This new edition offers integrated, theoretically thorough treatment of structural control and monitoring of wind turbines is edited by an internationally renowned expert. Updated and new chapters cover all aspects of wind turbine systems at various scales.

A systematic, scientific review of the use of AI for energy system management, focusing on clean generation. Edited by a team of senior scientists with industry experience, systematically covering methods, applications including forecasting and maintenance, and economic aspects.

The teaching of soft skills is crucial for preparing engineering students to succeed in their future careers. These skills encompass effective communication, teamwork, leadership, adaptability, problem-solving, and emotional intelligence. This book is a roadmap for unlocking and progressing in these highly demanded competencies.

Bridging the theoretical and practical divide to offer a nuanced perspective on contemporary challenges, this co-authored book focuses on permanent magnet actuators, from established theories to innovative methodologies, novel approaches, special design features, and real-world case studies.

The new work on vehicle-to-grid technology and its role in power grids. Chapters cover the state of adoption, lessons learned, interactions with grids and utilities, charging and V2G technologies, market landscape as well as legislative and regulatory effects.

The comprehensive reference of deploying clean energy in the boom region of Vietnam and SE Asia; covering potentials, forecasting, grid connection and smart grid technology, economical and social aspects, and circular economy. Edited by a team from industry and universities.

This edited book presents novel perspectives, approaches and methodologies as well as ethical and legal considerations, and future perspectives in the field of generative AI.

There is a growing demand for more accurate simulation techniques to address the thermomechanical challenges faced in advanced electronic packaging. This book compiles the latest advancements in thermomechanical simulation methodologies, empowering readers with the knowledge to help optimize electronic package designs.

This edited book explores the convergence of artificial intelligence (AI) and the internet of things (IoT) technologies in the context of modern transportation systems. It covers the challenges, technologies, applications, and future trends of AIoT in realizing intelligent transportation.

This book introduces innovative advances in networking technologies. Written in a tutorial style, it will benefit a broad research audience in networking, communication, computer science, and security. The authors focus on cyber security for all advanced network concepts and technologies and have included useful case studies.

The aim of this book is to improve the readiness of the built environment and construction industries towards the adoption of Blockchain, Distributed Ledger Technologies and smart contracts, and to contribute to the de-risking of their implementations within this sector.

The up-to-date reference on energy management of microgrids, using different algorithms and technologies for integrating microgrids with distributed wind, PV, batteries and EV. Wind energy is particularly considered as key pillar of future power systems.

Key reading on optimization algorithms for the design of smart grids. After summarizing smart grid concepts and strategies, chapters cover demand response, power quality parameters, frequency and voltage control, fault identification and protection, as well as smart communication.

This reference on smart grids for residential areas covers algorithms for sizing, economic dispatch, assessment of configuration of renewable energy systems, EV, optimization and sizing of hybrid systems for residential areas, as well as 100% green hybrid energy systems.

The concise work on methods and algorithms for simulation of circuits in power electronics, vital for clean generation, distribution, and use of power in machines and EV. It enables readers to apply simulation to circuitry in their research activities.

In this monograph, the authors present solutions to the control problem of complex nonlinear dynamical systems for a wide range of applications including industrial robotic systems, space robotics, autonomous vehicles, cranes and pendulums, mechatronics, power electronics, and biological and financial systems.

Aimed at smart city researchers and engineers, city planners, and stakeholders in urban communities and local governments, this book covers technology advances, innovative concepts, solutions and applications in smart cities, both from an engineering and social aspects towards inclusive innovation and sustainability.

Authored by two experts in the technological and commercial development of electric vehicles, this book traces EV technology from its beginnings through the current state-of-the-art and onwards to future possibilities.

Presenting the theory of fixed and adaptive urban signal setting design at both the single junction and network levels, this book explores advances in intelligent transportation systems, the impact of connected and cooperative vehicles on traffic analysis and control, and strategies for optimising safety, fuel consumption and emissions.

Grid monitoring is vital for flexibility and renewable energy integration. The new edition of this successful work on synchrophasor technology covers the recent developments including cyber-security, cyber-physical attack detection, and ancillary services.

This book concerns the future of electromagnetic technology. Internationally well-known contributors have provided deep technical reviews of the direction of new research in electromagnetics. They discuss how the technology is progressing and then predict developments and outcomes over the coming decades with technical justifications.

This book covers the different data types that can be collected and used for monitoring, analyzing and improving road safety. It provides a wide and up-to-date perspective on relevant safety data, broadening the horizons for the road safety experts and promoting a more knowledge-based approach to their work.

A new edition of this classic book on the topic of converter and device reliability, taking account of the crucial role of power electronics with renewable generation and variable loads. Besides a thorough update, new application-oriented content has been added.

Flexible alternate current transmission systems offer increased controllability and reliability in power systems through novel power electronic components. High voltage direct current transmission offers efficient electricity transport over long distances. This reference covers the combination of these two technologies.

This book covers optimised federated learning algorithms and new communication protocols and resource allocation methodologies, to maximize energy savings while retaining respectable model accuracy, and develop long-lasting and scalable IoT solutions that can function independently with dependency on an external cloud infrastructures.

Industry 5.0 refers to the next phase of industrial revolution, which is characterized by the integration of advanced technologies like AI, Internet of Things, robotics, and big data analytics, with human skills and creativity. This book covers the material, digital and human infrastructure requirements for Industry 5.0.

A comprehensive overview of advanced metaverse wireless communication systems including theoretical analysis, technology enablers, novel system architecture design, new implementation methodologies, emerging application scenarios, experimental frameworks, as well as reliability, security, and privacy.

A systematic treatise on multiphase permanent magnet machines and their control techniques. Coverage includes their superior attributes, their various applications including electric transport, and offers an overview of multiphase machines and control techniques compared to various electrical machine technologies.

Ammonia is a vector for a future cleaner energy system. It can be used in combustion devices for electricity generation and as fuel for transport. This work covers technology and measurements for combustion devices for power generation and propulsion.

A systematic overview of hydrogen energy technologies: production, storage, transport and utilization; covering physical, chemical, electrochemical and materials related aspects, as well as environmental considerations. The work also addresses efficiencies, and key types of fuel cells.

The comprehensive and systematic overview of system level microgrid control with examples and case studies; covering dynamic modelling, frequency and voltage regulation, autonomous microgrids, risk-averse transactive energy management, and laboratory validation, and case studies.

This reference book brings together a team of world class engineers from research, clinical and industry settings to explore the underlying mechanisms of electrical stimulation for applications including motor neurorehabilitation, neurogenic bowel, bladder, sexual function, respiratory function, mobility and limb function.

This book covers all areas of high-power electromagnetics (HPEM), which includes nuclear electromagnetic pulse, intention EMI (IEMI) and other transient EM environments including lightning, power system transients and medical applications.

Electrification of transport technology can help ensure a continued transition away from fossil fuels and toward renewable energy. This book looks at the current trend of electrification in transportation systems on land and at sea.

This co-authored book explores the many challenges arising from real-time and autonomous decision-making for 6G by covering crucial advanced signal control and real-time decision-making methods for UAV- and RIS-assisted 6G wireless communications including the serious constraints in real-time optimisation problems.

Power line communications enable electric power system components to use the very power lines for communication about voltage, frequency, generation and loads. This work covers the technology systematically. This second edition offers updates and new content on noise types, mitigation, and properties of power line channels.

The new edition of this systematic reference about clean power from tides and waves. Chapters cover a wider range of wave and tidal devices, onshore AC sub-stations, practicability and deploy-ability, and lessons from offshore wind and other maritime industries.

A concise overview of key developments to tackle unwanted effects in inductive components and to reduce device volumes. Compiled by specialists, from industry and academia, the focus is on practical advice and application examples to help readers solve their problems.

This book will focus on the contributing technologies and use cases for the Metaverse including engineering techniques, deployment environments and integrated platforms for designing and developing metaverse applications.

This book explores how federated learning can solve multimedia data processing and security challenges in Industry 5.0, introduces new research paradigms for the security and privacy preservation of multimedia data, and explores the integration of federated learning with other disruptive technologies.

As the second volume on multidimensional radar imaging, this book recalls the work presented within the first book and outlines the research and technology advancements that have occurred in the last 4-5 years. This includes details from the NATO SET-250 RTG on "Multidimensional Radar Imaging" performance metrics.

This book provides an overview of ICT-based intelligent road transport systems with an emphasis on recent evaluation methods and results of ITS development and deployment. The new edition contains up-to-date results, including the impact assessment of cooperative and automated driving.

This edited book covers current and emerging frameworks, architectures, and solutions for secure big data analytics for the healthcare industry. The book covers the challenges of deploying security-based healthcare analytics for massive BDA applications, through smart optimized network communication infrastructures and AI-driven models.

This book is concerned with radar array design exploiting tools from modern optimization theory. Each chapter is written by renowned researchers in radar array design/optimization theory. The book shows the potential benefits in radar beampattern achievable using modern optimization theory.

This book will review cutting edge technologies and advanced research, which can realize and evaluate the effectiveness and advantages of SplitFed learning for advancing and securing IoTs.

This book explores the efficacy of cybersecurity and anti-phishing training and awareness programs, as well as internal messaging and discusses mitigation strategies.

A new edition in two volumes of the systematic and comprehensive reference on metaheuristic methods for power systems with distributed renewables, which offers MATLAB-based software, with revised and new chapters.

A new edition in two volumes of the systematic and comprehensive reference on metaheuristic methods for power systems with distributed renewables, which offers MATLAB-based software, with revised and new chapters.

This comprehensive work covers technologies enabling the smart grid: power electronics, simulation and control, protection, energy management, and use of AI. Also discussed are smart grid communication, technologies for fault detection and monitoring, PV integration and EV charging.

As manufacturing organizations grapple with the imperative to foster sustainability, environmental, social, and governance (ESG) principles can be used as a guiding framework. This book seeks to explore the intersection of ESG and manufacturing technology.

