. Decision-making methods are described, both in the autonomous behavior of SEMS and in their group interaction, based on the principles of bionics, adaptability, intelligence and parallelism in information processing and computation. This book is intended for students, scientists and engineers specializing in the field of smart electromechanical systems and robotics.

Robotic Navigation and Mapping with Radar (Hardcover, Unabridged edition): Martin Adams, Ebi Jose, Ba-Ngu Vo Robotic Navigation and Mapping with Radar (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
Martin Adams, Ebi Jose, Ba-Ngu Vo
R4,756 Discovery Miles 47 560 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Focusing on autonomous robotic applications, this cutting-edge resource offers a practical treatment of short-range radar processing for reliable object detection at the ground level. This unique book demonstrates probabilistic radar models and detection algorithms specifically for robotic land vehicles. Engineers and researchers may find detailed coverage of Simultaneous Localization and Map Building (SLAM) - an area referred to as the "Holy Grail" of autonomous robotics research.

Proceedings of UASG 2019 - Unmanned Aerial System in Geomatics (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Kamal Jain, Kourosh Khoshelham, Xuan... Proceedings of UASG 2019 - Unmanned Aerial System in Geomatics (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Kamal Jain, Kourosh Khoshelham, Xuan Zhu, Anuj Tiwari
R5,498 Discovery Miles 54 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of geographic information systems and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technologies, as presented by leading researchers and engineers at the 1st International Conference on Unmanned Aerial System in Geomatics (UASG), held in Roorkee, India on April 6-7, 2019. It covers highly diverse topics, including photogrammetry and remote sensing, surveying, UAV manufacturing, geospatial data sensing, UAV processing, visualization, and management, UAV applications and regulations, geo-informatics and geomatics. The contributions, which were selected by means of a rigorous international peer-review process, highlight numerous exciting ideas that will spur novel research directions and foster multidisciplinary collaboration among different specialists.

Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics XII - Proceedings of the Twelfth Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics... Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics XII - Proceedings of the Twelfth Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Ken Goldberg, Pieter Abbeel, Kostas Bekris, Lauren Miller
R3,009 Discovery Miles 30 090 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book presents the outcomes of the 12th International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR 2016). WAFR is a prestigious, single-track, biennial international meeting devoted to recent advances in algorithmic problems in robotics. Robot algorithms are an important building block of robotic systems and are used to process inputs from users and sensors, perceive and build models of the environment, plan low-level motions and high-level tasks, control robotic actuators, and coordinate actions across multiple systems. However, developing and analyzing these algorithms raises complex challenges, both theoretical and practical. Advances in the algorithmic foundations of robotics have applications to manufacturing, medicine, distributed robotics, human-robot interaction, intelligent prosthetics, computer animation, computational biology, and many other areas. The 2016 edition of WAFR went back to its roots and was held in San Francisco, California - the city where the very first WAFR was held in 1994. Organized by Pieter Abbeel, Kostas Bekris, Ken Goldberg, and Lauren Miller, WAFR 2016 featured keynote talks by John Canny on "A Guided Tour of Computer Vision, Robotics, Algebra, and HCI," Erik Demaine on "Replicators, Transformers, and Robot Swarms: Science Fiction through Geometric Algorithms," Dan Halperin on "From Piano Movers to Piano Printers: Computing and Using Minkowski Sums," and by Lydia Kavraki on "20 Years of Sampling Robot Motion." Furthermore, it included an Open Problems Session organized by Ron Alterovitz, Florian Pokorny, and Jur van den Berg. There were 58 paper presentations during the three-day event. The organizers would like to thank the authors for their work and contributions, the reviewers for ensuring the high quality of the meeting, the WAFR Steering Committee led by Nancy Amato as well as WAFR's fiscal sponsor, the International Federation of Robotics Research (IFRR), led by Oussama Khatib and Henrik Christensen. WAFR 2016 was an enjoyable and memorable event.

