1) Power electronics dominated power systems 2) Controlling of Power electronics converters 3) Understanding the control and stability of power converters 4) To Increase the hosting capacity of renewable generations in modern power systems 5) To familiar with applications of emerging technologies in the power electronics dominated power systems.

Autonomous Positioning of Piezoactuated Mechanism for Biological Cell Puncture gives a systematic and almost selfcontained description of the many facets of advanced design, optimization, modeling, system identification and advanced control techniques for positioning of cell puncture mechanism with piezoelectric actuator in micro/nanorobotics systems. To achieve biomedical applications, reliability design, modeling, and precision control are vitally important for developing engineering systems. With the advances in mechanical design, dynamic modeling, system identification, and control techniques, exploiting them for the benefit of reliability design, precision control, and quick actuation of micro/nanomanipulation systems to expand the robot's applications at the micro and nanoscales, especially for biomedical applications. This book unifies existing and emerging techniques concerning advanced design, modeling and advanced control methodologies in micropuncture of biological cells using piezoelectric actuator with their practical biomedical applications. The book is an essential resource for researchers within robotics, mechatronics, biomedical engineering, and automatic control society, including both academic and industrial parts. KEY FEATURES * Provides a series of latest results in, including but not limited to, design, modeling, and control of micro/nanomanipulation systems utilizing piezoelectric actuator * Gives recent advances of theory, technological aspects, and applications of advanced modeling, control, and actuation methodologies in cell engineering applications * Presents simulation and experimental results to reflect the micro/nano manipulation practice, and also validate the performances of the developed design, analysis, and synthesis approaches

This highly successful book is now updated in line with the Amendment 2-2022 of 18th Edition of the Wiring Regulations. It provides a topic-by-topic progression through the areas of electrical installations, including how and why electrical installations are designed, installed and tested. This tenth edition contains new material on batteries, LED and ELV lighting, data cabling and renewable electricity generation and distribution, with some focus on medical locations, and a glossary of terms. The guidance on tools used and safety legislation has also been brought up to date. Brian Scaddan's subject-led approach makes this a valuable resource for professionals and students on both City & Guilds and EAL courses. This approach also makes it easy for those who are learning the topic from scratch to get to grips with it independently of any particular course. The book is widely used in education and training across the UK and has been published for almost 40 years.

Provides strong and accessible theoretical bases to swarm intelligence algorithms, from particle optimization to bioinspired and meta-heuristic algorithms Presents emerging meta-heuristic algorithms and applications Provides overviews on Python and R based computing libraries for swarm intelligence and meta-heuristic algorithms Presenting real-world applications, especially on Industry, Medicine and Biology.

The book "Analysis and Design of Control Systems using MATLAB", is designed as a supplement to an introductory course in feedback control systems for undergraduate or graduate engineering students of all disciplines. Feedback control systems engineering is a multidisciplinary subject and presents a control engineering methodology based on mathematical fundamentals and stresses physical system modeling.This book includes the coverage of classical methods of control systems engineering: introduction to control systems, matrix analysis, Laplace transforms, mathematical modeling of dynamic systems, control system representation, performance and stability of feedback systems, analysis and design of feedback control systems, state space analysis and design, and MATLAB basics and MATLAB tutorial. The numerous worked examples offer detailed explanations, and guide the students through each set of problems to enable them to save a great deal of time and effort in arriving at an understanding of problems in this subject. Extensive references to guide the students to further sources of information on control systems and MATLAB is provided. In addition to students, practising engineers will also find this book immensely useful.

