This book aims at improving the working of Robots using natural phenomenon that exist around us, one such technique is the Natural Immune System. The biological immune system is a great source of inspiration for developing intelligent problem-solving techniques. Like other biologically motivated approaches, Artificial Immune System (AIS) is also a rapidly emerging field. It is used in pattern recognition, fault detection, computer security and a variety of other applications in science and engineering. It is expected that Artificial Immune System will be able to detect faults and make recommendations to a high-level control system about corrective action – similar to that of a human adaptive Immune System which keep the body healthy....
ISBN: 978-3-8433-5669-5
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In a world that is increasingly dependent on technology, safety analysis methods can prevent serious incidents and loss of life. Failures caused by systems, machines or human beings resulting in grave environmental and human consequences, have increased the consciousness about the importance of these methods. This book provides a simple introduction to the methodology of performing a Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA), with elementary steps for executing a Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA). Furthermore, the work is centred around the implementation of a concrete example, which was commissioned by Park Air Systems AS. The subjects of analysis are two integral parts of their advanced air traffic control...
ISBN: 978-3-8383-6905-1
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The subject of this book is to analyze, design and implement a digital front-end that converts the high-speed digital IF samples from a RF-board into a complex, decimated base-band sample stream (signal conditioning). The realization shown in this book is based on the needs for a high-end combined Galileo/GPS receiver. However, the presented algorithm is independent of the usage in a GNSS receiver environment. There are many other possible applications. The part of the receiver described in this book uses a sample rate of 300MHz, the base-band sample stream has a rate of 100MHz. To minimize the cost and complexity of the conditioning section described in this book, the sample rate of the signal is reduced by a factor of 3 and optimized...
ISBN: 978-3-6392-8291-7
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In recent years, both the diagnostic and pharmaceutical industries have begun to seek improved methods of reagent dispensing that would enable them to reduce the amount of reagent used, improve the accuracy and repeatability of the quantities dispensed, and generally expedite the processing of assays and microarrays. This work specifically presents the development of a piezo– actuated microfluidic dispensing system for microdrops generation with real-time closed-loop pressure control that can operate in a drop-on- demand mode using a non-contact liquid transfer method. This system can potentially generate droplets with very high accuracy up to several picoliters in order to generate very high-density microarrays. A simple mathematical...
ISBN: 978-3-8383-6000-3
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In tropical, hot and humid climates where temperature and humidity level are high, air conditioning (AC) systems are necessary for providing thermal comfort to building occupants. For an air conditioned space that needs outside air ventilation to maintain indoor air quality, the ventilation air can bring sensible heat ratio (SHR) of cooling load well below 0.7 since it accounts for as high as 80% of total latent load in the space. The cooling load SHR below this value cannot be handled effectively by conventional AC systems. Handling sensible and latent load separately using a hybrid scheme is an interesting option. A desiccant system can handle the latent load while a conventional system can handle mainly the sensible load. This could...
ISBN: 978-3-8433-5118-8
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Effective and efficient performance diagnosis and evaluation is important and practical with easily available measurements at the building level in most contemporary buildings. This book presents a systematic methodology for building performance evaluation and diagnosis viewing building system as a whole. This methodology involves the development of a building global performance evaluation tool and practical strategy and approach for practical applications using the evaluation tool. The evaluation tool is developed based on simplified building energy models and consolidation AHU models. With the performance prediction using the tool, a performance signature-based diagnosis strategy is developed for performance diagnosis, and a...
ISBN: 978-3-8433-5462-2
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Recent innovation in the field of Very Large Scale Integration has resulted into fabrication of high speed processors. The sequential computers, equipped with such high speed processors, are unable to meet the challenges of various real-life and real- time computational problems in the areas of image processing, climate modeling, remote sensing, medical science etc., that require to process massive volume of data. Parallel processing is one of the most appropriate technologies that can meet the challenges of such application areas. A variety of numeric and non-numeric problems are often required to be solved in the above mentioned areas. Prefix computation, polynomial root finding, matrix-matrix multiplication, conflict graph...
ISBN: 978-3-8433-9341-6
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Advances in increased reliability of materials depend greatly on the details of their microstructure – and the precise relationship between microstructure and mechanical properties becomes even more critical as device dimensions continue to decrease from micron to nanoscale dimensions. Currently, the successful development of a physics-based multi-scale materials model that can predict the device properties is largely hampered by lack of methods for characterizing reliably the local (anisotropic) properties of constituents in a composite material system at the appropriate length scales of interest. This PhD research was focused on developing a new approach that addresses this critical need by coupling the local mechanical response of a...
