Robotics and Automation Handbook

Robotics and Automation Handbook Review

See more picture

Robotics and Automation Handbook Feature

As the capability and utility of robots has increased dramatically with new technology, robotic systems can perform tasks that are physically dangerous for humans, repetitive in nature, or require increased accuracy, precision, and sterile conditions to radically minimize human error.

The Robotics and Automation Handbook addresses the major aspects of designing, fabricating, and enabling robotic systems and their various applications. It presents kinetic and dynamic methods for analyzing robotic systems, considering factors such as force and torque. From these analyses, the book develops several controls approaches, including servo actuation, hybrid control, and trajectory planning. Design aspects include determining specifications for a robot, determining its configuration, and utilizing sensors and actuators. The featured applications focus on how the specific difficulties are overcome in the development of the robotic system.

With the ability to increase human safety and precision in applications ranging from handling hazardous materials and exploring extreme environments to manufacturing and medicine, the uses for robots are growing steadily. The Robotics and Automation Handbook provides a solid foundation for engineers and scientists interested in designing, fabricating, or utilizing robotic systems.

Check price now

Rerate Products

Customer Review

Computer-Aided Fixture Design: Manufacturing Engineering and Materials Processing Series/55

Computer-Aided Fixture Design: Manufacturing Engineering and Materials Processing Series/55 Review

See more picture

Computer-Aided Fixture Design: Manufacturing Engineering and Materials Processing Series/55 Feature

Illustrates recently developed fixture design and verification technology, focusing on their central role in manufacturing processes. The text uses up-to-date computer technology to minimize costs, increase productivity and assure product quality. It presents advanced data and analysis that is directly applicable to development of comprehensive computer-aided modular fixture design system.

Check price now

Rerate Products

Customer Review

Digital Control Systems Implementation Techniques, Volume 70: Advances in Theory and Applications (Control and Dynamic Systems)

Digital Control Systems Implementation Techniques, Volume 70: Advances in Theory and Applications (Control and Dynamic Systems) Review

See more picture

Digital Control Systems Implementation Techniques, Volume 70: Advances in Theory and Applications (Control and Dynamic Systems) Feature

Praise for Previous Volumes
"This book will be a useful reference to control engineers and researchers. The papers contained cover well the recent advances in the field of modern control theory."
-IEEE GROUP CORRESPONDANCE
"This book will help all those researchers who valiantly try to keep abreast of what is new in the theory and practice of optimal control."
-CONTROL

Check price now

Rerate Products

Customer Review

Piezoelectric Actuators: Control Applications of Smart Materials

Piezoelectric Actuators: Control Applications of Smart Materials Review

See more picture

Piezoelectric Actuators: Control Applications of Smart Materials Feature

Currently, many smart materials exhibit one or multifunctional capabilities that are being effectively exploited in various engineering applications, but these are only a hint of what is possible. Newer classes of smart materials are beginning to display the capacity for self-repair, self-diagnosis, self-multiplication, and self-degradation. Ultimately, what will make them practical and commercially viable are control devices that provide sufficient speed and sensitivity. While there are other candidates, piezoelectric actuators and sensors are proving to be the best choice.

Piezoelectric Actuators: Control Applications of Smart Materials details the authors’ cutting-edge research and development in this burgeoning area. It presents their insights into optimal control strategies, reflecting their latest collection of refereed international papers written for a number of prestigious journals.

Piezoelectric materials are incorporated in devices used to control vibration in flexible structures. Applications include beams, plates, and shells; sensors and actuators for cabin noise control; and position controllers for structural systems such as the flexible manipulator, engine mount, ski, snowboard, robot gripper, ultrasonic motors, and various type of sensors including accelerometer, strain gage, and sound pressure gages.

The contents and design of this book make it useful as a professional reference for scientists and practical engineers who would like to create new machines or devices featuring smart material actuators and sensors integrated with piezoelectric materials. With that goal in mind, this book:

• Describes the piezoelectric effect from a microscopic point of view
• Addresses vibration control for flexible structures and other methods that use active mount
• Covers control of flexible robotic manipulators
• Discusses application to fine-motion and hydraulic control systems
• Explores piezoelectric shunt technology

This book is exceptionally valuable as a reference for professional engineers working at the forefront of numerous industries. With its balanced presentation of theory and application, it will also be of special interest to graduate students studying control methodology.

Check price now

Rerate Products

Customer Review

Thermal Measurements in Electronics Cooling

Thermal Measurements in Electronics Cooling Review

See more picture

Thermal Measurements in Electronics Cooling Feature

Filled with careful explanations, step-by-step instructions, and useful examples, this handbook focuses on real-world considerations and applications of thermal measurement methods in electronics cooling. Fifteen experts in thermal engineering combine their expertise to create a complete guide to this complex topic.
This practical reference covers all aspects of thermal characterization in electronics cooling and thermal management. The first part of the book introduces the concept of electronics cooling and its associated thermal phenomenon and explains why experimental investigation is required. Subsequent chapters explain methods of measuring different parameters and introduce relevant examples. Sources for locating needed equipment, tables, checklists, and to-do lists are included. Sample calculations and methodologies for error analysis ensure that you can put this valuable information to use in your work.

Check price now

Rerate Products

Customer Review

Implementing Concurrent Engineering in Small Companies (Dekker Mechanical Engineering)

Implementing Concurrent Engineering in Small Companies (Dekker Mechanical Engineering) Review

See more picture

Implementing Concurrent Engineering in Small Companies (Dekker Mechanical Engineering) Feature

Presenting a systematic approach to concurrent engineering (CE), this reference accommodates the small corporation's quest to incorporate better design management practices. The author provides an easy-to-follow methodology that eliminates the need for costly consultants and promotes environmentally friendly solutions and introduces three main design models to aid in new, evolutionary, and incremental product design. She examines how the adoption of CE practices improves overall performance. Topics include: engineering specifications for product parameters, conceptual and embodiment design, vendor selection and approval, prototyping, line and equipment installation, and more.

Check price now

Rerate Products

Customer Review

Guidebook for Waste and Soil Remediation: For Non-Hazardous Petroleum and Salt-Contaminated Sites

Guidebook for Waste and Soil Remediation: For Non-Hazardous Petroleum and Salt-Contaminated Sites Review

See more picture

Guidebook for Waste and Soil Remediation: For Non-Hazardous Petroleum and Salt-Contaminated Sites Feature

This book is a valuable guide for engineering professionals involved with the day-to-day management of petroleum and other industry operations. The expert authors develop the concept of limiting constitutes, spill remediation, and waste disposal on site. The book is a how-to compendium for engineers involved in the remediation of 'Non-Hazardous' (i.e., non-nuclear) impacted waste and/or soil. This book contains techniques, data and recommendations for 'how clean is clean'. The book is the result of 10 years of research and experience in the clean-up of oil and gas field non-hazardous waste (NOW).

Check price now

Rerate Products

Customer Review