Logic Synthesis for FPGA-Based Control Units - Structural Decomposition in Logic Design (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Alexander... Logic Synthesis for FPGA-Based Control Units - Structural Decomposition in Logic Design (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Alexander Barkalov, Larysa Titarenko, Kamil Mielcarek, Slawomir Chmielewski
R2,810 Discovery Miles 28 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book focuses on control units, which are a vital part of modern digital systems, and responsible for the efficiency of controlled systems. The model of a finite state machine (FSM) is often used to represent the behavior of a control unit. As a rule, control units have irregular structures that make it impossible to design their logic circuits using the standard library cells. Design methods depend strongly on such factors as the FSM used, specific features of the logic elements implemented in the FSM logic circuit, and the characteristics of the control algorithm to be interpreted. This book discusses Moore and Mealy FSMs implemented with FPGA chips, including look-up table elements (LUT) and embedded memory blocks (EMB). It is crucial to minimize the number of LUTs and EMBs in an FSM logic circuit, as well as to make the interconnections between the logic elements more regular, and various methods of structural decompositions can be used to solve this problem. These methods are reduced to the presentation of an FSM circuit as a composition of different logic blocks, the majority of which implement systems of intermediate logic functions different (and much simpler) than input memory functions and FSM output functions. The structural decomposition results in multilevel FSM circuits having fewer logic elements than equivalent single-level circuits. The book describes well-known methods of structural decomposition and proposes new ones, examining their impact on the final amount of hardware in an FSM circuit. It is of interest to students and postgraduates in the area of Computer Science, as well as experts involved in designing digital systems with complex control units. The proposed models and design methods open new possibilities for creating logic circuits of control units with an optimal amount of hardware and regular interconnections.

Principles and Applications of Pid Controllers (Hardcover): Ashley Potter Principles and Applications of Pid Controllers (Hardcover)
Ashley Potter
R2,342 Discovery Miles 23 420 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Huimin Lu Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Huimin Lu
R4,266 Discovery Miles 42 660 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book provides insights into research in the field of artificial intelligence in combination with robotics technologies. The integration of artificial intelligence and robotic technologies is a highly topical area for researchers and developers from academia and industry around the globe, and it is likely that artificial intelligence will become the main approach for the next generation of robotics research. The tremendous number of artificial intelligence algorithms and big data solutions has significantly extended the range of potential applications for robotic technologies, and has also brought new challenges for the artificial intelligence community. Sharing recent advances in the field, the book features papers by young researchers presented at the 4th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics 2019 (ISAIR2019), held in Daegu, Korea, on August 20-24, 2019.

Emotion Recognition and Understanding for Emotional Human-Robot Interaction Systems (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Luefeng Chen,... Emotion Recognition and Understanding for Emotional Human-Robot Interaction Systems (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Luefeng Chen, Min Wu, Witold Pedrycz, Kaoru Hirota
R4,586 Discovery Miles 45 860 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book focuses on the key technologies and scientific problems involved in emotional robot systems, such as multimodal emotion recognition (i.e., facial expression/speech/gesture and their multimodal emotion recognition) and emotion intention understanding, and presents the design and application examples of emotional HRI systems. Aiming at the development needs of emotional robots and emotional human-robot interaction (HRI) systems, this book introduces basic concepts, system architecture, and system functions of affective computing and emotional robot systems. With the professionalism of this book, it serves as a useful reference for engineers in affective computing, and graduate students interested in emotion recognition and intention understanding. This book offers the latest approaches to this active research area. It provides readers with the state-of-the-art methods of multimodal emotion recognition, intention understanding, and application examples of emotional HRI systems.

ROMANSY 23 - Robot Design, Dynamics and Control - Proceedings of the 23rd CISM IFToMM Symposium (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021):... ROMANSY 23 - Robot Design, Dynamics and Control - Proceedings of the 23rd CISM IFToMM Symposium (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Gentiane Venture, Jorge Solis, Yukio Takeda, Atsushi Konno
R6,983 Discovery Miles 69 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book highlights the latest innovations and applications in robotics, as presented by leading international researchers and engineers at the ROMANSY 2020, the 23rd CISM IFToMM Symposium on Theory and Practice of Robots and Manipulators. The ROMANSY symposium is the first established conference that focuses on robotics theory and research, rather than industrial aspects. Bringing together researchers from a broad range of countries, the symposium is held bi-annually and plays a vital role in the development of the theory and practice of robotics, as well as the mechanical sciences. ROMANSY 2020 marks the 23rd installment in a series that began in 1973. The event was also the first topic-specific conference of the IFToMM, though not exclusively intended for the IFToMM community.