Shipboard Propulsion, Power Electronics, and Ocean Energy fills the need for a comprehensive book that covers modern shipboard propulsion and the power electronics and ocean energy technologies that drive it. With a breadth and depth not found in other books, it examines the power electronics systems for ship propulsion and for extracting ocean energy, which are mirror images of each other. Comprised of sixteen chapters, the book is divided into four parts: Power Electronics and Motor Drives explains basic power electronics converters and variable-frequency drives, cooling methods, and quality of power Electric Propulsion Technologies focuses on the electric propulsion of ships using recently developed permanent magnet and superconducting motors, as well as hybrid propulsion using fuel cell, photovoltaic, and wind power Renewable Ocean Energy Technologies explores renewable ocean energy from waves, marine currents, and offshore wind farms System Integration Aspects discusses two aspects-energy storage and system reliability-that are essential for any large-scale power system This timely book evolved from the author's 30 years of work experience at General Electric, Lockheed Martin, and Westinghouse Electric and 15 years of teaching at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy. As a textbook, it is ideal for an elective course at marine and naval academies with engineering programs. It is also a valuable reference for commercial and military shipbuilders, port operators, renewable ocean energy developers, classification societies, machinery and equipment manufacturers, researchers, and others interested in modern shipboard power and propulsion systems. The information provided herein does not necessarily represent the view of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy or the U.S. Department of Transportation. This book is a companion to Shipboard Electrical Power Systems (CRC Press, 2011), by the same author.

Most of the real-life signals are non-stationary in nature. The examples of such signals include biomedical signals, communication signals, speech, earthquake signals, vibration signals, etc. Time-frequency analysis plays an important role for extracting the meaningful information from these signals. The book presents time-frequency analysis methods together with their various applications. The basic concepts of signals and different ways of representing signals have been provided. The various time-frequency analysis techniques namely, short-time Fourier transform, wavelet transform, quadratic time-frequency transforms, advanced wavelet transforms, and adaptive time-frequency transforms have been explained. The fundamentals related to these methods are included. The various examples have been included in the book to explain the presented concepts effectively. The recently developed time-frequency analysis techniques such as, Fourier-Bessel series expansion-based methods, synchrosqueezed wavelet transform, tunable-Q wavelet transform, iterative eigenvalue decomposition of Hankel matrix, variational mode decomposition, Fourier decomposition method, etc. have been explained in the book. The numerous applications of time-frequency analysis techniques in various research areas have been demonstrated. This book covers basic concepts of signals, time-frequency analysis, and various conventional and advanced time-frequency analysis methods along with their applications. The set of problems included in the book will be helpful to gain an expertise in time-frequency analysis. The material presented in this book will be useful for students, academicians, and researchers to understand the fundamentals and applications related to time-frequency analysis.

This text emphasizes the importance of artificial intelligence techniques in the field of biological computation. It also discusses fundamental principles that can be applied beyond bio-inspired computing. It comprehensively covers important topics including data integration, data mining, machine learning, genetic algorithms, evolutionary computation, evolved neural networks, nature-inspired algorithms, and protein structure alignment. The text covers the application of evolutionary computations for fractal visualization of sequence data, artificial intelligence, and automatic image interpretation in modern biological systems. The text is primarily written for graduate students and academic researchers in areas of electrical engineering, electronics engineering, computer engineering, and computational biology. This book: * Covers algorithms in the fields of artificial intelligence, and machine learning useful in biological data analysis. * Discusses comprehensively artificial intelligence and automatic image interpretation in modern biological systems. * Presents the application of evolutionary computations for fractal visualization of sequence data. * Explores the use of genetic algorithms for pair-wise and multiple sequence alignments. * Examines the roles of efficient computational techniques in biology.

The 3rd International Conference on Foundations and Frontiers in Computer, Communication and Electrical Engineering is a notable event which brings together academia, researchers, engineers and students in the fields of Electronics and Communication, Computer and Electrical Engineering making the conference a perfect platform to share experience, foster collaborations across industry and academia, and evaluate emerging technologies across the globe. The conference is technically co-sponsored by IEEE Kolkata Section along with several IEEE chapters, Kolkata Section such as Electron Devices Society, Power and Energy Society, Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society, Computer Society, and in association with CSIR-CEERI, Pilani, Rajasthan. The scope of the conference covers some broad areas of interest (but not limited to) such as Satellite and Mobile Communication Systems, Radar, Antennas, High Power Microwave Systems (HPMS), Electronic Warfare, Information Warfare, UWB systems, Microwave and Optical Communications, Microwave and Millimetre-Wave Tubes, Photonics, Plasma Devices, Missile Tracking and Guided systems, High voltage engineering, Electrical Machines, Power Systems, Control Systems, Non-Conventional Energy, Power Electronics and Drives, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, Networking, Image Processing, Soft Computing, Cloud Computing, Data Mining & Data warehousing, etc.