5G is facing serious challenges in its roadmap to massive machine type communications, ultra-reliable low latency and enhanced mobile broadband. This book discusses the 5G challenges and whether 6G will be an evolution or a revolution to fully support the age of machines, mmWave communications, and the new uses of the iPhone.

This work supports the goal of achieving affordable and clean energy, with a focus on low income and remote communities. Chapters cover deployment of solar systems, small wind turbines, run-of-river hydropower, storage, water desalination, and case studies.

This comprehensive reference on the urban energy transition covers the technologies available for upgrading urban power grids, which will enable them to work with distributed renewable power and varying loads.

The hands-on review of islanding phenomena in electricity grids. Chapters cover definitions and principles of grid types and islanding, causes of formation, operation and stability, network restoration, detection of islanding, grid and plant protection, modelling and simulation, and practical examples.

This edited book covers the field of quantum computing and machine learning for medical data processing. Topics such as security, transparency, data integrity, big data and applications in drug discovery, precision in diagnostics and precision medicine, are explored.

This book presents state-of-the art, high-level synthesis methodologies for hardware security and trust, including IP protection through synthesis-based watermarking and structural obfuscation.

This edited book presents various cyber security risks and vulnerability models of different healthcare systems and discusses how the application of artificial intelligence and machine learning-based solutions may help to address cyberattacks in these emerging systems.

This book provides guidance on approaches to the modelling and simulation of energy systems in the built environment. The aim is to equip readers with the understanding required to compose high integrity models, commission realistic simulations, and interpret predictions to assess life cycle performance and ensure operational resilience.

The new edition of this reference on fuzzy logic for energy systems offers a review of fuzzy logic, and examples in Matlab-Simulink. The new edition covers new topics like shading in PV, and day-ahead estimation of sun and wind data.

Starting with the theory and fundamentals behind antenna booster design and matching networks, the authors show readers how to put theory into practice to design antenna systems on wireless platforms and multiband design for wireless device operations with optimized matching networks either passive or active.

Using PV modules on top of agricultural fields offers a twofold advantage; generating clean energy and shielding crops. This systematic and comprehensive book provides an overview of agrivoltaics, covering technology as well as social, ecological, economic and regulatory aspects.

This structured monograph conveys the use of AI in managing emerging power systems with distributed renewables. Coverage includes electric machine fault diagnosis, reliability control, active distribution, and management of energy systems. Numerous examples help readers understand the principles.

This concise overview covers decentralised self-organising units in smart grids. These will help keep future smart grids operational in the face of numbers of distributed intermittent generators and loads overwhelming traditional IT. Applications include economic dispatch, voltage control, and quality monitoring.

The systematically updated edition of this reference on integrating renewable power plants with the grid. Covering new developments on ancillary services from renewables, wind power control and forecasting, storage technologies, modelling, simulation and control, grid stability, and demand side management.

This book provides an overview of affective computing applications in healthcare using AI and IoT. This book covers modelling methods, frameworks, and algorithms used for human affect detection using biosignal/image processing methods.

This book on digital twins for 6G is intended to be both a tutorial of the important topics around DT and advanced wireless communications technologies, as well as an advanced overview of the state-of-the-art research in this interdisciplinary field.

From innovative solutions for securing IoT infrastructures against security attacks and privacy threats to advanced topics including responsible security intelligence, this comprehensive co-authored book offers a complete study of explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) for securing the internet of things (IoT).

Addressing the physical layer security challenges and proposing efficient and resilient physical layer security solutions for beyond 5G networks leading to 6G, this book will help readers better understand the expectations of 6G's physical layer security in supporting a range of communications and sensing technologies.

Starting with an overview of blockchain technology and consensus mechanisms including basic concepts, network architecture and main components, the book then provides a review of advanced PoS-based consensus mechanisms and discusses important challenges including PoS consensus security and PoS performance and scalability issues.

The new, enhanced edition of this comprehensive classic; written by international top-level experts, the two stand-alone volumes cover converters, electric drives, and reliability in power electronics, hardware-in-the-loop, power electronics for grids, renewables, automotive, batteries, electric aircraft, and fault ride-through.

The new, enhanced edition of this comprehensive classic; written by international top-level experts, the two stand-alone volumes cover converters, electric drives, and reliability in power electronics, hardware-in-the-loop, power electronics for grids, renewables, automotive, batteries, electric aircraft, and fault ride-through.

The new edition of this established work on wireless power transfer. Updates include output characteristics of multi-hop systems, technologies, new experimental data, developments on regulation and standardization, WPT for dynamic EV charging, and far-field WPT.

Hydrogen has an important role to play in decarbonised energy systems, but it is vital to generate it without carbon emissions, for example, using sunlight and abundant sea water. This work covers techniques for generating hydrogen from seawater, their advantages and shortcomings.

The technique described in this book can be used to analyse all the mechanisms involved in the propagation of Electromagnetic Interference (EMI), avoiding the need to invoke the complexities of electromagnetic computation. The book is aimed at electrical and electronic circuit design engineers and EMI/EMC design consultants.

An account of the engineering history of extracting energy from our environment in sustainable ways, this book describes the status of energy usage, then reviews energy demands through history, covering science, engineering, and electricity, with graphical and schematic data presentation.

From pandemics to climate change, inequality and social injustice, cities are at the heart of the biggest challenges facing humanity. This book showcases how community-research partnerships and innovations are being implemented all over the world in cities to support the transition to a more sustainable society.

This comprehensive handbook written by a team of international experts discusses the key technical and scientific ideas that have propelled the field of weather radar forward. The book covers the five areas of weather radars: science, engineering, signal processing, electromagnetics, and applications.

This comprehensive handbook written by a team of international experts discusses the key technical and scientific ideas that have propelled the field of weather radar forward. The book covers the five areas of weather radars: science, engineering, signal processing, electromagnetics, and applications.

This comprehensive handbook written by a team of international experts discusses the key technical and scientific ideas that have propelled the field of weather radar forward. The book covers the five areas of weather radars: science, engineering, signal processing, electromagnetics, and applications.

This book brings together contributions from leading researchers who are engaged in the research and development of next generation cognitive abilities in radar engineering. It features recent advances in the theory and applications of advanced Cognitive radar (CR) tools as well as examining emerging challenges.

Microwave power transmission has a range of promising applications, but in order to make it a reality, the problem of adequate and correct beamforming has to be solved. This book explores the theory behind developing different beamforming techniques that might be used in microwave power transmission.

Covering the principles, enabling technologies and business models behind mobility-as-a-service (MaaS), this book provides a systematic and thorough overview of the field for researchers, consultants, industry professionals, transport operators and policy makers. Wide ranging case studies offer a variety of approaches and perspectives.

Transformers convert electric power from one voltage system to another. They are essential for electric power systems. This book covers key developments in high voltage transformer technology that are critical to adapting power systems to rising shares of renewables.

Wind energy is a pillar of the emerging clean energy system. This volume, written by industry experts, is the complete reference on how to configure efficient wind turbine systems, focusing on the generator, converter, their control, automation and maintenance.

This book presents interdisciplinary research in the application lifecycle management for IoT in edge and cloud computing from a distributed system perspective, including both cyber and physical aspects. The authors bring together four paradigms: cloud and edge computing, cyber physical systems, IoT and big data for future ICT systems.

Size reduction in mesoscopic and nano-scoping electronic and plasmonic devices makes classical quantum mechanics (QM) and electrodynamics (QED) in electronics inevitable. Electronics engineers are unfamiliar with the mathematical apparatus in QM and QED, which can be formidably abstract. This book explains QM and QED to engineers.

Compiled by two editors with substantial experience in developing algorithms to numerically solve integral equations in the case of discretized real-life structures, this book explains the main available approaches for the numerical solution of surface integral equations for analysing real-world multi-scale electromagnetic problems.

This text is written for the advanced student or researcher in the fields of antenna design, optical device design and in advanced electromagnetics, to aid better understanding of electromagnetic resonance phenomena and their applications.

This book comprehensively covers the recently-developed AI techniques for solving condition monitoring and fault detection issues in EV electrical conversion systems. Chapters systematically address condition monitoring and fault detection in EV motors and inverters, with illustrative case studies.

This book offers an overview of the design, modeling, simulation and control of electric vehicle components and charging technologies, from the essentials of EV power electronics and battery management systems, to fault tolerance, charging systems and power quality control, wireless power transfer, and grid integration.

The authors present a comprehensive review of fog computing systems including energy efficiency and quality of service issues, reliability and fault tolerance, load balancing, and scheduling, utilizing mobile edge computing, internet of things, resource estimation and virtualization in fog computing environments for smart applications.

This edited book discusses the technical considerations, potential opportunities and critical challenges of AI and blockchain in telehealth systems and presents case studies and critical lessons to consider when designing future AI and blockchain-based telehealth systems which have privacy and security in mind.

CMOS technologies and their ongoing downscaling trend have opened an avenue to developing integrated systems for life sciences. This book explores the theoretical and practical aspects of CMOS biosensors and discusses the fundamentals of biological applications and microfabrication.

This book focuses on the potential of 6G to further expedite the achievement of net-zero. The authors cover the latest research efforts made in utilising 6G technology to solve real societal problems and to thought provoke researchers and scientists in proposing innovative ideas on how 6G can help with the fight against climate change.

Analysing and conveying the interactions of wind turbines with aviation radar and radio systems, this much-needed book provides knowledge about aviation systems to facilitate analysis of the impact of turbines, existing and future technologies for mitigation, and general analytical techniques.

This book covers cybersecurity, privacy and control methods and technologies integrated with blockchain and multimedia AI, including encryption and watermarking techniques, wearable-based IoT security methods, multimedia data forensics and video monitoring.

This edited book explores new and emerging technologies in the field of medical image processing using deep learning models, neural networks and machine learning architectures. Multimodal medical imaging and optimisation techniques are discussed in relation to the advances, challenges and benefits of computer-aided diagnoses.

The Mathematical Quantum Physics for Engineers and Technologists volumes aim to explain the mathematical foundation of QP and QED to engineers using an engineer's mindset as the starting point, and following a new line of thinking based on clarity and obviousness.

