Mastering Ruby on Rails - - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Booktok.dk

Radar Detection Theory of Sliding Window Processes - Graham Weinberg - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Constant false alarm rate detection processes are important in radar signal processing. Such detection strategies are used as an alternative to optimal Neyman-Pearson based decision rules, since they can be implemented as a sliding window process running on a radar range-Doppler map. This book examines the development of such detectors in a modern framework. With a particular focus on high resolution X-band maritime surveillance radar, recent approaches are outlined and examined. Performance is assessed when the detectors are run in real X-band radar clutter. The book introduces relevant mathematical tools to allow the reader to understand the development, and follow its implementation.

Sliding Mode Control for Synchronous Electric Drives - Sergey E. Ryvkin - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

This volume presents the theory of control systems with sliding mode applied to electrical motors and power converters. It demonstrates the methodology of control design and the original algorithms of control and observation. Practically all semiconductor devices are used in power converters, that feed electrical motors, as power switches. A switching mode offers myriad attractive, inherent properties from a control viewpoint, especially a sliding mode. Sliding mode control supplies high dynamics to systems, invariability of systems to changes of their parameters and of exterior loads in combination with simplicity of design. Unlike linear control, switching sliding mode control does not replace the control system, but uses the natural properties of the control plant system effectively to ensure high control quality. This is the first text that thoroughly describes the application of the highly theoretical control design approach to synchronous drives in practice. It examines in detail the different features of various types of synchronous motors and converters with regard to sliding mode control design. It further presents a detailed analysis of control issues and mechanical coordinate observation design for various types of synchronous motors, of power converters, and various drive control structures. It also discusses the digital implementation of control, observation and identification algorithms. The potential of sliding mode control and observation are moreover demonstrated in numerical and experimental results from real control plants. This work is intended for professionals and advanced students who work in the field of electric drive control. It is also recommended to experts in control theory application, who work with sliding modes for the control of electrical motors and power converters.

Rails Through the Clay - A History of London's Tube Railways - Bog af Alan A. Jackson - Hardback

\Rails Through the Clay\ was first published in 1962.

Sliding Mode Control - Theory And Applications - Bog af Christopher Edwards - Hardback

This text provides the reader with a grounding in sliding mode control and is appropriate for the graduate with a basic knowledge of classical control theory and some knowledge of state-space methods. From this basis, more advanced theoretical

Protocol-Based Sliding Mode Control - Jun Song - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

This book discusses the Sliding Mode Control (SMC) problems of networked control systems (NCSs) under various communication protocols including static/dynamic/periodic event-triggered mechanism, and stochastic communication, Round-Robin, weighted try-once-discard, multiple-packet transmission, and the redundant channel transmission protocol. The super-twisting algorithm and the extended-state-observer-based SMC scheme are described in this book for suppressing chattering. Besides, the SMC designs for two-dimensional (1-D) and two-dimensional (2-D) NCSs are illustrated as well. Features: - Captures recent advances of theories, techniques, and applications of networked sliding mode control from an engineering-oriented perspective. Includes new design ideas and optimization techniques of networked sliding mode control theory. Provides advanced tools to apply networked sliding mode control techniques in the practical applications. Discusses some new tools to the engineering applications while dealing with the model uncertainties and external disturbances. This book aims at Researchers and professionals in Control Systems, Computer Networks, Internet of Things, and Communication Systems.

Friction-Induced Vibrations and Self-Organization - Mechanics and Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics of Sliding Contact - Bog af Michael Nosonovsky - Pape

Friction-Induced Vibrations and Self-Organization - Mechanics and Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics of Sliding Contact - Bog af Michael Nosonovsky - Pape

Protocol-Based Sliding Mode Control - Bog af Jun (Anhui University Song - Hardback

This book discusses the Sliding Mode Control (SMC) problems of networked control systems (NCSs) under various communication protocols including static/dynamic/periodic event-triggered mechanism, and stochastic communication, Round-Robin, weighted try-once-discard, multiple-packet transmission, and the redundant channel transmission protocol.

Sliding Mode Control of Switching Power Converters - Siew Chong (the Hong Kong Polytechnic University Tan - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Sliding Mode Control of Switching Power Converters: Techniques and Implementation is perhaps the first in-depth account of how sliding mode controllers can be practically engineered to optimize control of power converters. A complete understanding of this process is timely and necessary, as the electronics industry moves toward the use of renewable energy sources and widely varying loads that can be adequately supported only by power converters using nonlinear controllers. Of the various advanced control methods used to handle the complex requirements of power conversion systems, sliding mode control (SMC) has been most widely investigated and proved to be a more feasible alternative than fuzzy and adaptive control for existing and future power converters. Bridging the gap between power electronics and control theory, this book employs a top-down instructional approach to discuss traditional and modern SMC techniques. Covering everything from equations to analog implantation, it: - - Provides a comprehensive general overview of SMC principles and methods - - - Offers advanced readers a systematic exposition of the mathematical machineries and design principles relevant to construction of SMC, then introduces newer approaches - - - Demonstrates the practical implementation and supporting design rules of SMC, based on analog circuits - - - Promotes an appreciation of general nonlinear control by presenting it from a practical perspective and using familiar engineering terminology - With specialized coverage of modeling and implementation that is useful to students and professionals in electrical and electronic engineering, this book clarifies SMC principles and their application to power converters. Making the material equally accessible to all readers, whether their background is in analog circuit design, power electronics, or control engineering, the authors—experienced researchers in their own right—elegantly and practically relate theory, application, and mathematical concepts and models to corresponding industrial targets.

