Automotive Electricity

Electric Drives

In the last few decades, electrical goods have become a fixture of our everyday lives, and in the last decade, although at a slow rate, the issue of using electricity in cars has also developed. This title discusses both the historic and scientific issues surrounding automotive electricity, as well as potential future developments, such as hybrid vehicles and fuel cells. In the current context of ...

Systems of Systems

In recent decades, the systems designed in the fields of banking, health, transportation, space, aeronautics, defense, etc. have been becoming increasingly larger. With the growing maturity of information and communication technologies, systems have been interconnected within growing networks, yielding new services through the combination of the system functionalities. This has led to an increasin...

Markov Decision Processes in Artificial Intelligence

Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) are a mathematical framework for modeling sequential decision problems under uncertainty as well as Reinforcement Learning problems.
Written by experts in the field, this book provides a global view of current research using MDPs in Artificial Intelligence. It starts with an introductory presentation of the fundamental aspects of MDPs (planning in MDPs, Reinforce...

Dielectric materials for electric engineering

Part 1 is particularly concerned with physical properties, electrical ageing and modeling with topics such as the physics of charged dielectric materials, conduction mechanisms, dielectric relaxation, space charge, electric ageing and life end models and dielectric experimental characterization.
Part 2 concerns some applications specific to dielectric materials: insulating oils for transformers, ...

Micro, Nanosystems & Systems on Chips

Modeling, Control and Estimation

Micro and nanosystems represent a major scientific and technological challenge, with actual and potential applications in almost all fields of the human activity.
The aim of the present book is to present how concepts from dynamical control systems (modeling, estimation, observation, identification, feedback control) can be adapted and applied to the development of original very small-scale syst...

Arbitrary Lagrangian–Eulerian and Fluid–Structure Interaction

Numerical Simulation

This book provides the fundamental basics for solving fluid structure interaction problems, and describes different algorithms and numerical methods used to solve problems where fluid and structure can be weakly or strongly coupled.
These approaches are illustrated with examples arising from industrial or academic applications. Each of these approaches has its own performance and limitations. Th...

Discrete-time Asset Pricing Models in Applied Stochastic Finance

Stochastic finance and financial engineering are fields of science that have expanded rapidly over the past four decades, due mainly to the success of sophisticated quantitative methodologies in helping professionals manage financial risks. In recent years, we have witnessed a tremendous acceleration in research efforts aimed at better comprehending, modeling and hedging these types of risk, and o...

Co-design Approaches for Dependable Networked Control Systems

Networked Control Systems (NCS) is a growing field of application and calls for the development of integrated approaches requiring multidisciplinary skills in control, real-time computing and communication protocols.
This book describes co-design approaches, and establishes the links between the QoC (Quality of Control) and QoS (Quality of Service) of the network and computing resources. The meth...

Communicating Embedded Systems

Network Applications

Embedded systems become more and more complex and require having some knowledge in various disciplines such as electronics, data processing, telecommunications and networks.
Without detailing all the aspects related to the design of embedded systems, this book, which was written by specialists in electronics, data processing and telecommunications and networks, gives an interesting point of view...

VHF / UHF Filters and Multicouplers

Applications of Air Resonators

This book describes the various devices used in radio communication and broadcasting to achieve high selectivity filtering and coupling.
After providing a background in the basics of microwave theory and more detailed material – including a special chapter on precision and errors in measurement – the reader will find detailed descriptions, manufacturing processes, and, for the most useful inst...