This book presents cutting-edge research on the use of AI for biometrics and cybersecurity including Machine and Deep Learning architectures, emerging applications and ethical and legal concerns.

The comprehensive resource on measuring and improving the strength of power systems with distributed generation and loads. Covering the latest evaluation methods, best practice, case studies, and applications, the book enables researchers to advance the movement towards stable clean power systems.

Intelligent multimedia processing and computer vision have seen an upsurge in interest over the last few years. This book reviews cutting edge research in the areas of intelligent multimedia processing and computer vision techniques and applications with a particular emphasis on interdisciplinary approaches and novel solutions.

This book focuses on Explainable AI (XAI) concepts, tools, frameworks, techniques and applications. It introduces knowledge graphs (KG) to support the need for trust and transparency into the functioning of AI systems, and shows how Intelligent applications can be used to greater effect in finance and healthcare.

This edited book discusses the challenges in handling medical data to provide effective healthcare services in real-time and outlines the approaches and the impact of, AI, IOT, cloud, big data, and blockchain technologies for building intelligent Healthcare 4.0 systems.

Medical Imaging Informatics is an edited book that discusses how medical images can be processed using machine learning techniques and big data analysis methods. These tools help physicians to gain a full overview of a patient's data, which in turn assists with diagnosis, prognosis or intervention.

Harvesting biomechanical energy is a viable solution for sustainably-powering wearable electronics for continuous medical health monitoring, remote sensing, and motion tracking. This book discusses vibration-based piezoelectric, electromagnetic and hybrid energy harvesters, and addresses their modelling, fabrication and characterization.

This concise review covers the recent advances in development of environmentally friendly high voltage switching equipment, addressing both AC and DC interruption in modern power networks. Applications of DC at different voltage levels for various purposes are covered.

Personal knowledge graphs (PKGs) support the development of innovative digitalized personalized applications, which keep users updated, help them manage their day-to-day activities and facilitate informed decisions. This book systematically explores the global advanced research around PKGs from methodologies to tools and applications.

This edited book reviews the intertwining disciplines of nature-inspired optimization algorithms and bio-inspired soft-computing for real world applications, with the interaction between metaheuristics with complex systems. The authors present methods and techniques in IoT, image processing, smart manufacturing and healthcare.

This book introduces the fundamentals of deep learning for biomedical image analysis for applications including ophthalmology, cancer detection and heart disease. The book discusses multimedia data analysis algorithms and the principles of feature selection, optimisation and analysis.

This book is devoted to target detection in a class of radar systems referred to as passive multistatic radar. It is concerned with applications of new results in detection theory which improve performance of passive radar systems.

This book concerns sensor data fusion, target tracking, and state estimation in distributed sensor system applications by means of centralized or decentralized fusion methods. This includes multi sensor fusion, target tracking, distributed Kalman Filter, and track-to-track fusion.

This edited book covers advances, trends and future opportunities in the security framework of social media-computing. The authors focus on how to protect social media platforms, and present methods for making social media computing more reliable and effective to achieve trusted IoT-based social computing with Blockchain technology.

A comprehensive and critical view on electrode processing and manufacturing for lithium-ion batteries; this book outlines the fabrication process from powder to cell formation, covers electrode processing and cell fabrication, technologies, processing cost, and scaling up from lab to pilot scale.

The book proposes solutions to revamp traditional security architecture by addressing critical security challenges in commercialized 5G and envisioned 6G wireless communication systems. New insights into real-world scenarios for the deployment, applications and management of robust, secure, and efficient security schemes are discussed.

Offering a comprehensive and structured overview of deploying energy storage for renewables in urban areas, this book covers grid resilience, EV usage and charging infrastructure, standards and grid codes, monitoring and power quality, hosting capacity, intelligent electricity markets, and integrated operation.

An authoritative overview of the technology for tidal energy generation as reliable clean power source, this book presents the principles, conversion drivetrain design options, control, resilience and fault-tolerant control, monitoring as well as the specific issue of biofouling.

A concise work on photovoltaics research, development and operation in desert regions to tap their enormous solar potential. Chapters cover energy yield under desert conditions, cells and bifacial modules, soiling, a case study from Australia, conclusions and future outlooks.

Design thinking represents a novel methodology for developing projects. Instead of focusing on the project itself, the main driver is the end user. The book takes the trainee engineer through the various stages of design thinking and provides case studies and tools for them to use to practice.

This book covers computer-integrated equipment manufacturing, which allows high levels of adaptability and rapid equipment design changes to enable smart manufacturing processes. Benefits of the integration of lean manufacturing, smart sensors, 5G technology, IoTs, virtual reality, 3D printing, robotics and automation, are discussed.

Written by an international team of experts from a wide range of research areas, this book highlights the emerging role of cognitive sensors in a growing number of real time applications including smart health, smart cities, smart transportation, smart energy and smart agriculture.

This book covers important advances in the area of human-robot collaboration, aiming at future industrial applications. It will be useful to advanced students, researchers, engineers and entrepreneurs working on human-robot collaboration research and technologies, and related fields.

This book provides an exhaustive overview of techniques, challenges and applications that are enabled when a passive radar is operated from a moving platform.

This 2nd edition is an updated, revised and expanded version of the original 2007 text. The figures are now colour and new material has been added to address recent advances in the field. The authors are well known in the antenna measurement world and this remains a unique book covering planar near-field measurements.

Power converters are vital for clean power, and so is their control. This book covers recent advances in converter control, comparing control methods for different converters. Chapters present control of DC-DC and AC-DC converters, for example using sliding mode and robust control.

This book provides an overview of multimedia technologies used in finance and banking, including ML and DL techniques for financial data analysis, fraud and cyber operation countermeasures, concrete applications of NPR for financial data, self-supervised, unsupervised & semi-supervised learning methods and real-world case studies.

Using machine and deep learning techniques the authors introduce pre-processing methods applied to satellite images to identify land cover features, detect object, classify crops, recognize targets, and monitor and support earth resources. Readers will need a basic understanding of computing, remote sensing and image interpretation.

Health informatics uses information technology to organise and analyse health data to improve healthcare outcomes. This book covers current and future applications of health informatics topics including robotics, sensing, and blockchain and discusses electronic access (and connectivity) to medical records for patients and clinicians.

This book presents the state-of-the art in hardware security of digital signal processing (DSP) and machine learning coprocessors using physical biometrics and molecular signature biometrics, for an audience of academic researchers, industry researchers and developers, and advanced students with an interest in the field.

This work conveys the use of time synchronized measurements of voltages or currents for planning and operation of electricity grids. Such so-called synchrophasors are key to managing complex grids with rising shares of intermittent renewables and varying loads from EV.

This book discusses the applications of distributed ledger technology in healthcare environments such as e-healthcare records and data security, health insurance management and fraud detection, pharmaceutical supply chain management and drug traceability, and IoT enabled patient monitoring.

This book concentrates on sensing and measurement technologies for rehabilitation applications. The book looks at motion sensing technologies, human motion and exogames and healthcare applications including speech, respiration, and recovery from stroke or accident.

This edited book focuses on the applications of machine learning in the healthcare sector, both at the macro-level for guiding policy decisions, and at the granular level, showing how machine learning techniques can be applied to help individual patients.

The book focuses on various aspects of EM radiation from a variety of perspectives. The goal is to provide the reader with a conceptual basis for understanding EM radiation and to introduce some associated computational tools for obtaining relevant quantitative results relating to its distribution.

This book discusses recent advances in the application of deep learning techniques to electromagnetic theory and engineering. The contents represent pioneer applications of deep learning techniques to electromagnetic engineering, where physical principles described by the Maxwell's equations dominate.

The hands-on reference of digital technology for using PV systems, especially in remote or harsh environments. Topics include transformers, micro-inverter, distribution automation, PV powered water pumping, power point and solar tracking, soiling and cleaning, IoT based PV module cooling, storage and energy management.

Optimisation of electric drives for machines and EV requires considering the components as a whole. Integrated systems can be smaller, have greater flexibility, lower cost and higher power density. This book presents recent research and trends in integrated electrical motor drive technology.

This book discusses digital twin technologies for applications in the healthcare system. The book also addresses the various research perspectives and challenges in implementation of digital twin technology in terms of data analysis, cloud management and data privacy issues.

Understanding lightning is of importance due to the increase in extreme weather events. The 2nd edition of this classic work has been thoroughly updated and revised, with new content on EM radiation at various wavelengths. Volume 1 treats electrodynamics, whilst volume 2 addresses effects and modelling.

Understanding lightning is of importance due to the increase in extreme weather events. The 2nd edition of this classic work has been thoroughly updated and revised, with new content on EM radiation at various wavelengths. Volume 1 treats electrodynamics, whilst volume 2 addresses effects and modelling.

This book covers physical layer security (PHY) for wireless sensing and radio environment concepts along with the related security implications in terms of eavesdropping, disruption, manipulation and, in general, the exploitation of wireless sensing by unauthorised users.

In this edited book, the authors present the challenges, technologies, applications and future trends of the artificial intelligence-enabled internet of things (AIoT) in realizing smart and intelligent environments.

The two volumes of this reference book cover power electronics for drives and energy systems for electrified transport and the development of the power grid. Volume 1 covers converters and control for drives, while Volume 2 addresses clean generation and power grids.

The two volumes of this reference book cover power electronics for drives and energy systems for electrified transport and the development of the power grid. Volume 1 covers converters and control for drives, while Volume 2 addresses clean generation and power grids.

This book provides an advanced introduction to inertial data processing along with design architectures and algorithms used to aid inertial navigation systems. The emphasis is on the high-end sensors and systems used in aerospace applications, but material is also included that provides an overview of low-cost sensor data processing.

This book explores the principles of analysing maritime-transportation related practical problems using data-driven models, with a particular focus on machine learning. Coverage includes data-enabled methodologies, technologies, applications and case studies.

