Category - "Electrical Engineering"

Three–dimensional image processing is a rapidly developing research topic that has found numerous applications in various scientific fields. These include processing and visualization of 3D medical data, image sequence processing, seismic image processing and many others.

Die Leistungsfähigkeit heutiger Kraftfahrzeugbordnetze ist beschränkt und weitgehend ausgereizt. Abhilfe bietet die Einführung einer neuen Spannungsebene von 42 V. Das Buch beschreibt die Absicherungs- und Schutzkonzepte für heutige und künftige Fahrzeugbordnetze. Indem es die wesentlichen Aspekte komprimiert darstellt, spricht das Buch Entwickler wie Praktiker an, die bei Automobilzulieferern und Fahrzeugherstellern tätig sind.

Although powerful and very popular in science and engineering, Mathematica can be difficult to learn because of its large command structure and intricate syntax. This book offers a simple, step-by-step approach to help newcomers to Mathematica build the skills needed to use the software in practice. Aimed at professionals with a good mathematics background, this book teaches by example, pointing out potential pitfalls along the way. In an easy-to-use format not found in other books and downloadable code furnished on the Internet, it covers many of the general areas of mathematics, including entering equations, plotting, computing ordinary and partial differential equations, and linear algebra.

Books on fuzzy control rarely cover traditional methods, while books on traditional control practically never cover fuzzy and neural control techniques. As a result, fuzzy control is sometimes used where traditional control methods would work much better. A First Course in Fuzzy and Neural Control covers the methodology and the basics of traditional, fuzzy, and neural control. Since it is the first to fill this niche, this pioneering book has been adopted as a text by many schools, as was the authors' previous First Course book. It will also be of great interest to researchers and practitioners, because it will enable them to narrow the gaps in their understanding of fuzzy and traditional control.

SystemVerilog language consists of three categories of features -- Design, Assertions and Testbench.  Assertions add a whole new dimension to the ASIC verification process.   Engineers are used to writing testbenches in verilog that help verify their design.  Verilog is a procedural language and is very limited in capabilities to handle the complex ASICs built today.  SystemVerilog assertions (SVA) is a declarative language.  The temporal nature of the language provides excellent control over time and allows mulitple processes to execute simultaneously.  This provides the engineers a very strong tool to solve their verification problems.  The language is still new and the thinking is very different from the user's perspective when compared to standard verilog language.  There is not enough expertise or intellectual property available as of today in the field.  While the language has been defined very well, there is no practical guide that shows how to use the language to solve real verification problems.  This book is a practical guide that will help people to understand this new language and adopt assertion based verification methodology quickly.

There are many books on linear systems and control, many of them taking a specific tool or method as the focus of learning and understanding them. Indeed, many of the tools and methods adopted have their own mature and stable literature. This book provides a unifying framework in which to view and apply an understanding of the many challenges of linear systems design, namely linear systems algebra.
The authors develop their description of linear systems algebra in the context of some familiar debates in the systems and control field: frequency domain versus state space methods; deterministic versus stochastic methods; control versus signal processing; modelling versus control design; scalar versus multiobjective methods; performance versus stability; and choosing a design space. Throughout the emphasis remains on how the linear systems algebra approach can be used to look at large numbers of classical and modern control problems.

This book reveals the state-of-the-art in wireless ad-hoc networking. It addresses many complex and open problems for researchers in the field of ad hoc networks. It further discusses some of the key research topics that are expected to promote and accelerate the commercial application of these networks (e.g., MAC, routing, QoS, optimization issues, service discovery, traffic models, mobility, handovers, security). It also presents "killer applications".

Adaptive filtering is a branch of digital signal processing (DSP) that enables the selective enhancement of desired elements of a signal and the reduction of undesired elements. Change detection is another kind of adaptive filtering for non–stationary signals. It is the basic tool in fault detection and diagnosis.