Industrial automation is driving the development of robot manipulators in various applications, with much of the research effort focussed on flexible manipulators and their advantages compared to their rigid counterparts. This book reports recent advances and new developments in the analysis and control of these robot manipulators.

This book covers the topic of RFID protocol design and optimization and the authors aim to demystify complicated RFID protocols and explain in depth the principles, techniques, and practices in designing and optimizing them.

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.

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.

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 book comprises ten invited expert contributions on the theory and applications of genetic algorithms in a variety of engineering systems. In addition to addressing the simple formulation of GAs, the chapters include original material on the design of evolutionary algorithms for particular engineering applications.

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 provides an introductory text which will enable the reader to both appreciate the essential characteristics of stepping motor systems and understand how these characteristics are being exploited in the continuing development of new motors, drives and controllers.