In the past decade, the field of physics has witnessed renewed advances in physical systems without mirror (parity) symmetry. Experimentally, chiral magnetic skyrmions discovered in real materials have stirred a great deal of interest in future spintronic applications due to their nanoscale size, topological protection, and energy efficiency. Theoretically, the Hall viscosity, a new universal transport coefficient, through the progress in hydrodynamics has triggered extensive theoretical investigation in quantum Hall systems. This book provides an extensive account of skyrmion dynamics, using various analytical tools, especially the field theory Ward identity that is a first principle method using symmetries and the associated conservation equations. The identity revealed that Hall viscosity is a universal part of skyrmion motion. This book leads readers to frontline research in searching for the role of the mysterious Hall viscosity in skyrmion physics, using the interdisciplinary point of view that encompasses high-energy physics, condensed matter, and materials science. It also provides the necessary backgrounds and physical clarity for advanced undergraduates to meaningfully explore its contents through mathematical expressions conveyed in both vector and index notations.

Nowadays, raw biological data can be easily stored as databases in computers but extracting the required information is the real challenge for researchers. For this reason, bioinformatics tools perform a vital role in extracting and analyzing information from databases. Bioinformatics Tools and Big Data Analytics for Patient describes the applications of bioinformatics, data management, and computational techniques in clinical studies and drug discovery for patient care. The book gives details about the recent developments in the fields of artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and data analytics. It highlights the advances in computational techniques used to perform intelligent medical tasks. Features: Presents recent developments in the fields of artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and data analytics for improved patient care. Describes the applications of bioinformatics, data management, and computational techniques in clinical studies and drug discovery. Summarizes several strategies, analyses, and optimization methods for patient healthcare. Focuses on drug discovery and development by cloud computing and data-driven research The targeted audience comprises academics, research scholars, healthcare professionals, hospital managers, pharmaceutical chemists, the biomedical industry, software engineers, and IT professionals.

This book presents recent and important developments in the field of Photonics and Optoelectronics, with a particular focus on Laser Technology, Optical Communications, Optoelectronic Devices and Image Processing. At present, Photonics and Optoelectronics Technologies are pivotal to the future of laser, displays, sensors and communication technologies, and currently being developed at an extraordinary rate. This book details the theories underlying the mechanisms involved in the relevant Photonics and Optoelectronics. Devices such as laser diodes, photodetectors, and integrated optoelectronic circuits are investigated. The reviews by leading experts are of interest to researchers and engineers as well as advanced students.

Since the invention of computers or machines, scientists and researchers are trying very hard to enhance their capabilities to perform various tasks. As a consequence, the capabilities of computers are growing exponentially day by day in terms of diverse working domains, versatile jobs, processing speed, and reduced size. Now, we are in the race to make the computers or machines as intelligent as human beings. Artificial Intelligence (AI) came up as a way of making a computer or computer software think in the similar manner the intelligent humans think. AI is inspired by the study of human brain like how humans think, learn, decide and act while trying to solve a problem. The outcomes of this study are the basis of developing intelligent software and systems or Intelligent Computing (IC). An IC system has the capability of reasoning, learning, problem solving, perception, and linguistic intelligence. The IC systems consist of AI techniques as well as other emerging techniques that make a system intelligent. The use of intelligent computing has been seen in almost every sub-domain of computer science such as networking, software engineering, gaming, natural language processing, computer vision, image processing, data science, robotics, expert systems, and security. Now a days, the use of IC can also be seen for solving various complex problems in diverse domains such as for predicting disease in medical science, predicting land fertility or crop productivity in agriculture science, predicting market growth in economics, weather forecasting and so on. For all these reasons, this book presents the advances in AI techniques, under the umbrella of IC. In this context, the book includes the recent research works have been done in the areas of machine learning, neural networks, deep learning, evolutionary algorithms, genetic algorithms, swarm intelligence, fuzzy systems and so on. This book provides theoretical, algorithmic, simulation, and implementation-based recent research advancements related to the Intelligent Computing.