Tuning and Control Loop Performance (Paperback, 4th edition): Gregory McMillan Tuning and Control Loop Performance (Paperback, 4th edition)
Gregory McMillan
R2,632 R2,053 Discovery Miles 20 530 Save R579 (22%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Control Loops are the feedback mechanisms that work between a sensor or site control and a set of system or component settings-such as temperature or pressure. Understanding the various dynamics that come in to play when trying to control any active system can be complex and difficult, but this book seeks to make that effort much easier and more applicable to the day-to-day job site. The new edition will have greater coverage of on new software-driven control loop systems and control loop analytics. Readers will find: Review of control loop fundamentals, including PID controllers, loop dynamics and common tuning methods Coverage of the effects of various kinds of dynamics, including process, controller, measurement, valve and nonlinear dynamics New chapters on computer-aided control loop tuning methods and smart systems Summaries with useful control loop equations and algorithms

Transactions on Intelligent Welding Manufacturing - Volume III No. 1  2019 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Shan-Ben Chen, YuMing... Transactions on Intelligent Welding Manufacturing - Volume III No. 1 2019 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Shan-Ben Chen, YuMing Zhang, Zhili Feng
R4,228 Discovery Miles 42 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The primary aim of this volume is to provide researchers and engineers from both academic and industry with up-to-date coverage of new results in the field of robotic welding, intelligent systems and automation. The book is mainly based on papers selected from the 2019 International Workshop on Intelligentized Welding Manufacturing (IWIWM'2019) in USA. The articles show that the intelligentized welding manufacturing (IWM) is becoming an inevitable trend with the intelligentized robotic welding as the key technology. The volume is divided into four logical parts: Intelligent Techniques for Robotic Welding, Sensing of Arc Welding Processing, Modeling and Intelligent Control of Welding Processing, as well as Intelligent Control and its Applications in Engineering.

Proceedings of 15th International Conference on Electromechanics and Robotics "Zavalishin's Readings" - ER(ZR) 2020, Ufa,... Proceedings of 15th International Conference on Electromechanics and Robotics "Zavalishin's Readings" - ER(ZR) 2020, Ufa, Russia, 15-18 April 2020 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Andrey Ronzhin, Vladislav Shishlakov
R5,541 Discovery Miles 55 410 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book features selected papers presented at the 15th International Conference on Electromechanics and Robotics "Zavalishin's Readings" - ER(ZR) 2020, held in Ufa, Russia, on 15-18 April 2020. The contributions, written by professionals, researchers and students, cover topics in the field of automatic control systems, electromechanics, electric power engineering and electrical engineering, mechatronics, robotics, automation and vibration technologies. The Zavalishin's Readings conference was established as a tribute to the memory of Dmitry Aleksandrovich Zavalishin (1900-1968) - a Russian scientist, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences and founder of the school of valve energy converters based on electric machines and valve converters energy. The first conference was organized by the Institute of Innovative Technologies in Electromechanics and Robotics at the Saint Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation in 2006.

Privacy in Dynamical Systems (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Farhad Farokhi Privacy in Dynamical Systems (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Farhad Farokhi
R2,822 Discovery Miles 28 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book addresses privacy in dynamical systems, with applications to smart metering, traffic estimation, and building management. In the first part, the book explores statistical methods for privacy preservation from the areas of differential privacy and information-theoretic privacy (e.g., using privacy metrics motivated by mutual information, relative entropy, and Fisher information) with provable guarantees. In the second part, it investigates the use of homomorphic encryption for the implementation of control laws over encrypted numbers to support the development of fully secure remote estimation and control. Chiefly intended for graduate students and researchers, the book provides an essential overview of the latest developments in privacy-aware design for dynamical systems.

SLAM Techniques Application for Mobile Robot in Rough Terrain (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Andrii Kudriashov, Tomasz Buratowski,... SLAM Techniques Application for Mobile Robot in Rough Terrain (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Andrii Kudriashov, Tomasz Buratowski, Mariusz Giergiel, Piotr Malka
R3,937 Discovery Miles 39 370 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book presents the development of SLAM-based mobile robot control systems as an integrated approach that combines the localization, mapping and motion control fields, and reviews several techniques that represent the basics of the mathematical description of wheeled robots, their navigation and path planning approaches, localization and map creating techniques. It examines SLAM paradigms and Bayesian recursive state and map estimation techniques, which include Kalman and particle filtering, and enable the development of a SLAM-based integrated system for the inspection task performed. The system's development is divided into two phases: a single-robot approach and multirobot inspection system. The book describes an original approach to 2D SLAM in multi-floor buildings that covers each 2D level map, as well as continuous 3D pose tracking, and views the multirobot inspection system as a group of homogeneous mobile robots. The last part of the book is dedicated to multirobot map creation and the development of path planning solutions, which allow the robots' homogeneous behavior and configuration to be used to develop a multirobot system without theoretical limitations on the number of robots used.

