The Geometry of Sensor Information Utilization in Nonlinear Feedback Control of Vehicle Formations -- Determining Environmental Boundaries: Asynchronous Communication and Physical Scales -- Adaptive and Distributed Coordination Algorithms for Mobile Sensing Networks -- Optimization-Based Control of Multi-Vehicle Systems -- Modeling and Analysis of Cooperative Control Systems for Uninhabited Aut…
Introduction -- Kinematics and Dynamics -- Model-based Control -- Learning-Based Control -- Further Topics on Learning-based Control -- Shared Control -- Conclusions.This monograph presents a novel concept of a mobile robot, which is a single-wheel, gyroscopically stabilized robot. The robot is balanced by a spinning wheel attached through a two-link manipulator at the wheel bearing, and actuat…
Transformations and Projections -- Differential Geometry of Curves -- Design of Curves -- Splines -- Differential Geometry of Surfaces -- Design of Surfaces -- Solid Modeling -- Computations for Geometric Design -- Geometric Modeling Using Point Clouds -- Finite Element Method -- Optimization.A new discipline is said to attain maturity when the subject matter takes the shape of a textbook. Seve…
“It will take a hundred flights ...” -- Columbia delivers -- Recovery after Challenger -- Extended capabilities -- Golden age -- A miniature space station -- Uncertain future -- “In my book, they always landed ...”.On February 1st 2003, one of the worst and most public disasters ever witnessed in the human space programme unfolded with horrifying suddenness in the skies above north cent…
to Space Life Sciences -- Space Biology -- The Neuro-Sensory System in Space -- The Cardio-Vascular System in Space -- The Musculo-Skeletal System in Space -- Psycho-Sociological Issues of Spaceflight -- Operational Space Medicine -- Space Life Sciences Investigator’S Guide.A total of more than 240 human space flights have been completed to date, involving about 450 astronauts from various co…
Space Cryocoolers for 4–18 K Applications -- 20 to 80 K Long-life Stirling Cryocoolers -- Space Pulse Tube Cryocooler Developments -- Commercial and Industrial Pulse Tube Cryocoolers -- Thermoacoustically-Driven Pulse Tube Cryocoolers -- Linear Compressor Development and Modeling -- Pulse Tube Analysis and Experimental Measurements -- Regenerator Materials Development and Testing -- Regenerat…
Martin Dechow, Claire Nurcombe: Aircraft Environmental Control Systems -- Judith Murawski: Occupational and Public Health Risks -- Nadia Boschi, Fariborz Haghighat: Aircraft Cabin Air: Environmental Requirements -- Neil Pollock: Human Physical Stresses at Normal and Abnormal Cabin Pressures -- Paul Giangrande: Air Travel and Thrombosis -- John Moyle, Helen Muir: Disruptive Behaviour ('Air Rage'…
Nonlinear Adaptive Stabilization via System Immersion: Control Design and Applications -- Cascaded Nonlinear Time-varying Systems: Analysis and Design -- Control of Mechanical Systems from Aerospace Engineering -- Compositional Modelling of Distributed-parameter Systems -- Algebraic Analysis of Control Systems Defined by Partial Differential Equations -- Structural Properties of Discrete and Co…
Basic Photophysics -- Physical Properties of Paints -- Radiative Energy Transport and Intensity-Based Methods -- Image and Data Analysis Techniques -- Lifetime-Based Methods -- Uncertainty -- Time Response -- Applications of Pressure Sensitive Paint -- Applications of Temperature Sensitive Paint.Luminescent molecule sensors, called pressure-sensitive paint (PSP) and temperature-sensitive paint …
to Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) -- ITS: A Short History and a Perspective on the Future -- ITS Organizational Issues, Regionalism and the Transportation/Information Infrastructure -- Transportation Operations: An Organizational and Institutional Perspective -- Deploying the Transportation/Information Infrastructure -- ITS Deployment and the “Competitive Region” -- ITS: Implicati…