This book offers a concise overview on storing electric energy in magnetic fields of superconducting coils, a technology that avoids the need for lithium for batteries. The book covers principles, control, use of SMES for power quality and stability, use with AI, and cybersecurity.

n-type solar cells are less prone to defects and degradation compared to p-type solar cells. This makes n-type solar cells more effective, but manufacturing challenges remain. This reference conveys the state of research and development for n-type solar cells.

This edited book gives insights into the deployment, application, management, and benefits of explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) in medical decision support systems (MDSS). The book discusses XAI-based analytics for patient-specific MDSS as well as related security and privacy issues.

From architectures to specific use-case-oriented communication design, key technologies, management mechanisms and security, this book offers a broad overview of the latest research and advances in non-geostationary satellite orbit (NGSO) communications systems.

Wind energy is a pillar of the emerging clean energy system. This volume, written by industry experts, is the complete reference on how to configure efficient wind turbine systems, focusing on the components in the nacelle and the drive train.

This book covers challenges and solutions of autonomic computing trustworthiness from methods and techniques to achieve consistent and reliable system self-management. This is an ideal tutorial guide for independent study with simple and well documented diagrams to explain techniques and processes.

This edited book covers novel techniques and solutions that provide medical information processing and security for smart healthcare applications. It covers the recent trends in the field of medical information processing and focuses on new security approaches and privacy solutions for smart healthcare applications.

Thanks to advances in sensing and computer vision technologies, robots can be found today in healthcare, medicine and the industry. Topics covered in this edited book include various types of sensors used in robotics, sensing schemes, sensing technologies and their applications including robotics, prosthetics, wearables and healthcare.

This book provides an overview of some advanced techniques and technologies developed for polarimetric radars. It covers how the systems are designed to meet challenging performance requirements and also covers some of the most challenging application fields.

The use of ICT and ITS (intelligent transport systems) have supported the developments of more rapid, more reliable and more precisely timed strategies for freight transport. This book reviews recent developments in the field of ITS for freight logistics.

Utility-scale Li-ion batteries are poised to play key roles for the clean energy system, but their failure has severe effects. AI can help with their monitoring and management. This work covers machine learning, neural networks, and deep learning, for battery modeling.

The 2nd edition of the reference on protection of electrical power systems using computer-based methods. It covers the algorithms underlying protection techniques. The new edition offers a revision and additional material including comparison between algorithms, system identification, and networks with renewables.

This book provides a broad and balanced span of information, covering both fundamentals and applications across academic and industrial state-of-the-art activities on assembly, joining and repair of high-performance structures made from fibre-reinforced polymer composites.

This book provides an up-to-date account of the status of research and implementation of automotive radars. The book covers fundamental, novel and essential technologies, such as MIMO, waveform design, and interference mitigation. The book includes chapters on exterior and interior uses of radar technology.

Principles of Modern Radar: Basic Principles is a comprehensive text for courses in radar systems and technology, a professional training textbook for formal in-house courses and for new hires; a reference for ongoing study following a radar short course and a self-study and professional reference book.

This book outlines the role of the near-field to far-field (NF-FF) transformations in the framework of EM measurements, their development and the current state of art. The classical NF-FF transformation techniques (without and with probe compensation) are summarized.

Microgrids use ICT to deliver energy, but they can be open to cyber-attacks. This reference provides an up-to-date framework for resilient control and protection of microgrids. It investigates cyber-attacks on smart grids, discusses vulnerabilities and solutions.

This book shows how innovations in network analytics, IoTs and cloud computing platforms are being used to ingest, analyse and correlate a myriad of big data across the entire network stack in order to increase quality of service and quality of experience (QoS/QoE) and to improve network performance.

Reviewing key concepts in modern electronics, this book is a valuable resource for anyone needing an overview of the principles of electronic devices, or to review or update their knowledge in this field. Each chapter includes worked examples of theorems, and clear summaries of procedures, methods and equations.

Graph analytics are being empowered through novel analytics techniques to explore and pinpoint beneficial relationships between different entities such as organizations, people and transactions. This edited book presents the various aspects and importance of graph data science, with contributions by authors from academia and industry.

In this book, the authors articulate the challenges associated with streaming data and analytics, describe data analytics algorithms and approaches, present edge and fog computing concepts and technologies and show how streaming analytics can be accomplished in edge device clouds. They also delineate several industry use cases.

This expanded and updated second edition is an essential guide to technologies for operating modern flexible power systems. Additional content for this edition includes four new chapters on recent modelling, control and stability analysis of power electronic converters and electric vehicles.

This expanded and updated second edition covers advanced data-driven signal processing techniques for the analysis of power system data and transient oscillations in power grids. New content includes new architectures for smart grids and microgrids, multitemporal data fusion, deep learning, multichannel phasor measurement.

Blockchain technology for smart grids holds great promise for grid management and secure transactions. Written by an international team, this timely work introduces the concept of blockchain and covers applications in smart grids, including sensors, security and privacy, AI and the use of cryptocurrencies for energy transactions.

This edited book covers the challenges, opportunities, innovations, new concepts and emerging trends related to the use of machine learning, blockchain and big data analytics for IoTs. It is aimed at a broad audience of ICTs, Data science, machine learning and cybersecurity researchers.

This book is a systematic reference guide to state estimation for power systems. Written by experts from industry and academia, this book covers crucial technology for controlling power systems with distributed generation. Chapters cover several modelling methods as well real-time monitoring and practical lessons.

This book examines machine learning trends in predictive technology to solve real-time healthcare problems. By using real-time data inputs to build predictive models, this new technology can model disease progression, assist with interventions or predict patient outcomes.

This book covers the newest applications of bioelectromagnetics in the healthcare sector, providing valuable insights into the current and future possibilities of bioelectromagnetics in twelve cohesively structured chapters. Each chapter is written by experts in the field.

This 4th edition of the classic reference on electric fuses has been substantially updated. The contents, data, descriptions and illustrations have been revised, and new topics added including fuses for photovoltaic systems, battery storage and electric vehicles.

Starting with the concepts of data flow and concurrent programming, the authors cover the development of state machines, event programming and consumer producer systems using LabVIEW™ programming for instrumentation and automation systems. The book is a useful resource for undergraduate and graduate students and entry-level engineers.

This book explores how technology can facilitate social distancing in order to better manage pandemics and future outbreaks. The authors present key concepts, models and practical technology-based social distancing scenarios, and then enabling technologies including machine learning, AI, computer vision, blockchain and big data.

Covering new developments and state-of-the-art research in Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs), this edited book is a useful reference for ICT networking engineers, researchers, scientists, engineers, advanced students and lecturers in both academia and industry working on Wireless Communications and WMNs.

Written by a worldwide expert on nuclear energy, this book is a concise but thorough work on fusion-fission hybrid technology. Chapters review nuclear fission and fusion principles, then explore how to use surplus neutrons from fusion to assist with fission processes, and how to obtain the necessary deuterium and tritium.

Demand response (DR) describes controlled changes in the power consumption whose role is to better match the power demand with the supply. This reference, written by an international team of experts from academia and industry, covers the principles, implementation and applications of DR.

The book provides original analytical and computational methodologies for solving the EM interaction with modern metasurface structures. New sophisticated modeling methods and closed-form solutions are explored, thereby providing enablers for future developments of thin-layer-based technologies.

The book is a comprehensive discussion of the most advanced time-domain modeling methods and applications in electromagnetics and electrical engineering. It provides guidelines about why some choices must be made among the principal modeling approaches and then discusses numerical and analytical methods, and applications.

Exploring technologies supporting future autonomous road vehicles and systems, with a particular focus on vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs), this book is essential reading for researchers and advanced students from academia, industry and government working on the automation of road vehicles.

This edited book demonstrates the effective use of AI in healthcare via a number of innovative case studies. The editors show how increased use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) can improve the delivery of health care services in areas such as disease detection or medical decision support.

This edited book focuses on the hardware systems for gait analysis such as speed, pressure, or body angles as well as data visualisation and mathematical models for interpreting this data. The book is written by a range of international researchers from academia, industry, and clinical settings.

In this comprehensive reference, the authors present new and innovative control and estimation methods based on dynamical nonlinear and partial differential equation systems, which are used in solving control problems such as stability and robustness issues in robotics, mechatronics, and other engineering applications.

This edited book covers challenges, concepts, systems, architectures, technologies, and design characteristics of human-machine cooperation and interaction systems in smart manufacturing environments using state of the art technologies including artificial intelligence, 5G, IoTs, Blockchains, CPS, sensing, automation and robotics.

The rapid increase in globalization, human population, land prices and climate change are forcing cities to build upward. From architecture to engineering and city planning, this comprehensive reference covers the state-of-the-art of advanced research, innovations and future perspectives towards sustainable high-rise buildings.

Focusing on the management of security and the principles of security technologies as applied to transport systems, this book equips readers with an understanding of what management actions need to be taken and what sort of technologies are suitable to deploy in defending against cyberattacks. Multiple modes of transport are covered.

This is a concise book on cooling and thermal management of rotating electrical machines, such as drives, motors and generators. The work provides a sound insight into heat transfer and fluid flow so that readers can understand the thermal design of any machine.

This practical reference covers the key concepts and technologies of nano- and picogrids in conjunction with connected generation, EV charging, IoT and cloud computing, and power quality and protection issues. Case studies help provide a full understanding of the concepts explored.

This edited book looks at the role technology has played to monitor, map and fight the COVID-19 global pandemic. The vital role that intelligent advanced healthcare informatics has played during this crucial time are explored, as well as e-healthcare, telemedicine, and life support systems.

This edited book covers big data analysis methods of patient data gained via IoT-enabled monitoring systems. The information gathered can be processed to aid clinicians with diagnoses, prognoses and interventions. This book is a great reference to those using, designing, modelling and analysing intelligent healthcare services.

This book presents comprehensive coverage of new research into sea clutter characterisation and modelling, radar performance prediction and maritime target detection. The book also includes a summary of sea-clutter scattering characteristics and datasets provided that can be used for modelling.

This comprehensive resource conveniently combines advanced topics of electromagnetic theory, a high level of mathematical detail, and the well-established ubiquitous Method of Moments applied to the solution of practical wave-scattering and antenna problems formulated with surface, volume, and hybrid integral equations.

