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  • Engine and Tractor Power 4th Edition

    The text was written for students in colleges of agriculture as well as others with an interest in engines and motor vehicles. Although the primary focus is on engines and farm tractors, many of the concepts also apply to automobiles, trucks, self-propelled farm machinery, lawn and garden tractors, and other vehicles. Updates include new governmental regulations, new technological developments, ... Read more

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  • Mechatronics and Intelligent Systems for Off-road Vehicles

    Rapid developments in electronics over the past two decades have induced a move from purely mechanical vehicles to mechatronics design. Recent advances in computing, sensors, and information technology are pushing mobile equipment design to incorporate higher levels of automation under the novel concept of intelligent vehicles. Mechatronics and Intelligent Systems for Off-road Vehicles introduces ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

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    Do you need to get up to date with the world's most popular networking technology? With this resource you will discover everything you need to know about Ethernet and its implementation in the automotive industry. Enhance your technical understanding and better inform your decision-making process so that you can experience the benefits of Ethernet implementation. From new market opportunities, to ... Read more

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  • Applied Dynamics

    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Applied Dynamics is an important branch of engineering mechanics widely applied to mechanical and automotive engineering, aerospace and biomechanics as well as control engineering and mechatronics. The computational methods presented are based on common fundamentals. For this purpose analytical mechanics turns out to be very useful where D’Alembert’s principle in the Lagrangian formulation proves ... Read more

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  • Hybrid Electric Vehicles

    Energy Management Strategies

    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This SpringerBrief deals with the control and optimization problem in hybrid electric vehicles. Given that there are two (or more) energy sources (i.e., battery and fuel) in hybrid vehicles, it shows the reader how to implement an energy-management strategy that decides how much of the vehicle’s power is provided by each source instant by instant.Hybrid Electric Vehicles:•introduces methods for ... Read more

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  • Nonlinear Model Predictive Control

    Theory and Algorithms

    Series series Communications and Control Engineering
    Nonlinear Model Predictive Control is a thorough and rigorous introduction to nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) for discrete-time and sampled-data systems. NMPC is interpreted as an approximation of infinite-horizon optimal control so that important properties like closed-loop stability, inverse optimality and suboptimality can be derived in a uniform manner. These results are complemented ... Read more

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  • Common Rail System for GDI Engines

    Modelling, Identification, and Control

    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Progressive reductions in vehicle emission requirements have forced the automotive industry to invest in research and development of alternative control strategies. Continual control action exerted by a dedicated electronic control unit ensures that best performance in terms of pollutant emissions and power density is married with driveability and diagnostics. Gasoline direct injection (GDI) ... Read more

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  • Smart Mobile In-Vehicle Systems

    Next Generation Advancements

    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This is an edited collection by world-class experts, from diverse fields, focusing on integrating smart in-vehicle systems with human factors to enhance safety in automobiles. The book presents developments on road safety, in-vehicle technologies and state-of-the art systems. Includes coverage of DSP technologies in adaptive automobiles, algorithms and evaluation of in-car communication systems, ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Autonomy

    The Quest to Build the Driverless Car—And How It Will Reshape Our World

    An automotive and tech world insider investigates the quest to develop and perfect the driverless car—an innovation that promises to be the most disruptive change to our way of life since the smartphoneWe stand on the brink of a technological revolution. Soon, few of us will own our own automobiles and instead will get around in driverless electric vehicles that we summon with the touch of an app. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Force-Controlled Robotic Assembly Processes of Rigid and Flexible Objects

    Methodologies and Applications

    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book provides comprehensive and integrated approaches for rigid and flexible object assembly. It presents comparison studies with the available force-guided robotic processes and covers contact-state modeling, scheme control strategies, and position searching algorithms. Further, it includes experimental validations for different assembly situations, including those for the assembly of ... Read more

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  • Development of a Methodology for the Evaluation of Active Safety using the Example of Preventive Pedestrian Protection

    by Thomas Helmer ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    The book reports on a new methodology for optimization and evaluation of traffic safety, which simulates the processes involved in traffic conflicts on the basis of detailed dynamical, human, and technical models. The models incorporate the whole spectrum of human cognitive functions and responses, the responses of an active safety system and the interactions between the human and the system as ... Read more

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  • Extremum-Seeking Control and Applications

    A Numerical Optimization-Based Approach

    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Extremum-seeking control tracks a varying maximum or minimum in a performance function such as output or cost. It attempts to determine the optimal performance of a control system as it operates, thereby reducing downtime and the need for system analysis. Extremum-seeking Control and Applications is divided into two parts. In the first, the authors review existing analog-optimization-based ... Read more

    $89.09 USD