This book elaborates fuzzy machine and deep learning models for single class mapping from multi-sensor, multi-temporal remote sensing images while handling mixed pixels and noise. It also covers the ways of pre-processing and spectral dimensionality reduction of temporal data. Further, it discusses the ‘individual sample as mean’ training approach to handle heterogeneity within a class. The appendix section of the book includes case studies such as mapping crop type, forest species, and stubble burnt paddy fields. Key features: Focuses on use of multi-sensor, multi-temporal data while handling spectral overlap between classes Discusses range of fuzzy/deep learning models capable to extract specific single class and separates noise Describes pre-processing while using spectral, textural, CBSI indices, and back scatter coefficient/Radar Vegetation Index (RVI) Discusses the role of training data to handle the heterogeneity within a class Supports multi-sensor and multi-temporal data processing through in-house SMIC software Includes case studies and practical applications for single class mapping This book is intended for graduate/postgraduate students, research scholars, and professionals working in environmental, geography, computer sciences, remote sensing, geoinformatics, forestry, agriculture, post-disaster, urban transition studies, and other related areas.

Features • Provides a cutting edge review of the latest emerging science, technology and applications in the field. • Tackles a topic with fast growing interest in USA, Europe and China. • Explores the simple and cheap design and tests of lasers, and outline the feasible applications.

The text discusses needs, problems in the implementation of the 5G mobile communication system in the healthcare sector. It covers the issues related to advanced modulation schemes, telehealth, and remote diagnosis. It discusses important topics including virtual healthcare monitoring, spectrum sensing techniques, the role of 5G in medical applications, the role of nano-communication in healthcare informatics, and remote diagnosis. The text will be useful for graduate students, academic researchers, and professionals in the fields of electrical, and electronics and communication engineering, and allied health care. The book- Discusses novel architecture to manage the allocation of resources, interference issue among the existed and advanced radios. Provides focuse to estimate the performance, cost and accommodation of the next generation technologies design for IoT, modern health- care, and education. Covers advanced technologies and its role in health care. Discusses key topics including spectrum access, advanced waveforms, which can help in standardization of 5G based smart hospital. Explores impact of telemedicine in smart health care. This reference text covers the latest advances in the field of 5G Mobile Communication for healthcare informatics, addressing both original algorithm development and new applications of 5G mobile Communications.

The manufacturing industries remain the foundation of local, regional, and global economies. Manufacturing plants operate in dynamic markets that demand upgrading with transformational technologies for maintaining profitability, competitiveness, and business sustainability. Yet most manufacturing plants currently use technologies that are no longer competitive and industry leaders face an overwhelming array of operational challenges that require agile and enhanced transformational solutions. This book offers manufacturers effective strategies and tools for the adoption and implementation of advanced operational technologies to ensure long-term innovation, efficiency, and profitability. The book covers advanced automation integration in manufacturing, including digitization, AI, machine learning, IIoT, and cybersecurity. It describes innovation, development, and integration of control technologies for sustainable manufacturing. It explains how to upgrade existing manufacturing plants for the global market. It shows how to apply emerging technologies including asset optimization and process integration for product lifecycle improvements, plant operation and maintenance enhancement, and supply chain integration. This book serves as a strategic guide to applying advanced operational technologies for engineers, industry professionals, and management in the manufacturing sector.

- First book to focus on deep learning-based approaches in the field of cancer diagnostics. - Covers the state of the art across a wide-range of topics. - Topics include preprocessing data, prediction of cancer susceptibility and reoccurence, detection of different cancers, complexity and challenges.

By proposing and forming a mobile manipulator for modern multi-floor buildings, A Robotic Framework for the Mobile Manipulator: Theory and Application helps readers visualize an end-to-end workflow for making a robot system work in a targeted environment. From a product-oriented viewpoint, this book is considered as a bridge from theories to real products, in which robotic software modules and the robotic system integration are mainly concerned. In the end, readers will have an overview of how to build and integrate various single robotic modules to execute a list of designed tasks in the real world, as well as how to make a robot system work independently, without human interventions. With references and execution guidelines provided at the end of each chapter, the book will be a useful tool for developers and researchers looking to expand their knowledge about the robotics and the robotic software.