This comprehensive resource conveniently combines advanced topics of electromagnetic theory, a high level of mathematical detail, and the well-established ubiquitous Method of Moments applied to the solution of practical wave-scattering and antenna problems formulated with surface, volume, and hybrid integral equations.

The comprehensive reference on synchronous reluctance machines, which offer high power density at low cost and support the electrification in the transport sector. This book, written by top academic and industry experts, covers all topics required to design these machines.

This book explores the potential for combining recent advances from three fields - metamaterials, automated optimal design and 3D printing. The role of metamaterials in innovative device design is explored, and the development of 3D printing techniques for successfully fabricating new devices from these materials is examined.

Written by a range of researchers and practitioners in the field of IoT, data mining, and machine learning, this edited book provides a systemic review of trends, challenges and future directions of IoMT enabling technologies, such as machine learning, wireless communications, and network security.

The interdisciplinary nature of aviation cybersecurity and its wide-ranging impact requires contributions of expertise from multiple disciplines to collaborate in identifying ways forward. This book provides an understanding of the key technical, social and legal issues in aviation cybersecurity, and proposes innovative solutions.

The book provides a systematic introduction to the principles, state-of-the-art methods and applications of high frequency surface/sky wave radar and microwave marine radar, as well as an exploration of ongoing challenges in the field. It is a valuable resource for the radar and remote sensing communities.

This book focuses on the advances made in the topic of uncertainty quantification (UQ) and stochastic analysis for the design of electromagnetic devices, circuits and systems. It covers the recent explosion in surrogate modelling (metamodeling) techniques for numerically efficient UQ - an attractive, efficient, and popular approach.

Smart roads are road infrastructures with integrated structural materials, sensors, information centres, and energy systems. The goals are extending service life and performance, reducing safety risks, and improving service quality. This book brings together the latest research into technologies for novel and smart road infrastructures.

This book provides an overview of most aspects of electrical protections. The emphasis is on distribution systems, but protection of generation and transmission systems are also treated. For this 4th edition, new topics are added, such as protection of renewable power plants and transient stability analysis.

A concise and hands-on overview of medium voltage direct current (MVDC) technology for electric power grids, written by international experts with broad experience. The book covers fundamentals, converters, transformers and control for both stationary and mobile applications.

This book discusses electromagnetic waves and antennas used as diagnostic tools and therapeutic techniques for applications in cancer detection, stroke event detection, GI diagnostics, and cardiovascular risk predictions. It discusses electromagnetic devices, wireless implants, and in vitro and in vivo testing.

This comprehensive research reference summarises and presents the state-of-the-art methods for building ventilation design and control. Cutting-edge research achievements are introduced, including fast ventilation predictions, online monitoring and intelligent control, coupled simulation of urban simulation, and CFD-based adjoint design.

Inspired by MPEG-I and JPEG-PLENO standardization activities, this book is for readers who want to understand 3D representations and multi-camera video processing for novel immersive media applications. The authors address new challenges that arise beyond compression-only, such as depth acquisition and 3D rendering.

The energy efficiency paradigm is a major bottleneck for the development of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and Internet of Things (IoT) architectures and technologies. This edited book presents comprehensive coverage of energy harvesting sources and techniques that can be used for WSN and IoT systems.

This comprehensive textbook and reference provides a solid background in active sensing technology, for graduate students studying sensing systems and industry professionals wishing to expand or update their knowledge. This new edition has been comprehensively updated and expanded to include the latest radar technologies.

Shared mobility is gaining increasing attention in private and public sectors. Serving as a source of information on how best to shape shared vehicle systems of the future, this book contributes knowledge on key facets of shared mobility. It includes shared vehicle systems as well as shared automated vehicle systems.

This book covers the theory, modelling, design and implementations of Terahertz Dielectric Resonator Antenna technologies at microwave, terahertz or optical frequencies for future applications in wireless high-speed communication, wireless personal communication and sensor networks. Case studies with prototype models are included.

This edited book is the first to focus on metrology for current and future wireless communication technologies. It presents a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art measurement capabilities, testbeds and relevant R&D activities for 5G and emerging wireless technologies at a wide range of frequencies up to THz frequency bands.

Batteries are vital for storing renewable energy for stationary and mobile applications. Managing batteries requires knowledge of parameters such as charge and power output. State estimation estimates such parameters using measurement and modelling; a process conveyed in this book through experimental results and verification.

This book presents an overview of formulas to model transients in cable systems based on complete solutions of Maxwell's equations. It presents solutions to particularly model important high frequency phenomena. The impedance and admittance at a very low frequency for HVDC systems are investigated.

A structured research overview of techniques to manage microgrids with distributed energy resources (DERs). The focus is on coordination on both temporal and spatial scales. Chapters cover mathematical models, sizing and siting of DERs, robust optimisation, distributed coordinated control, and hardware-in-the-loop tests.

A systematic overview of the state of Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) technology, covering the key components and principal types of systems in the order of technical maturity: diabatic, adiabatic, and isothermal. Existing major systems and prototypes and economics are also addressed.

Small Wind and Hydrokinetic Turbines is a valuable summary for researchers involved with small wind turbines and SHKT development and deployment, both in academia and industry, for research on powering remote areas, as well as for advanced students and manufacturers of turbines.

This book provides an overview of the state of the art of radar systems to monitor drone activities. The book represents a must-have for all researchers working in this field as it establishes the state of the art and a benchmark for radar systems, detection, tracking and classification capabilities of this class of targets.

Electric Vehicles are part of the solution to both reducing urban air pollution and staving off climate change. This book covers the latest in charging technology, both stationary as well as wireless and in-motion. Grid integration, simulations, fast charging, and battery management are also addressed.

This book addresses practical approaches to managing batteries to ensure their reliability and longevity. Batteries are key to the energy transition, for both stationary and mobile applications, but their inner workings must be understood in order to ensure effective management.

The new, thoroughly revised edition of this classic book on offshore wind farm reliability. This work captures the latest developments in turbine and farm design, monitoring, safety and maintenance of a centre pillar of the emerging carbon free energy system.

Protection of low-voltage electrical and electronic equipment and systems from lightning strikes and other power surges is vital for computing, telecommunications, transportation, power grids, distributed energy and charging installations. This systematic treatise covers surge causes, risk assessment, and protective measures.

Written by a team of International experts, this edited book covers state-of-the-art research in the fields of computer vision and recognition systems from fundamental concepts to methodologies and technologies and real-world applications. The book will be useful for industry and academic researchers, scientists and engineers.

Developing capacitive sensors for use in life sciences requires thorough knowledge of both the intended biological applications and CMOS circuitry. This book addresses the principles, design, implementation and testing, and packaging of CMOS circuits for biomedical applications, plus relevant biological protocols.

This book presents a discussion of evolving digital technologies, such as smart phones, assisted living, and innovative digitally based services that are helping to deliver quality, cost-effective and widely accessible healthcare for the elderly.

Radar signals are one of the most challenging signals to process, because of the extreme signal to noise ratio and the dynamic range of the signals. This book gives readers an analysis of the various tools available to help better understand radar data, including coverage of new machine learning and statistical methods.

This concise reference on driving simulators conveys the technology behind simulator systems used to test driver assistance systems and automated vehicles, including electric vehicles. Coverage includes architecture, computer graphics, evaluation parameters and applied examples.

In this comprehensive edited book, the authors introduce edge caching from a theoretical perspective and discuss its role in saving bandwidth. Many physical layer models and techniques, including interference alignment and beamforming, are considered as well as recent advances in intelligent and proactive communication systems.

This book considers advanced real-time optimisation methods for 5G and beyond networks. The authors discuss the fundamentals, technologies, practical questions and challenges around real-time optimisation of 5G and beyond communications, providing insights into relevant theories, models and techniques.

In this edited book, the authors delineate the challenges of building accountability into the Internet of Things and solutions for delivering on this critical societal challenge. They explain how the accountability principle impacts IoT development by presenting empirical studies of accountability in action.

Metallization is a key step in manufacturing of efficient and reliable solar cells. Written by world-wide renowned experts, this work covers metallization technologies, before describing ongoing R&D activities for the most relevant silicon solar cells metallization technologies. Later chapters deal with aspects of solar cell modules.

A hands-on, case study-backed reference of control strategies, fault classification mechanisms, and reliability analysis methods for PV modules, power electronic converters, and grid-connected PV systems. Written by an international team of researchers with excellent backgrounds in academia and industry.

Wide Bandgap semiconductor devices offer higher efficiency, smaller size, less weight, and longer lifetime, with applications in power grid electronics and electromobility. This book describes the state of advanced packaging solutions for novel wide-band-gap semiconductors, specifically silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFETs and diodes.

A secured system for Healthcare 4.0 is vital to all stakeholders, including patients and caregivers. Using the new Blockchain system of trusted ledgers would help guarantee authenticity in the multi-access system that is Healthcare 4.0. This is the first comprehensive book on the topic, which includes coverage of privacy and security.

Photovoltaic electricity generation is a rapidly growing industry, and a key pillar of a decarbonized energy system. Lasers are used to dope the semiconductor layers in solar cells, and it is necessary to passivate these laser-induced structures to prevent premature charge carrier recombination. This book conveys passivation techniques.

This book shows how artificial intelligence, including neural networks and deep learning, can be applied to the processing of satellite data for Earth observation. The authors explain how to develop a set of libraries for the implementation of artificial intelligence that encompass different aspects of research.

Model predictive control (MPC) is a method for controlling a process while satisfying a set of constraints. The use of MPC for controlling power systems has been gaining traction in recent years. This work presents the use of MPC for distributed renewable power generation in microgrids.

Wind power is a pillar of low emission energy systems. Many recent advances have been achieved in multiple aspects of utility-scale wind power. This structured review conveys recent progress involving aerodynamics, layout, control, environmental concerns, forecasting and intermittency, combination with PV and offshore farms.

