Wireless Sensor Networks presents the latest practical solutions to the design issues presented in wireless-sensor-network-based systems. Novel features of the text, distributed throughout, include workable solutions, demonstration systems and case studies of the design and application of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) based on the first-hand research and development experience of the author, and the chapters on real applications: building fire safety protection; smart home automation; and logistics resource management. Case studies and applications illustrate the practical perspectives of: * sensor node design; * embedded software design; * routing algorithms; * sink node positioning; * co-existence with other wireless systems; * data fusion; * security; * indoor location tracking; * integrating with radio-frequency identification; and * Internet of things Wireless Sensor Networks brings together multiple strands of research in the design of WSNs, mainly from software engineering, electronic engineering, and wireless communication perspectives, into an over-arching examination of the subject, benefiting students, field engineers, system developers and IT professionals. The contents have been well used as the teaching material of a course taught at postgraduate level in several universities making it suitable as an advanced text book and a reference book for final-year undergraduate and postgraduate students.

The Future of Road Transportation presents rapidly growing research towards electrified and automated vehicles. It explains the workings and drawbacks of a conventional vehicle’s powertrain, braking, and steering systems before exploring ADAS equipment and driverless car technologies. Emphasizing the necessary changes in conventional transport systems towards sustainable and smart mobility, the book discusses advanced future mobility technologies and the challenges and considerations for developing sustainable vehicle designs. It overviews the construction details and the research level contents of the power train, battery, charging infrastructure, and other control systems of the electrical vehicles. The book is intended for automotive and electrical engineers and researchers working on electric vehicle technology, autonomous and automated vehicles, automotive sustainability. It will also be useful for mechanical and electrical engineering students taking courses in Automotive/Vehicle Engineering and Automotive Systems and Design.

This book covers vibration testing and identification of dynamic structural systems. It starts from the fundamentals of structural dynamics, and covers the methods of modal analysis and model identification, vibration tests and the related experimental setup. It concludes with an outline of the authors' software, demonstrating practical applications, and illustrated with real-world case studies of full-scale structures. Theory is presented and derived step-by-step, with a detailed measurement system developed for vibration tests. This book is written for Masters students and enables them to understand the theories of system identification and empowers them to apply this in practice.

The Internet plays a significant and growing role in real-time industrial manufacturing, scheduling and management. A considerable research effort has led to the development of new technologies that make it possible to use the Internet for supervision and control of industrial processes. Internet-based Control Systems addresses the challenges that need to be overcome before the Internet can be beneficially used not only for monitoring of but also remote control industrial plants. New design issues such as requirement specification, architecture selection and user-interface design are dealt with. Irregular data transmission and data loss and, in extreme cases, whole-system instability may result from Internet time-delay; this book guards against such phenomena from both computer science and control engineering perspectives. Security breaches and safety risks in an Internet-based control system could have very serious consequences and the author gives specific advice for avoiding them. This book is unique in bringing together multiple strands of research, mainly from computer science and control engineering, into an over-arching study of the entire subject. Practical perspectives are explored both through case studies in several chapters and through real applications including: * robot arm control; * web-based simulator for a catalytic reactor; * virtual supervision parameter control of a water tank system;* model predictive control for a process control unit; * remote control performance monitoring and maintenance; * remote control system design and implementation; Internet-based Control Systems is a useful introduction and guide for researchers in control engineering and computer science and developers of real-time Internet-enabling software. It can also be used for teaching a final year option or elective on Internet-enabled real-time system design, or as an advanced example of real-time software design for graduates.

Wireless Sensor Networks presents the latest practical solutions to the design issues presented in wireless-sensor-network-based systems. Novel features of the text, distributed throughout, include workable solutions, demonstration systems and case studies of the design and application of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) based on the first-hand research and development experience of the author, and the chapters on real applications: building fire safety protection; smart home automation; and logistics resource management. Case studies and applications illustrate the practical perspectives of: * sensor node design; * embedded software design; * routing algorithms; * sink node positioning; * co-existence with other wireless systems; * data fusion; * security; * indoor location tracking; * integrating with radio-frequency identification; and * Internet of things Wireless Sensor Networks brings together multiple strands of research in the design of WSNs, mainly from software engineering, electronic engineering, and wireless communication perspectives, into an over-arching examination of the subject, benefiting students, field engineers, system developers and IT professionals. The contents have been well used as the teaching material of a course taught at postgraduate level in several universities making it suitable as an advanced text book and a reference book for final-year undergraduate and postgraduate students.

The Internet plays a significant and growing role in real-time industrial manufacturing, scheduling and management. A considerable research effort has led to the development of new technologies that make it possible to use the Internet for supervision and control of industrial processes. Internet-based Control Systems addresses the challenges that need to be overcome before the Internet can be beneficially used not only for monitoring of but also remote control industrial plants. New design issues such as requirement specification, architecture selection and user-interface design are dealt with. Irregular data transmission and data loss and, in extreme cases, whole-system instability may result from Internet time-delay; this book guards against such phenomena from both computer science and control engineering perspectives. Security breaches and safety risks in an Internet-based control system could have very serious consequences and the author gives specific advice for avoiding them. This book is unique in bringing together multiple strands of research, mainly from computer science and control engineering, into an over-arching study of the entire subject. Practical perspectives are explored both through case studies in several chapters and through real applications including: * robot arm control; * web-based simulator for a catalytic reactor; * virtual supervision parameter control of a water tank system;* model predictive control for a process control unit; * remote control performance monitoring and maintenance; * remote control system design and implementation; Internet-based Control Systems is a useful introduction and guide for researchers in control engineering and computer science and developers of real-time Internet-enabling software. It can also be used for teaching a final year option or elective on Internet-enabled real-time system design, or as an advanced example of real-time software design for graduates.

This book presents revised selected papers from the 18th International Forum on Digital TV and Wireless Multimedia Communication, IFTC 2021, held in Shanghai, China, in December 2021.The 41 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 110 submissions. They were organized in topical sections on image analysis; quality assessment; target detection; video processing; big data.

This book presents revised selected papers from the 17th International Forum on Digital TV and Wireless Multimedia Communication, IFTC 2020, held in Shanghai, China, in December 2020.The 21 full papers and 16 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 120 submissions. They were organized in topical sections on image processing; machine learning; quality assessment; telecommunications; video surveillance; and virtual reality.

This book presents revised selected papers from the 16th International Forum on Digital TV and Wireless Multimedia Communication, IFTC 2019, held in Shanghai, China, in September 2019. The 34 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 120 submissions. They were organized in topical sections on image processing; machine learning; quality assessment; telecommunications; video surveillance; virtual reality.

Modeling, Optimization and Control of Zinc Hydrometallurgical Purification Process provides a clear picture on how to develop a mathematical model for complex industrial processes, how to design the optimization strategy, and how to apply control methods in order to achieve desired production target. This book shares the authors' recent ideas/methodologies/algorithms on the intelligent manufacturing of complex industry processes, e.g., how to develop a descriptive framework which could enable the digitalization and visualization of a process and how to develop the controller when the process model is not available.

A classic Chinese text on Taoist meditation, this work has inspired many Ch'i-kung (Qigong) techniques for attaining health, happiness, and long life. The book describes the use of meditation in circulating energy, the role of breath, and the conservation of procreative energy. It is one of the few Taoist treatises to describe the landmarks of spiritual development and document the process of spiritual development from start to finish.