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Robotics / AI
Topics in System Engineering
UNDERWATER LABRIFORM-SWIMMING ROBOT
by Mofeed Turky Rashid (University of Basrah, Iraq) & Luigi Fortuna (University of Catania, Italy)
This book provides a simplified description of how to design an underwater swimming robot, inspired by the mechanism of the Labriform mode of fish. This style of swimming depends on the pectoral fins only as a main locomotor for movement. A unique model with fins having a concave shape allows the highest thrust force to be achieved during the power period and the lowest drag force during the recovery period, especially if the velocity values between the powering and recovery periods are manipulated.
Besides the ability to swim quickly, the proposed model was also inspired by a method of maneuvering based on the principle of differential drive for two-wheel mobile robot, achieving the minimum turning radius by controlling the speed of the rowing fins.
Key Features
• Labriform swimming robot, concave pectoral fins, differential drive principle, glider model and center of mass and buoyancy Readership: Advanced undergraduate and graduate students, researchers, mechanical and mechatronics engineers.
300pp 978-981-123-739-3 May 2022 US$108 £95
by Laura Menini (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy), Corrado Possieri (IASI-CNR, Italy) & Antonio Tornambè (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy)
Key Features
• Showcases efficient computational tools to solve a wide variety of problems arising in robotics and control • Demonstrates the versatility of polynomial techniques, which may lead to new and interesting research fields
Readership: Readers and practitioners in the fields of algebraic geometry, control theory, and robotics.
550pp 978-1-80061-045-3 Nov 2021 US$148 £130
Series on Deep Learning Neural Networks - Vol 1
ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS
Methods and Applications in Fractional Order Systems
by Susmita Mall (National Institute of Technology Rourkela, India) & Snehashish Chakraverty (National Institute of Technology Rourkela, India)
Key Feature
• There is no book available as that of the present one (to the best of our knowledge) but few of the related books are given in section 10.
These books are mainly of ANN models and/or with respect to some particular methods/applications
Readership: This book will be an essential source for students, scholars, practitioners, researchers and academicians in the assorted fields of engineering and sciences interested to model physical problems with ease through the use of ANN.
by Lei Cui (Curtin University, Australia) & Jian S Dai (King’s College London, UK)
Robots interact with the world through curves and surfaces — the subjects of study in differential geometry. This book applies the moving-frame method, developed extensively by Elie Cartan, and the adjoint approach, conceived by Ernesto Cesàro, to study the kinematics of two surfaces subject to rolling contact and sliding – rolling contact to demonstrate the applications in robotic in-hand manipulation.
Firstly, it explores two surfaces, and the geometry of both surfaces comes into play. Secondly, the book focuses on the geometry of the two surfaces within the encompassing space (extrinsic) rather than within the surfaces (intrinsic) because the book is concerned with the kinematics of one surface in three-dimensional Euclidean space — the real world. The book then concludes by applying this approach in robotic in-hand manipulation in the last chapter.
Readership: Undergraduate students, graduate students, engineers, and researchers in the field of biorobotics.
224pp 978-1-78634-842-5 Mar 2020 US$88 £75
USING SCIENCE IN CYBERSECURITY
by Leigh Metcalf (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) & Jonathan Spring (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Deploying the scientific method in cybersecurity today is a common-sense approach that is a tough topic in the field of cybersecurity. While most publications in the field emphasize that scientific principles are necessary, there are very few, if any, guides that uncover these principles.
This book will give readers practical tools for cybersecurity. It examines the path of developing cybersecurity foundations while taking into account uncertain data. Extensive examples demonstrate how to deploy cybersecurity to sort our day-to-day problems.
Key Features
• It covers a comprehensive collection of scientific methods in cybersecurity research • This book describes and presents the best practises in cybersecurity
Readership: Advanced undergraduate and graduate students, researchers and practitioners in the fields of cybersecurity, information security, and science of cybersecurity.
