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Intelligent Control of Robotic Systems

Intelligent Control of Robotic Systems

This book illustrates basic principles along with the development of the advanced algorithms to realize smart robotic systems. It speaks to strategies by which a robot (manipulators mobile robot quadrotor) can learn its own kinematics and dynamics from data. In this context two major issues have been dealt with; namely stability of the systems and experimental validations. Learning algorithms and techniques as covered in this book easily extend to other robotic systems as well. The book contains MATLAB- based examples and c-codes under robot operating systems (ROS) for experimental validation so that readers can replicate these algorithms in robotics platforms. | Intelligent Control of Robotic Systems

GBP 170.00
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Engineering Risk and Hazard Assessment Volume I

Engineering Risk and Hazard Assessment Volume I

The volumes deal with the newly emerging field ofRisk and Hazard Assessment and its application to science and engineering. These volumes deal with issues such as short-and long-term hazards setting priorities in safety fault analysis for process plants hazard identification and safety assessment of human- robot systems plant fault diagnoses expert systems knowledge based diagnostic systems fault tree analysis modelling of computer security systems for risk and reliability analysis risk analysis of fatigue failure fault evaluation of complex system probabilistic risk analysis and expert systems for fault detection. This volume will provide the reader not only with valuable conceptual and technical information but also with a better view of the field its problems accomplishments and future potentials | Engineering Risk and Hazard Assessment Volume I

GBP 89.99
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Digital Capitalism and New Institutionalism

Digital Capitalism and New Institutionalism

Modern institutional economics was created to study the institutions of pre-digital economies and is based on reductionist approaches. But digital capitalism is producing institutions of unprecedented complexity. This book argues therefore that not only the economic institutions themselves but also the theoretical foundations for studying those institutions must now be adapted to digital capitalism. The book focuses on the institutional complexity of digital capitalism developing an interdisciplinary framework which brings together cutting-edge theoretical approaches from philosophy (first of all object-oriented ontology) sociology (especially actor–network theory) evolutionary biology and cognitive science. In particular the book outlines a new approach to the study of institutional evolution based on extended evolutionary synthesis – a new paradigm in evolutionary biology which is now replacing neo-Darwinism. The book develops an enactivist notion of extended cognition and cognitive institutions rejecting the individualistic and mechanistic understanding of economic rationality in digital environments. The author experiments with new philosophical approaches to investigate institutional complexity for example the ideas of the flat ontology and the assemblage theory. The flat ontology approach is applied to the study of human–robot institutions as well as to thinking about post-anthropocentric institutional design. Assemblage thinking allows for a new (much less idealistic) look at blockchain and smart cities. Blockchain as digital institutional technology is considered in the book not from the viewpoint of minimizing transaction costs (as is customary in the modern institutional economics) but by using the theory of transaction value which focuses on improving the quality of digital transactions. The book includes a wide range of examples ranging from metaverses cryptocurrencies and big data to robot rules smart contracts and machine learning algorithms. Written for researchers in institutional economics and other social sciences this interdisciplinary book is essential reading for anyone interested in the interplay of institutional and digital change. | Digital Capitalism and New Institutionalism

GBP 130.00
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Self-Aware Robots On the Path to Machine Consciousness

Self-Aware Robots On the Path to Machine Consciousness

This book focuses on the research and development in the field of self-aware robots. Its theme is artificial consciousness a field that covers both artificial intelligence and robotics and includes philosophy psychology the study of biological evolution physiology and medicine especially brain neuroscience and neuropsychiatry. Building on the first edition Creation of a Conscious Robot: Mirror Image Cognition and Self-Awareness this new edition discusses artificial neural networks and functions of human consciousness. It proposes a structure for a neural network with consciousness functions explains the construction of a conscious system and discusses the results of progressive research in designing and developing small robots with conscious systems capable of recognizing their own images in mirrors. Emphasizing the contributions of conscious robots to society and their potential future impact the book also describes the robots that know the unknown Pavlovian robots and the development of a consciousness model possessing the well-known multiple personality disorder. | Self-Aware Robots On the Path to Machine Consciousness

GBP 100.00
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Robots Drones UAVs and UGVs for Operation and Maintenance

Robots Drones UAVs and UGVs for Operation and Maintenance

Industrial assets (such as railway lines roads pipelines) are usually huge span long distances and can be divided into clusters or segments that provide different levels of functionality subject to different loads degradations and environmental conditions and their efficient management is necessary. The aim of the book is to give comprehensive understanding about the use of autonomous vehicles (context of robotics) for the utilization of inspection and maintenance activities in industrial asset management in different accessibility and hazard levels. The usability of deploying inspection vehicles in an autonomous manner is explained with the emphasis on integrating the total process. Key Features Aims for solutions for maintenance and inspection problems provided by robotics drones unmanned air vehicles and unmanned ground vehicles Discusses integration of autonomous vehicles for inspection and maintenance of industrial assets Covers the industrial approach to inspection needs and presents what is needed from the infrastructure end Presents the requirements for robot designers to design an autonomous inspection and maintenance system Includes practical case studies from industries | Robots Drones UAVs and UGVs for Operation and Maintenance

GBP 160.00
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Identity Community and Sexuality in Slash Fan Fiction Pocket Publics

Identity Community and Sexuality in Slash Fan Fiction Pocket Publics

This book explores slash fan fiction communities during the pivotal years of the late 1990s and early 2000s as the practice transitioned from print to digital circulation. Delving into over ten years of online and in-person ethnography the book offers an in-depth examination of slash fan fiction – original stories written by and circulated within female-centered communities about same-sex characters borrowed from previously published sources – to document the history of a feminist queer media subculture whose infrastructure creativity and ways of life are often obscured in dominant histories of the internet’s development and by the contemporary focus on industry-friendly but often misogynist digital fan subcultures. Arguing that online slash communities created an alternate public space that provided opportunities for unanticipated encounters with a wide range of complex sexual relational and political practices the book contends that slash thereby added to readers’ tools for experiencing and thinking about pleasure and ways of living by forming a “pocket public ” that is a digital space public enough to be found and protected enough to shield participants from harassment and censorship. This insightful and comprehensive study will interest students and scholars working in the areas of media studies literary studies anthropology new media audience communities convergence culture fan studies women’s studies and queer studies. Introduction of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial (CC-BY- NC)] license. Funded by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (grant 435-2019-0691). | Identity Community and Sexuality in Slash Fan Fiction Pocket Publics

GBP 130.00
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