Advanced Technologies in Robotics and Intelligent Systems - Proceedings of ITR 2019 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Sergey Yu.... Advanced Technologies in Robotics and Intelligent Systems - Proceedings of ITR 2019 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Sergey Yu. Misyurin, Vigen Arakelian, Arutyun I. Avetisyan
R5,502 Discovery Miles 55 020 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of intelligent systems such as robots, cyber-physical and embedded systems, as presented by leading international researchers and engineers at the International Conference on Intelligent Technologies in Robotics (ITR), held in Moscow, Russia on October 21-23, 2019. It covers highly diverse topics, including robotics, design and machining, control and dynamics, bio-inspired systems, Internet of Thing, Big Data, RFID technology, blockchain, trusted software, cyber-physical systems (CFS) security, development of CFS in manufacturing, protection of information in CFS, cybersecurity of CFS. The contributions, which were selected by means of a rigorous international peer-review process, highlight numerous exciting ideas that will spur novel research directions and foster multidisciplinary collaboration among different specialists, demonstrating that intelligent systems will drive the technological and societal change in the coming decades.

Nonlinear Control, Global Edition (Paperback): Hassan Khalil Nonlinear Control, Global Edition (Paperback)
Hassan Khalil
R2,384 Discovery Miles 23 840 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

For a first course on nonlinear control that can be taught in one semester This book emerges from the award-winning book, Nonlinear Systems, but has a distinctly different mission and organization. While Nonlinear Systems was intended as a reference and a text on nonlinear system analysis and its application to control, this streamlined book is intended as a text for a first course on nonlinear control. In Nonlinear Control, author Hassan K. Khalil employs a writing style that is intended to make the book accessible to a wider audience without compromising the rigor of the presentation. Teaching and Learning Experience This program will provide a better teaching and learning experience-for you and your students. It will help: *Provide an Accessible Approach to Nonlinear Control: This streamlined book is intended as a text for a first course on nonlinear control that can be taught in one semester. *Support Learning: Over 250 end-of-chapter exercises give students plenty of opportunities to put theory into action.

Theory of Oscillations - Structural Mathematical Modeling in Problems of Dynamics of Technical Objects (Hardcover, 1st ed.... Theory of Oscillations - Structural Mathematical Modeling in Problems of Dynamics of Technical Objects (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Sergey Viktorovich Eliseev, Andrey Vladimirovich Eliseev
R4,297 Discovery Miles 42 970 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book develops and substantiates methods for structural mathematical modeling in the context of protecting machines and equipment from vibration effects. It analyzes problems concerning the dynamic interactions of elements in mechanical oscillatory systems, constructing suitable mathematical models, estimating their dynamic properties, and adapting structural mathematical models to the equivalent forms. In turn, it develops a methodological basis for identifying the lever linkages and taking into account the peculiarities of their influence on the dynamic properties of systems. Given its scope, the book offers a valuable resource for specialists in the fields of dynamics and strength of machines, vibration protection systems for equipment, and maintenance of the dynamic quality of vibrating machines, as well as students in related degree programs.

Understanding Pulsars and Space Navigations (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Ping Shuai Understanding Pulsars and Space Navigations (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Ping Shuai
R5,246 Discovery Miles 52 460 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book systematically presents the concept, history, implementation, theory system and basic methods of pulsar and space flight, illustrating the characteristics of pulsars. It also describes the classification of spacecraft navigation systems and the autonomous navigation technologies, as well as X-ray pulsar-based navigation systems (XPNAV) and discusses future navigation satellite systems in detail.

Gyro-Free Inertial Navigation Technology (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Hongjin Zhou, Yunhai Zhong, Hui Song, Su Wang Gyro-Free Inertial Navigation Technology (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Hongjin Zhou, Yunhai Zhong, Hui Song, Su Wang
R4,897 Discovery Miles 48 970 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book focuses on gyro-free inertial navigation technology, which is used to measure not only linear motion parameters but also angular rates. Since no gyroscopes are used, the key technologies, such as initial alignment, attitude resolution, and error calibration, are very different than those used in traditional methods. Discussing each key technology in gyro-free inertial navigation system (GFINS) manufacture in a separate chapter, the book features easy-to-understand, detailed illustrations, to allow all those involved in inertial navigation to gain a better grasp of GFINS manufacture, including accelerometer setting principles; initial alignment; quaternion-based, attitude resolution algorithms; and accelerometer de-noise methods.

