Bøker av Clarence W. (University of British Columbia de Silva

This book provides cutting edge insight into systems dynamics and related controls coverage for both students and practicing engineers. Updated throughout for the second edition, it serves as a firm foundation to develop expertise in design, prototyping, control, instrumentation, experimentation, and performance analysis.

This book covers sensors and multiple sensor systems, including sensor networks and multi-sensor data fusion. It presents the physics and principles of operation and discusses sensor selection, ratings and performance specifications, necessary hardware and software for integration into an engineering system and signal processing and data analysis. Additionally, it discusses parameter estimation, decision making and practical applications. Even though the book has all the features of a course textbook, it also contains a wealth of practical information on the subject.

This introductory textbook on engineering system instrumentation emphasizes sensors, transducers, actuators, and devices for component interconnection. The book deals with "instrumenting" an engineering system through the incorporation of suitable sensors, actuators, and associated interface hardware including filters, amplifiers and other signal modifiers. In view of the practical considerations, design issues, and industrial techniques that are presented throughout the book, and in view of the simplified and snap-shot style presentation of more advanced theory and concepts, it also serves as a useful reference for engineers, technicians, project managers, and other practicing professionals in industry and in research laboratories.

This book incorporates the fundamentals into analytical methods, modeling approaches, numerical methods, experimental procedures, and design techniques throughout. Concepts, approaches, and tools are demonstrated through a large number of examples and case studies. It is an outgrowth of the author's experience in teaching courses in mechanics of materials, statics, dynamics, modeling, vibration, instrumentation, testing, design, and control. The practical considerations, design issues, engineering techniques, and applications, and the simplified snapshot-style presentation of advanced theory and concepts, make this a useful reference for professionals as well.

Suitable for students of engineering, this text offers the multidisciplinary approach needed to develop a foundation in mechatronics. It covers electrical and mechanical components, sensors and instrumentation, drives and actuators, controls, signal processing, component interfacing, modeling, and design.

A combination of research, teaching and industrial applications in the field of intelligent and fuzzy-logic control. The book introduces traditional control techniques and contrasts them with intelligent control. Several methods of representing and processing knowledge are presented.

Discusses such core subjects as dynamic system modeling, electrical components and analysis, mechanical components and analysis, robotics, drives and actuators, control systems, digital processing and hardware, communication and interfacing, software tools, design, and prototyping.