Deploying lithium-ion batteries depends on cost-effective materials with high energy and power density to facilitate lower weight. Si-based anode materials offer superior storage capacity. This reference presents current knowledge about the use of silicon and its derivates for Li-ion batteries.

Given the volumes of global ship traffic, solutions are needed to reduce waiting times, costs, energy consumption and emissions. This systematic reference on ICT solutions and digitalisation in the ports and shipping sector covers new and existing technologies, different types of digital systems, and offers examples and case studies.

Offering systematic analysis of the movements and behaviours of bicycles and their riders, this book examines data collection and evaluation approaches and then goes on to develop a framework for the theory and modelling of bike traffic. Coverage includes verification techniques, and a chapter on riding characteristics for context.

This comprehensive edited 2-volume handbook provides a unique platform for researchers, engineers, developers, educators and advanced students in the field of Big Data analytics. The first volume presents methodologies that support Big Data analytics, while the second volume offers a wide range of Big Data analytics applications.

This comprehensive edited 2-volume handbook provides a unique platform for researchers, engineers, developers, educators and advanced students in the field of Big Data analytics. The first volume presents methodologies that support Big Data analytics, while the second volume offers a wide range of Big Data analytics applications.

This edited book covers space robotics and autonomous systems (space RAS) from technologies to advances and applications including sensing and perception, mobility, manipulations, high-level autonomy, human-robot interaction, multi-modal interaction, modelling and simulation, and safety and trust.

This expanded, revised and updated new edition covers two major topics: low observables and low probability of intercept (LO and LPI) of Radars and data links, collectively sometimes called stealth. Each chapter includes examples, student exercises, references and counterpart appendices.

Aimed at researchers, engineers and scientists involved in the design and development of protocols and AI applications for wireless communication devices and networks, this edited book presents recent research and innovations in emerging AI methods and AI-powered mechanisms, and future perspectives in this field.

This book showcases state-of-the-art research and innovations in communications technologies for connected smart cities. The interfaces of various communication technologies are explored, alongside design-specific issues for the integration of different architectural components, and the interoperability of various solutions.

This book covers the use of fuzzy logic for power grids. Power systems need to accommodate intermittent renewables and changes in loads while ensuring high power quality. Fuzzy logic uses values between 0 and 1 rather than binary ones, offering advantages in adaptability for energy systems with renewables.

This book presents some of the emerging evolutionary algorithms (EAs) and their variants. It presents design cases of different EAs applied to popular design problems in antennas and wireless communications. The book contains both cases of single and multi-objective optimization.

Overhead power lines are the only way to electrify many communities. Massive experience has been gained with electrification projects that can be used world-wide. This work presents the technology of overhead power lines, including sag, insulators, conductors, lightning, and grounding.

Serving as a bridge between researchers in the computing domain and computing hardware designers, this book presents ReRAM techniques for distributed computing using IMC accelerators, ReRAM-based IMC architectures for machine learning (ML) and data-intensive applications, and strategies to map ML designs onto hardware accelerators.

This book treats the theory and practice of temperature measurement and control and important related topics such as energy management and air pollution.

This book covers state of the art topics including user modeling for e-learning systems and cloud, IOT, and mobile-based frameworks. It also considers security challenges and ethical conduct using Blockchain technology.

This book presents the main advanced signal processing techniques for fault detection and diagnosis in electromechanical systems. It focuses on presenting these advanced tools from time-frequency representation and time-scale analysis to demodulation techniques, including innovative and recently developed approaches.

Written by an international team of researchers, this book focuses on traffic information processing and signal control using emerging types of traffic data. Traffic Information and Control is a valuable resource for researchers and engineers working in the field of traffic information and control, and intelligent transport systems.

This book gathers the contributions from The 37th International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC-2019) held in October 2019 with highlights including high speed optical communications and feeder links, advanced digital payloads, broadband satellite communication architectures and applications.

Presenting a comprehensive view of blockchain technologies for network security from principles to core technologies and applications, this book offers unprecedented insights into recent advances and developments in these areas, and how they can make blockchain technologies associated with networks more secure and fit-for-purpose.

This edited book examines the application of blockchain technology and machine learning algorithms in various healthcare settings. This book covers the basic concepts of Blockchain and Machine Learning, and explores these issues with an eye on improving clinical outcomes and improving the patient's experience.

Edited by two recognised experts, this book provides a comprehensive overview of integrated optics, from modelling to fabrication, materials to integration platforms, and characterization techniques to applications. Chapters provide a broad context that addresses a range of current and potential future research and development trends.

Edited by two recognised experts, this book provides a comprehensive overview of integrated optics, from modelling to fabrication, materials to integration platforms, and characterization techniques to applications. Chapters provide a broad context that addresses a range of current and potential future research and development trends.

Written by an acknowledged expert in the field, this book focuses on approaches for designing secure hardware accelerators for digital signal processing and image processing. State-of-the art security and optimization algorithms are presented, and their roles in the design of secured hardware accelerators explored.

This book introduces advanced sparsity-driven models and methods and their applications in radar tasks such as detection, imaging and classification. It is based on research from the last decade, with a particular focus on applying compressed-sensing-based models and algorithms to solve practical problems in radar.

Novel deep learning models are achieving state-of-the-art accuracy in the area of radar target recognition, sometimes exceeding human-level performance. The book provides an introduction to the key aspects of machine learning that any radar engineer seeking to apply deep learning to radar signal processing ought to be aware of.

This book offers state of the art information about a novel range of applications for electromagnetic reverberation chambers. It is written by international experts in electromagnetic theory, electromagnetic compatibility (EMC), and antenna design and measurement. Each chapter addresses the general concepts and recent advances in its field.

This book covers radio wave propagation in the vehicular environment. It comes at a timely moment in the development of connected and automated vehicles, as they move from concept and system design studies to actual demonstrations and pilot projects.

This edited book brings together research from laboratories across the world, offering a global perspective on advances in prosthetic hand control. State-of-the-art control of prosthetics in laboratories and clinical spaces are presented and challenges discussed, and effects of user training on control of prosthetics are also highlighted.

Providing an overview of modelling and understanding lightning-related effects on complex power and telecommunications systems, this book explores both traditional transmission-line theory as well as the state-of-the art finite difference time-domain (FDTD) method.

This text describes several UWB surveillance radar prototypes, including Multiple Antenna Surveillance Radar, Multibeam Synthetic Radar, and Geoscience SAR. These illustrate the recent development of multi-mode capabilities and based on the results of these prototypes, a novel multi-mode, multi-channel radar is presented.

This book covers the fundamental principles of ESA antennas including basic design approaches and inherent design limitations. These insights will enable better appreciation of existing and planned ESA systems including their application to earth observation.

Technologies for traffic and travel information (TTI) have been evolving rapidly in recent years. This book focuses on an emerging generation of machine to machine communication, covering gathering information from automated sensors, digital processing and transmission, and its use by increasingly intelligent agents and vehicles.

Intelligent infrastructure has the potential to revolutionise traffic management, and to play a key role in the future automation of vehicles. The book systematically covers the key elements of intelligent infrastructure for an audience of researchers, practitioners and advanced students.

The energy crisis, growth in data traffic and increasing network complexity are driving the development of energy-efficient architectures, technologies and networks. This edited book presents research from theory to practice, plus methods and technologies for designing next generation green wireless communication networks.

This book addresses the major challenges in realizing Wireless Medical Sensor Networks in forthcoming IoT-based eHealth systems, including cost, energy efficiency, security and service quality. Addressing both design and implementation, the book provides a valuable overview for researchers, scientists and engineers on this evolving field.

This book provides a comprehensive review of emerging security threats and privacy protection issues, and the versatile state-of-the-art hardware-based security countermeasures proposed by the hardware security community. It serves as an advanced reference for researchers on current hardware security problems, challenges and solutions.

This book covers the use of SAR for maritime surveillance applications. It provides a comprehensive source of material on the subject, intended for SAR system engineers, private and public corporations, oceanographers, and remote-sensing researchers and end-users.

This comprehensive book is intended to be both a tutorial on flexible and cognitive radio access technologies for 5G and beyond and an advanced overview for technical professionals and managers in the communications industry, as well as researchers in academia and industry.

This edited book focuses on the nine pillars of technology supporting the transition to Industry 4.0 and smart manufacturing, incorporating the internet of things, cloud computing, autonomous and robotics systems, big data analytics, augmented reality, cyber security, simulation, system integration, and additive manufacturing.

This work, written by researchers with broad expertise and a successful publication record, provides a systematic overview of a modern power system with renewable energy. It summarizes renewable energy and storage, and describes the system working with technologies, including EV and cyber security.

This edited book explores novel concepts and cutting-edge research and developments towards designing fully automated advanced digital systems. Fostered by technological advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning, such systems potentially have a wide range of applications in robotics, human computing, sensing and networking.

This book presents state-of-the-art solutions for increasing the resilience of computing systems, both at single levels of abstraction and multi-layers. It is a valuable resource for researchers, postgraduate students and professional computer architects focusing on the dependability of computing systems.

5G and beyond technologies will bring much higher bandwidth and connectivity to billions of devices. In this book, the authors explore new approaches for exploiting challenging propagation channels and the development of efficient, cost-effective, scalable, and reliable antenna systems and solutions.

Information, mobile and networking applications foster information exchange and cooperation in the humanitarian and emergency management fields. This edited book covers developments, innovations, and research outcomes for the creation and deployment of ICT technologies and solutions supporting humanitarian services.

The transformation of the electricity sector is highly complex, including integration of large shares of renewables, storage, forecasting and modelling, biofuels, and electricity markets. This book provides clarity on the interlinked processes of the transformation towards 100 percent renewable power.

Power devices are key to modern power systems, performing functions such as inverting and changing voltages, buffering and switching. Following a device-centric approach, this book covers power electronic applications, semiconductor physics, materials science, application engineering, and key technologies such as MOSFET, IGBT and WBG.

This book describes a fast, accurate and flexible modelling methodology for PCBs. With its systematic approach to addressing tensorial analysis of networks (TAN) modelling methods, the book provides information and solutions to the designers and manufacturers of analogue, RF, digital and mixed signal electronic circuits and systems.