Rails Through the Clay - A History of London's Tube Railways - Bog af Alan A. Jackson - Paperback

First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Individual Duty within a Human Rights Discourse - Douglas Hodgson - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Over the past two decades or so, legal literature has devoted much attention to various human rights issues at both the national and international levels. Yet there has been comparatively little written on the concept and importance of individual duty within the human rights discourse. This book attempts to comprehensively and systematically examine the corollary of human right - the principle of individual duty - from a number of different perspectives, including history, the law (principally international human rights and humanitarian law and national constitutional law), philosophy, jurisprudence, religion, and ethics. The author attempts to demonstrate that a greater emphasis upon individual duties is consistent with a cultural relativist critique, natural law theory, the experience of national legal systems and regional human rights systems, certain socio-political philosophies and conventional sociological postulates, and the dictates of good public policy. The author urges the assignment of a greater, indeed revived, role for the principle of individual duty in order to achieve a more salutary balance between rights and duties and in the relationship between individual freedom and the welfare of the general community.

Advances in Discrete-Time Sliding Mode Control - Li Li - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The focus of this book is on the design of a specific control strategy using digital computers. This control strategy referred to as Sliding Mode Control (SMC), has its roots in (continuous-time) relay control. This book aims to explain recent investigations'' output in the field of discrete-time sliding mode control (DSMC). The book starts by explaining a new robust LMI-based (state-feedback and observer-based output-feedback) DSMC including a new scheme for sparsely distributed control. It includes a novel event-driven control mechanism, called actuator-based event-driven scheme, using a synchronized-rate biofeedback system for heart rate regulation during cycle-ergometer. Key Features: Focuses on LMI-based SMC (sliding mode control) for uncertain discrete-time system using novel nonlinear components in the control law Makes reader understand the techniques of designing a discrete controller based on the flexible sliding functions Proposes new algorithms for sparsifying control and observer network through multi-objective optimization frameworks Discusses a framework for the design of SMC for two-dimensional systems along with analyzing the controllability of two-dimensional systems Discusses novel schemes for sparsifying the control network

Fiduciary Duty and the Atmospheric Trust - Ken Coghill - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

This book explores the application of concepts of fiduciary duty or public trust in responding to the policy and governance challenges posed by policy problems that extend over multiple terms of government or even, as in the case of climate change, human generations. The volume brings together a range of perspectives including leading international thinkers on questions of fiduciary duty and public trust, Australia''s most prominent judicial advocate for the application of fiduciary duty, top law scholars from several major universities, expert commentary from an influential climate policy think-tank and the views of long-serving highly respected past and present parliamentarians. The book presents a detailed examination of the nature and extent of fiduciary duty, looking at the example of Australia and having regard to developments in comparable jurisdictions. It identifies principles that could improve the accountability of political actors for their responses to major problems that may extend over multiple electoral cycles.

Instrumentation for Heavy Ion Nuclear Research - Bog - Hardback

Reflecting recent innovations in heavy ion detection systems, this volume presents the state of the art in these systems and discusses plans and techniques for new instrumentation to explore the newest frontier of heavy ion science relativistic heavy ions.

Heavy Metals in the Environment - - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A successful modern heavy metal control program for any industry will include not only traditional water pollution control, but also air pollution control, soil conservation, site remediation, groundwater protection, public health management, solid waste disposal, and combined industrial-municipal heavy metal waste management. In fact, it should be a total environmental control program. Comprehensive in scope, Heavy Metals in the Environment provides technical and economical information on the development of a feasible total heavy metal control program that can benefit industry and local municipalities. The book discusses the importance and contamination of metals such as lead, chromium, cadmium, zinc, copper, nickel, iron, and mercury. It covers important research of metals in the environment, the processes and mechanisms for metals control and removal, the environmental behavior and effects of engineered metal and metal oxide nanoparticles, environmental geochemistry of high arsenic aquifer systems, nano-technology applications in metal ion adsorption, biosorption of metals, and heavy metal removal by expopolysaccharide-producing cyanobacteria. The authors delineate technologies for metals treatment and management, metal bearing effluents, metal-contaminated solid wastes, metal finishing industry wastes and brownfield sites, and arsenic-contaminated groundwater streams. They also discuss control, treatment, and management of metal emissions from motor vehicles. The authors reflect the breadth of the field and draw on personal experiences to provide an in-depth presentation of environmental pollution sources, waste characteristics, control technologies, management strategies, facility innovations, process alternatives, costs, case histories, effluent standards, and future trends for each industrial or commercial operation. The methodologies and technologies discussed are directly applicable to the waste management problems that must be met in all industries.