ISBN: 978-3-8383-2592-7
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An incredible and fascinating travel towards micro and nanotechnology world will lead you into the realisation of a novel biochip for sensors based exclusively on optical principles. A multidisciplinary project which include Chemistry, Physics, Biotechnology, Biology and industry for the realization of biomedical POCT (Point of care testing). The biosensors developed were integrated within an optical biochip connected to an innovative optical platform based on fluorescence coupled to the coverslip and guided by the chip to an optical detector. The potential of the biochip as a biosensor was investigated in depth by means of a direct antigen/antibody interaction carried out inside the flow channels. Following this, bioassays for the...
ISBN: 978-3-6392-2368-2
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There are three strategies for overcoming the spatial mismatch between jobs and home locations: (1) bring jobs closer to low-income neighborhoods; (2) bring affordable housing solutions near to employment generating areas; and (3) provide transportation connections between jobs and housing. To facilitate the planning and development of effective cross-sectoral strategies, a Spatial Decision Support System that ties together a Geographic Information System--with data from the transportation, housing, and economic development sectors--and a Multi-Criteria Decision (MCDM) tool were developed. An interview of urban geospatial data managers in relevant sectors in the Chicago area drove the data requirements of the integrated system....
ISBN: 978-3-6392-5854-7
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The present studies of NAT traversal are focused on the commonest cone type of NAT type which has the biggest market share. There are two basic techniques of NAT traversal which are STUN (Simple Traversal of UDP through NAT) and TURN (Traversal Using Relay NAT). STUN cannot traversal symmetric NAT and TURN would cause high loading on relay server. Except for cone type NAT has been solved, symmetric NAT which assigned outgoing port number increase by sequence has been traversal successfully by predicting next possible outgoing port number. It still exists one type of symmetric NAT which assign outgoing port randomly has not been traversal directly except for using relay server. This paper is intended traversal the symmetric NAT with...
ISBN: 978-3-6392-8630-4
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The classification of pipe crack size from its pulse- echo ultrasonic signal is a difficult task but greatly significant for defect evaluation in pipe testing and the maintenance strategy making. In this book, we use Support Vector Machines (SVM) to classify the pipe crack into correct categories, large size or small size, with the ultrasonic signal data. In order to acquire an optimal input data set, we first select the features from the time and frequency domain on the ultrasonic data. Then a combined method, Sequential Backward Selection (SBS) and Sequential Forward Selection (SFS), is used for features reduction. These two steps are referred as data preprocessing in this book. To build SVM classifier, parameter selection is critical....
ISBN: 978-3-6392-9405-7
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The aim of this work is to investigate the potential offered by a natural fibre composite for applications that require a superior resistance to impact and other forms of dynamic loading. To achieve this, the post-impact behaviour of a jute/polyester laminate has been compared to that offered by two types of glass/polyester laminates. Acoustic emission and thermoelastic stress analysis techniques have been used to investigate damage in these materials. A methodology, involving the combined use of different real-time monitoring techniques and tests for evaluating the residual properties of the composites, has been shown to be useful for characterising the global post-impact behaviour of these materials during post-impact tensile, flexural...
ISBN: 978-3-6392-2374-3
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Rapid development of nano technologies and the evolvement of biotechnology have led to the research of assembling micro components into complex microsystems and manipulation of biological components. In order to develop advanced inspection/handling systems for manipulation and assembly of micro products, robust microassembly strategies can be implemented on a high-speed, repetitive, reliable, reconfigurable, robust and open-architecture microassembly workstation. Due to high accuracy requirements and specific engineering laws which govern the microscale world, microassembly tasks require robust control strategies based on real-time sensory feedback. Vision yields high resolutions of micro objects and scenes along with a stereoscopic...
ISBN: 978-3-8383-2511-8
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Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Aardvark JSFU Mark 4 is a British-made Mine flail vehicle built by Aardvark Clear Mine Limited of Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The JSFU flail system was developed in Aberdeenshire by David Macwatt of Elgin, Scotland and George Sellar Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
ISBN: 978-6-1339-7588-0
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Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The ABC Dragonfly was a British radial engine developed towards the end of First World War. It was expected to deliver excellent performance for the time and was ordered in very large numbers. It proved, however, to be extremely unreliable and was abandoned when its faults were unable to be corrected. ABC Motors was founded in 1911 by Granville Bradshaw, who was also the company's chief designer. In 1917, after initial promising tests of the ABC Wasp air-cooled radial, Bradshaw produced a design for a larger and more powerful engine, the nine-cylinder Dragonfly. The engine was simple and easy to produce, and was predicted to give 340 hp (254 kW) for a weight of 600 lb (273 kg). One distinctive...