This book covers developments in radar micro-Doppler signatures and non-cooperative target recognition of moving targets including signatures of small drones and birds, automotive radar, passive radar for indoor applications, novel signal processing approaches using sparsity and deep learning, and Ultra Wide Band and FMCW radar chips.

The revised and updated second edition of this textbook teaches students to create computer codes used to engineer antennas, microwave circuits, and other critical technologies for wireless communications and other applications of electromagnetic fields and waves. Worked code examples are provided for MATLAB technical computing software.

This book provides researchers with a concise overview of the status of thin-film solar cell technology and characterization. Chapters describe material systems and their properties, and then provide an in-depth look at relevant characterization methods and the learning facilitated by each of these.

This book provides valuable insights for ICTs engineers, scientists, researchers, developers and practitioners who are involved in developing and implementing edge and cloud-based solutions ranging from sensors and actuators to cloud-based back-end systems.

This edited book explores the use of mobile technologies such as phones, drones, robots, Apps, and wearable monitoring devices for improving access to healthcare for socially disadvantaged populations in remote, rural or developing regions.

As electronics continue to become faster, smaller and more efficient, development and research around clocking signals and circuits has accelerated to keep pace. This book bridges the gap between the classical theory of clocking circuits and recent technological advances.

This book provides an overview of radar waveform synthesis obtained as the result of computational optimization processes and covers the most challenging application fields. The book balances a practical point of view with a rigorous mathematical approach corroborated with a wealth of numerical case studies and some real experiments.

This book presents cutting-edge research advances in the rapidly growing areas of nanoantennas and plasmonics as well as their related enabling technologies and applications.

This book provides an overview of key dielectric materials for capacitor technology. It covers preparation and characterization of state-of-the art dielectric materials including ceramics, polymers and polymer nanocomposites, for popular applications including energy storage, microwave communication and multi-layer ceramic capacitors.

This book addresses the emerging concepts, methodologies and applications of wide area monitoring, control and protection in power systems with integrated large scale renewables. Chapters cover monitoring, modelling and validation, control, and data mining with an emphasis on synchrophasor technology, and experiences with real power grids.

Based on scientific understanding and empirical evidence of how humans understand and interact with robotic and autonomous systems, this book reviews the concerns that have been raised around the deployment of AI and robots in human society, and the potential for disruption and harm.

Robotic systems have experienced exponential growth thanks to their incredible adaptability. Modern robots require an increasing level of autonomy, safety and reliability. This book addresses the challenges of increasing and ensuring reliability and safety of modern robotic and autonomous systems.

This book focuses on the challenges of rural electrification, particularly in poorer regions. It covers low voltage DC distribution system for various applications including charging of electric vehicles (EV).

This book presents a variety of technologies with applications in telemedicine, originating from the fields of biomedical sensors, wireless sensor networking, computer-aided diagnosis methods, signal and image processing and analysis, automation and control, virtual and augmented reality, multivariate analysis, and data acquisition devices.

This book focuses on recent advances and future trends in the methods and applications of technologies that are used in neuroscience for the evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of neurological diseases and conditions or for the improvement of quality of life.

Written by a team of world-class experts, this book mirrors the situation in industry today and the options provided by advanced electronics and computer technology. This is a key reference for academic and professional researchers and engineers in the energy, process engineering and manufacturing industries.

Distribution systems analysis uses techniques to simulate, analyse, and optimise power distribution systems. Together with automation, these techniques underpin the smart grid. Distribution systems are facing growing challenges, due to increasing demand as well as the rising shares of distributed and volatile renewable energy sources.

This book explores the challenges and opportunities of developing circuits with MEMS resonator filters. The replacement of classical electrical components with electromechanical components is explored in this book, and the specific properties of MEMS resonators required in various frequency ranges are discussed.

This two-volume book provides a comprehensive introduction and explanation of both the theory and practice of all forms of modern antenna measurements, from basic assumptions to detailed application scenarios.

This two-volume book provides a comprehensive introduction and explanation of both the theory and practice of all forms of modern antenna measurements, from basic assumptions to detailed application scenarios.

This book gives a state-of-the-art overview of the hot topic of autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) design and practice. It covers a wide range of AUV application areas such as education and research, biological and oceanographic studies, surveillance purposes, military and security applications and industrial underwater applications.

The supply of energy from renewables is not constant, and energy storage is essential in enabling higher shares of renewable energy. This 3rd Edition has been thoroughly revised, reviewing different types of renewables and considering possibilities arising from integrating a combination of different storage technologies into a system.

Novel devices with the potential to provide alternatives to existing nanometer CMOS technology are the subject of research in the fields of electronic materials and electronic design automation. This book explores the materials and design requirements of emerging integrated circuit technologies, and outlines their prospective applications.

This book focuses on both the design and implementation aspects for smart city and sensing applications that are enabled and supported by IoT paradigms. Attention is also given to data delivery approaches and performance aspects.

This edited book presents state-of-the-art research on imaging sensors covering a wide frequency range and different sensing modalities and applications.

In this book, the contributors show how brain-signal processing can be used to drive a human-computer interface (HCI) using processing results from a single modality or a combination. They present concrete usage scenarios and applications in multimedia interfaces, drawing on a wide range of examples covering communications and healthcare.

This book provides a holistic view of modelling for analogue, high frequency, mixed signal, and heterogeneous systems for designers working towards improving efficiency, reducing design times, and addressing the challenges of representing aging, variability, and other technical challenges at the nanometre scale.

This book covers essential topics and issues in current Phase-Locked Loop design, from fundamentals to practical design aspects. Both wireless and wireline systems are considered in the design of low noise frequency generation and clocking systems.

This textbook teaches students to create computer codes used to engineer antennas, microwave circuits, and other critical technologies for wireless communications and other applications of electromagnetic fields and waves. Worked code examples are provided for MATLAB technical computing software.

This is a professional level, introductory text on antenna principles, design, analysis, and measurements. It is especially suitable for persons who wish to improve their knowledge of antenna principles, concept design, performance analyses, and measurements.

This book focuses on innovative EMF exposure research for future generations of mobile and wireless communications. This timely publication highlights the novel work done on reducing EMF emissions in future mobile communication systems and how to develop smart integrated technical solutions.

This book introduces a wide range of existing and potential applications for asynchronous circuits, each accompanied with the corresponding circuit design theory, sample circuit implementations, results, and analysis.

This book provides coverage of the major gyrator circuits, simulated inductors and related synthetic impedances. It offers a review of research in this field to date, and includes a wide range and number of circuit examples, along with their relevant design equations, limitations, performance features, advantages and shortcomings.

Presenting a detailed framework as well as comparative case studies for security protection, data integrity, privacy preservation, scalability, and healthcare legislation, this book covers state of the art research and addresses privacy and security methods and technologies for EHRs.

This book assesses how global lightning may respond to global climate change, provides thorough coverage of the lightning phenomenon and its interaction with various objects, and covers methods for the effective protection of structures and systems.

This book assesses how global lightning may respond to global climate change, provides thorough coverage of the lightning phenomenon and its interaction with various objects, and covers methods for the effective protection of structures and systems.

Recent advancements in carbon and molecular electronics have opened the door to a new generation of electronic nanoscale components. This book outlines the basic principles of electromagnetic-based communication at this nanoscale using terahertz and optical frequencies with a focus on theoretical principles and applications.

The authors present a broad overview of the recent efforts in computational electromagnetics to develop and implement more robust, accurate and efficient algorithms. With the recent improvement in available computing power, this is a timely overview of a rapidly developing subject.

This authored book investigates network traffic classification solutions by proposing transport-layer methods to achieve better run and operated enterprise-scale networks.

This book presents advanced forensic detective control and obfuscation techniques for securing hardware IP cores by exploring beyond conventional technologies.

This book introduces a new framework which addresses the problem of radar imaging and target recognition as it jointly looks at optimising the use of multiple channels to significantly outperform classical radar imaging systems. It has been used in the military within NATO for the last few years and the technology is now declassified.

The book introduces various forms of staring radar, which include the earliest and simplest forms of electromagnetic surveillance and its users. It next summarises the physical laws under which all radar operates, and the requirements that these systems need to meet to fulfil a range of applications.

This book summarises recent developments and enhancements in post-processing techniques that increase the quality and effectiveness of modern antenna measurements. Recent advances in near to far field transformation algorithms for enhancing measurement accuracy in the presence of different common error sources are explained in detail.

The book provides a comprehensive insight in the state of the art of C-ITS and automated driving, especially addresses the role of ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) infrastructure, and presents the main achievements (both theory and practice), as well as the challenges in the domain in Europe, the US and Asia/Pacific.

This book provides a basis for full integration of electric vehicles into the smart grid, through the use of ICT tools. It looks at transport and energy system modelling, simulation and optimisation processes; vehicle on-line optimal control, estimation and prediction; energy system strategic planning; and services such as smart charging.

This book gathers the contributions from The 36th International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC-2018) held in October 2018.

This updated third edition of this popular book covers all types of printed microstrip antenna design, from rectangular to circular, broadband and dual band, and millimeter wave microstrip antenna to microstrip arrays. The book features new analysis of rectangular and circular microstrip antenna efficiency, and surface wave phenomena.

This edited book presents the state of the art in voice biometrics research and technologies including implementation and deployment challenges in terms of interoperability, scalability and performance, and security.

Electrical steels are critical components of magnetic cores used in applications ranging from large rotating machines, including energy generating equipment, and transformers to small instrument transformers and harmonic filters. This comprehensive handbook provides full coverage of the state-of-the-art in electrical steels.

This book brings together contributions from international experts with academic and industry backgrounds to provide a systematic overview of ocean energy technologies, their readiness and modelling, as well as installation and grid connection technologies.

This book explores technologies that aim to revolutionize healthcare access and delivery. Topics underscore a range of innovations in health information systems and big data, artificial intelligence and machine learning, real-time home monitoring tools, smartphone apps, medical robotics and intelligent machines, virtual and augmented realities, genome sequencing, blockchain and gamification in healthcare.