Atomically dispersed metallic materials (ADMMs) are the most advanced materials used in energy conversion and storage devices to improve their performance for portable electronics, electric vehicles, and stationary power stations. Atomically Dispersed Metallic Materials for Electrochemical Energy Technologies aims to facilitate research and development of ADMMs for applications in electrochemical energy devices. It provides a comprehensive description of the science and technology of ADMMs, including material selection, synthesis, characterization, and their applications in fuel cells, batteries, supercapacitors, and H2O/CO2/N2 electrolysis to encourage progress in commercialization of these clean energy technologies. Offers a comprehensive introduction to various types of ADMMs, their fabrication and characterization, and how to improve their performance Analyzes, compares, and discusses advances in different ADMMs in the application of electrochemical energy devices, including commercial requirements Describes cutting-edge methodologies in composite ADMM design, selection, and fabrication Summarizes current achievements, challenges, and future research directions Written by authors with strong academic and industry expertise, this book will be attractive to researchers and industry professionals working in the fields of materials, chemical, mechanical, and electrical engineering, as well as nanotechnology and clean energy.

Provides background material needed to understand digital twin technology Presents computational facet of digital twin Includes physics based and surrogate model representations Addresses the problem of uncertainty in measurements and modeling Discusses practical case studies of implementation of digital twins addressing additive manufacturing, server farms, predictive maintenance, and smart cities

This book offers a thorough exploration of the three-dimensional integration of resistive memory in all aspects, from the materials, devices, array-level issues, and integration structures to its applications. Resistive random-access memory (RRAM) is one of the most promising candidates for next-generation nonvolatile memory applications owing to its superior characteristics including simple structure, high switching speed, low power consumption, and compatibility with standard complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) process. To achieve large-scale, high-density integration of RRAM, the 3D cross array is undoubtedly the ideal choice. This book introduces the 3D integration technology of RRAM, and breaks it down into five parts: 1: Associative Problems in Crossbar array and 3D architectures; 2: Selector Devices and Self-Selective Cells; 3: Integration of 3D RRAM; 4: Reliability Issues in 3D RRAM; 5: Applications of 3D RRAM beyond Storage. The book aspires to provide a relevant reference for students, researchers, engineers, and professionals working with resistive random-access memory or those interested in 3D integration technology in general.

Describes the basics of aircraft flight simulation and control. Features a new chapter on the dynamics and control principles of drones and UAVs. Includes new sections, chapter problems, examples, and simulator exercises. Includes case studies of control laws. Discusses modeling and simulation for determining the aircraft’s response to typical control inputs with MATLAB®/Simulink® examples.

Provides understanding of the device architecture, electrode design, and pros-cons of classical supercapacitors Explains material design in the context of electrochemical energy storage Covers state-of-the-art quantum supercapacitor and technological challenges Describes advanced version of supercapacitor devices describing macro-to-micro scale devices and applications at different scales Include details of challenges and outline of future designs

Blockchain technology has been penetrating every aspect of Information and Communications Technology (ICT), and its use has been growing rapidly in recent years. The interest and development of this technology has primarily been driven by the enormous value growth of cryptocurrencies and large investments of venture capital in blockchain start-ups. Blockchain for Smart Systems: Computing Technologies and Applications is intended to clarify and define, in simple terms, the technology behind blockchain. It provides a deep dive into the core fundamentals of blockchain: hashing algorithm behind each block, distributed technology, smart contracts, and private vs. public blockchain. Features Discusses fundamental theories of practical and sophisticated applications of blockchain technology Includes case studies Discusses the concepts with illustrations, appropriate figures, tables, and simple language This book is primarily aimed at undergraduates, graduates, research scholars, academicians, and industry and technology enthusiasts working in various aspects of blockchain technology.