ISBN: 978-6-1327-4747-1
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In der Industrie werden derzeit, aufgrund der Reaktionstragheit und der Schwerloslichkeit der Stickoxide meist Trockenverfahren zur Rauchgasentstickung verwendet. Fur bestimmte Anwendungsbereiche sind Nassverfahren gunstiger, weshalb Verfahrensentwicklung gerade in diesem Bereich notwendig ist. In dieser Arbeit erfolgte die Kombination von Absorption, UV-Strahlung und chemischer Reaktion. Die Experimente wurden in drei Blocke geteilt. Im Rahmen der Flussigphasenversuche wurde der Einfluss der UV-Strahlung auf den Nitratabbau und die Folgereaktion durch ein chemisches Reduktionsmittel untersucht, wobei sich zeigte, dass ein simultaner Nitrat- und Nitrtabbau moglich ist. In der Gasphase fuhrte die UV-Strahlung zur unerwunschten...
ISBN: 978-3-6393-1721-3
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Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Die Abteibrucke gilt als erste Stahlbetonbrucke Deutschlands und fuhrt im Berliner Ortsteil Alt-Treptow als Fussgangeruberweg auf die Insel der Jugend. Sie wurde 1916 fertiggestellt und ersetzte eine Fahre, die Besucher auf die Spreeinsel brachte. Die Brucke steht unter Denkmalschutz. Die Abteibrucke befindet sich zwischen dem Treptower Park und einer in der Spree gelegenen Insel. Park und Insel wurden in Vorbereitung der Berliner Gewerbeausstellung 1896 ausgebaut bzw. aufgeschuttet. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
ISBN: 978-6-1305-0950-7
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Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Das Trennen von Stoffgemischen gehort zu den wichtigsten verfahrenstechnischen Grundoperationen. Die meisten Rohstoffe und Produkte aus chemischen Reaktionen sind Stoffgemische. Diese mussen zur weiteren Verarbeitung getrennt werden. Will man aus einer Mischung verschiedener Stoffe einen davon rein gewinnen, nutzt man eines von zahlreichen Trennverfahren. Die Funktionsweise jedes Verfahrens beruht auf der Ausnutzung unterschiedlicher physikalischer und chemischer Eigenschaften der miteinander vermischten Stoffe. In der Metallurgie wird die Stofftrennung von Metallen unter dem Fachbegriff Lauterung zusammengefasst. Данное издание не является оригинальным....
ISBN: 978-6-1304-7179-8
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Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Die Toilette ist eine sanitare Vorrichtung zur Aufnahme von Korperausscheidungen. Hinweisschilder an Toiletten tragen oft die Aufschrift „00“. Das ergab sich, weil in Hotels im 19. Jahrhundert diese Raume in einer Etage, und zwar ublicherweise in der Nahe des Aufzugs oder des Treppenhauses lagen. Da dort ebenfalls die Nummerierung der Zimmer begann, trugen die Toilettenraume die Zimmernummer Null bzw. 0. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
ISBN: 978-6-1305-1846-2
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Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Die Firma Abus Kransysteme GmbH ist ein deutscher Hersteller von Hallenkranen, der Firmensitz befindet sich in Gummersbach. Abus wurde 1963 von Werner Buhne gegrundet und zahlt heute zu den europaweit fuhrenden Herstellern von Hallenkranen. Das Abus-Programm umfasst Transportsysteme fur den Lastbereich von 80 kg bis 100 Tonnen. Pro Jahr werden etwa 6.000 Kransysteme und 14.000 Hebesysteme hergestellt. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
ISBN: 978-6-1304-0513-7
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Lambert M. Surhone, Miriam T. Timpledon, Susan F. Marseken
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Das Maschinenelement Zahnrad ist ein Rad mit uber den Umfang gleichmassig verteilten Zahnen. Es wird vorwiegend zur Ubertragung zwischen zwei Drehungen (Paarung zweier Zahnrader) oder einer Drehung und einer geradlinigen Bewegung (Paarung eines Zahnrades mit einer Zahnstange) gebraucht. Zahnrad-Paarungen sind formschlussig, das heisst ohne Schlupf. Soll das Ubersetzungsverhaltnis auch im Kleinen konstant sein, das heisst vom Eingriff des vorherigen bis zum Eingriff des nachfolgenden Zahns in die Lucken des Gegenrades, so ist das erste Verzahnungsgesetz zu beachten. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по...
ISBN: 978-6-1305-3879-8
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