VLSI and Post-CMOS Electronics is a useful reference guide for researchers, engineers and advanced students working in the area of design and modelling of VLSI and post-CMOS devices and their circuits.

VLSI and Post-CMOS Electronics is a useful reference guide for researchers, engineers and advanced students working in the area of design and modelling of VLSI and post-CMOS devices and their circuits.

This book discusses innovative ideas in the design, modelling, implementation, and optimization of hardware platforms for neural networks. The book provides an overview of this emerging field, from principles to applications, for researchers, postgraduate students and engineers who work on learning-based services and hardware platforms.

In this revised and expanded second edition, the author looks at sensors and actuators based on a broad area of detection technologies and methods. He takes a general and applications-oriented approach to the topic and makes it discipline-independent to cater for a broad audience.

This book presents an overview of theory and recent advances concerning the shadowing function, an important element in the simulation and calculation of electromagnetic waves scattering at randomly rough surfaces.

The transfer of responsibility for decisions and actions from humans to machines presents difficult problems for all those concerned with new concepts, their development and use. This book gives practical help by discussing the issues in the context of product design, and gives a methodology to solve them.

This book outlines the potential for microwave photonics in radar and electronic warfare systems, covering basic concepts and functions, comparing performance with conventional systems, describing its impact on digital signal processing, and exploring integration issues.

Developments in Antenna Analysis and Design presents recent developments in antenna design and modeling techniques for a wide variety of applications, chosen because they are contemporary in nature, have been receiving considerable attention in recent years, and are crucial for future developments.

Developments in Antenna Analysis and Design presents recent developments in antenna design and modeling techniques for a wide variety of applications, chosen because they are contemporary in nature, have been receiving considerable attention in recent years, and are crucial for future developments.

Written by a team of leading experts in the field, this book presents recent advances in the design of RF/microwave planar filters. It covers a wide range of different design types, technologies and applications for wireless, microwave, communications and radar systems.

This book covers the current state of research in navigation, modelling and control of marine autonomous vehicles, and deals with various related topics, including collision avoidance, communication, and a range of applications.

This detailed and comprehensive reference considers how to combine the disciplines of wireless communications and machine learning. Coverage includes channel modelling, signal estimation and detection, energy efficiency, cognitive radios, wireless sensor networks, vehicular communications and wireless multimedia communications.

Developed by an international team of experts, this book covers free space optical (FSO) communication technologies for realising high speed large-capacity terrestrial and aerospace communications.

Designed for ICT professionals involved in the planning, design, development, testing and operation of network services, this book is ideal for self-teaching. It will help readers evaluate a network situation and identify the most important aspects to be monitored and analysed.

This book covers the state-of-art global research on authentication technologies for security and privacy in information systems, including applications, research challenges and future research directions.

This is the only book focused on the complete aspects of RF Stealth design. It is the first book to present and explain first order methods for the design of active and passive stealth properties. Everything from Electronic Order of Battle to key component design is covered.

Electrical steels are critical components of magnetic cores used in applications ranging from large rotating machines, including energy generating equipment, and transformers to small instrument transformers and harmonic filters. This comprehensive handbook provides full coverage of the state-of-the-art in electrical steels.

This book, written by international experts from academia as well as industry, compiles and describes several key technologies available to reduce a residential building's energy consumption. Key themes include local energy generation, such as the use of sunlight to reduce heating needs, and photovoltaics for electricity.

This book discusses variability, scalability, and stability of microgrids. It includes coverage of virtual plants and storage, providing numerous examples and case studies as well as simulation/experimental results in each chapter.

This book combines experimental and theoretical research on big data recommender systems to help computer scientists develop new concepts and methodologies for complex applications. It includes original scientific contributions in the form of theoretical foundations, comparative analysis, surveys, case studies, techniques and tools.

This book combines experimental and theoretical research on big data recommender systems to help computer scientists develop new concepts and methodologies for complex applications. It includes original scientific contributions in the form of theoretical foundations, comparative analysis, surveys, case studies, techniques and tools.

This book examines various topics and approaches related to the security and privacy in big data and cloud computing, where authors share their expertise in their respective chapters on a broad range of security and privacy challenges and state of the art solutions.

This handbook introduces a variety of concepts in discrete mathematics and mathematical modeling for languages and computation. The authors pay special attention to the implementation of mathematical concepts to explain clearly how to encode them in computational practice. All computer programs are written in C#.

This edited book covers analytical techniques for handling the huge amount of data generated by the Internet of Things, from architectures and platforms to security and privacy issues, applications, and challenges as well as future directions.

This book presents important results and methods towards achieving sustainable ultrascale computing systems. The book covers state-of-the-art technologies and methodologies to address the huge computer processing requirements of big data and the Internet of Things.

This book describes how smart cities can be designed with data at their heart, moving from a broad vision to a consistent city-wide collaborative configuration of activities.

The primary aim of this book is to provide a timely and coherent account of the recent advances in many-core computing research. Starting with programming models, operating systems and their applications; it presents runtime management techniques, followed by system modelling, verification and testing methods, and architectures and systems.

This book aims to provide comprehensive, state-of-the-art coverage of RF and microwave power amplifier design with in-depth descriptions of current and potential future approaches.

This book aims to provide comprehensive, state-of-the-art coverage of RF and microwave power amplifier design with in-depth descriptions of current and potential future approaches.

This book addresses the key concepts of self-healing processes, from their occurrences in nature through to recent advances in academic and industrial research. It includes a detailed description and explanation of a wide range of materials and applications such as polymeric, anticorrosion, smart paints, and carbon nanotubes.

This book addresses the critical challenge of developing Fibre Bragg Gratings (FBGs) for applications as sensors in harsh and space environment. Coverage ranges from the basic principles through design, fabrication, and testing to their industrial implementation.

This book discusses the latest LCD technologies. There is a particular focus on display quality such as image sticking, contrast ratio and colour hue that has not been dealt with thoroughly elsewhere. Current and future trends in liquid crystal materials and technologies based on their evolving role and new applications are discussed.

This book discusses the latest LCD technologies. There is a particular focus on display quality such as image sticking, contrast ratio and colour hue that has not been dealt with thoroughly elsewhere. Current and future trends in liquid crystal materials and technologies based on their evolving role and new applications are discussed.

IP Core Protection and Hardware-Assisted Security for Consumer Electronics presents established and novel solutions for security and protection problems related to IP cores (especially those based on DSP/multimedia applications) in consumer electronics.

This book introduces magnetorheological fluids and elastomers, and explores their material properties, related modelling techniques and applications in turn. The book offers insights into the relationships between the properties and characterisation of MR materials and their current and future applications.

The book covers fibre and diode laser systems from academic and industrial perspectives, discusses the latest trends in high-power fibre laser development and applications, offers an overview of developments in diode laser systems, and addresses advanced applications of high-power lasers.

This book examines future video coding from the perspective of hardware implementation and architecture design. The book identifies challenges in deploying VLSI architectures for video coding and postulates potential solutions with reference to recent research.

This book offers a thorough reference guide to the theory, elements and design of basic electronic circuits, providing a solid foundation for those who plan to move into the field of electronics engineering, and essential information for anyone who uses electronic circuitry in their profession or research.

This book provides an up-to-date review of the experimental and theoretical methods used for studying defects in semiconductors, this book focuses on recent developments driven by the requirements of new materials, including nitrides, oxide semiconductors and 2-D semiconductors.

This book introduces the theoretical concept, analysis, design methodology and implementation of negative group delay (NGD). The NGD concept is a recent topic in electrical and electronic engineering research based on an unconventional function; the generation of an output signal seemingly in time-advance of the input signal.

This book discusses how digital enhancement can be used to address key challenges relevant to analog components in terms of shrinking CMOS technology, increasing user demand for higher flexibility and data traffic in communications networks, and the drive to reduce power consumption.

The book provides thorough and systematic coverage of enhanced-functionality devices and their use in proof-of-concept circuits and architectures. The theory and materials science behind these devices are addressed in detail, and various experimental fabrication techniques are explored.

This book describes recent research on terahertz CMOS design for high-speed wireless communication. The topics covered include fundamental technologies for terahertz CMOS design, amplifier design, physical design approaches, transceiver design, and future prospects.

RF and Microwave Module Level Design and Integration presents a thorough introduction to the basic elements of radio frequency and microwave modules, followed by a discussion of system-level concepts and measures that can be applied to real-world designs.

Covering radar sensor hardware, digital signal processing and machine learning, the book provides researchers and practitioners with insights into the latest advancements in the field.

Using important examples, this book showcases the potential of the latest data-based and data-driven methodologies for filter and control design. It discusses the most important classes of dynamic systems, along with the statistical and set membership analysis and design frameworks.

This book focuses on the technologies constituting the IoT from a sensor perspective, for an audience of researchers, scientists, engineers and graduate students with an interest in the field. Applications covered include connected sensors for smart cities, energy infrastructure, emergency management, and smart ports.

This two-volume book set explores how sensors and computer vision technologies are used for the navigation, control, stability, reliability, guidance, fault detection, self-maintenance, strategic re-planning and reconfiguration of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS).

This two-volume book set explores how sensors and computer vision technologies are used for the navigation, control, stability, reliability, guidance, fault detection, self-maintenance, strategic re-planning and reconfiguration of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS).

This book describes the advanced tools required to design state-of-the-art inference algorithms for inference in wireless sensor networks. Written for the signal processing, communications, sensors and information fusion research communities, it covers the emerging area of data fusion in wireless sensor networks.

This book takes the reader through the development of a Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) system, stressing the parameters that can be optimized and explaining the theory behind the GPR assessment. The authors provide a detailed discussion of the support tools and the numerical modeling of the system to improve readings from GPR systems.

This is a broad introductory handbook, covering the major technologies and applications in Ambient Assisted Living (AAL). The book focuses on current state-of-the-art technology and critical analysis, the applications of these technologies and also includes general issues such as usability, accessibility, privacy and ethics.