Advances in Neural Computation, Machine Learning, and Cognitive Research IV - Selected Papers from the XXII International... Advances in Neural Computation, Machine Learning, and Cognitive Research IV - Selected Papers from the XXII International Conference on Neuroinformatics, October 12-16, 2020, Moscow, Russia (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Boris Kryzhanovsky, Witali Dunin-Barkowski, Vladimir Redko, Yury Tiumentsev
R5,506 Discovery Miles 55 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book describes new theories and applications of artificial neural networks, with a special focus on answering questions in neuroscience, biology and biophysics and cognitive research. It covers a wide range of methods and technologies, including deep neural networks, large scale neural models, brain computer interface, signal processing methods, as well as models of perception, studies on emotion recognition, self-organization and many more. The book includes both selected and invited papers presented at the XXII International Conference on Neuroinformatics, held on October 12-16, 2020, Moscow, Russia.

Active Lighting and Its Application for Computer Vision - 40 Years of History of Active Lighting Techniques (Hardcover, 1st ed.... Active Lighting and Its Application for Computer Vision - 40 Years of History of Active Lighting Techniques (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Katsushi Ikeuchi, Yasuyuki Matsushita, Ryusuke Sagawa, Hiroshi Kawasaki, Yasuhiro Mukaigawa, …
R4,592 Discovery Miles 45 920 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book describes active illumination techniques in computer vision. We can classify computer vision techniques into two classes: passive and active techniques. Passive techniques observe the scene statically and analyse it as is. Active techniques give the scene some actions and try to facilitate the analysis. In particular, active illumination techniques project specific light, for which the characteristics are known beforehand, to a target scene to enable stable and accurate analysis of the scene. Traditional passive techniques have a fundamental limitation. The external world surrounding us is three-dimensional; the image projected on a retina or an imaging device is two-dimensional. That is, reduction of one dimension has occurred. Active illumination techniques compensate for the dimensional reduction by actively controlling the illumination. The demand for reliable vision sensors is rapidly increasing in many application areas, such as robotics and medical image analysis. This book explains this new endeavour to explore the augmentation of reduced dimensions in computer vision. This book consists of three parts: basic concepts, techniques, and applications. The first part explains the basic concepts for understanding active illumination techniques. In particular, the basic concepts of optics are explained so that researchers and engineers outside the field can understand the later chapters. The second part explains currently available active illumination techniques, covering many techniques developed by the authors. The final part shows how such active illumination techniques can be applied to various domains, describing the issue to be overcome by active illumination techniques and the advantages of using these techniques. This book is primarily aimed at 4th year undergraduate and 1st year graduate students, and will also help engineers from fields beyond computer vision to use active illumination techniques. Additionally, the book is suitable as course material for technical seminars.

New Advances in Mechanisms, Mechanical Transmissions and Robotics - MTM & Robotics 2020 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021): Erwin... New Advances in Mechanisms, Mechanical Transmissions and Robotics - MTM & Robotics 2020 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Erwin Christian Lovasz, Inocentiu Maniu, Ioan Doroftei, Mircea Ivanescu, Corina-Mihaela Gruescu
R5,541 Discovery Miles 55 410 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume gathers the proceedings of the Joint International Conference of the XIII International Conference on Mechanisms and Mechanical Transmissions (MTM) and the XXIV International Conference on Robotics (Robotics), held in Timisoara, Romania. It addresses the applications of mechanisms and transmissions in several modern technical fields such as mechatronics, biomechanics, machines, micromachines, robotics and apparatus. In doing so, it combines theoretical findings and experimental testing. The book presents peer-reviewed papers written by researchers specialized in mechanism analysis and synthesis, dynamics of mechanisms and machines, mechanical transmissions, biomechanics, precision mechanics, mechatronics, micromechanisms and microactuators, computational and experimental methods, CAD in mechanism and machine design, mechanical design of robot architecture, parallel robots, mobile robots, micro and nano robots, sensors and actuators in robotics, intelligent control systems, biomedical engineering, teleoperation, haptics, and virtual reality.

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