L Zhang: 27 books
Cooperative Control of Multi-Agent Systems
Optimal and Adaptive Design Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
Cooperative Control of Multi-Agent Systems extends optimal control and adaptive control design methods to multi-agent systems on communication graphs. It develops Riccati design techniques for general linear dynamics for cooperative state feedback design, cooperative observer design, and cooperative...
by Xu Zhang, Qi Lü
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
The classical Pontryagin maximum principle (addressed to deterministic finite dimensional control systems) is one of the three milestones in modern control theory. The corresponding theory is by now well-developed in the deterministic infinite dimensional setting and for the stochastic differential...
by D.L. DeAngelis, J.Y. Zhuang, J.C. Zhang
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2011
After the 1998 flood of the Yangtze River, one of the world’s most important rivers, environmental experts realized that, to control flooding, much more attention must be paid to vegetation cover on bare lands, thin forest land, and shrub-covered land in mountain areas. In 1999, an environmental...
by Waiman Cheung, Lawrence C. Leung, George W.L. Hui
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Air traffic and the aviation industry have grown rapidly on the Chinese mainland in the two and a half decades since China's open door policy. Accession to the WTO will further stimulate trade and foreign direct investment (FDI), intensifying the demand for air cargo services. It will also open up...
Modeling of Thermo-Electro-Mechanical Manufacturing Processes
Applications in Metal Forming and Resistance Welding
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
Modeling of Thermo-Electro-Mechanical Manufacturing Processes with Applications in Metal Forming and Resistance Welding provides readers with a basic understanding of the fundamental ingredients in plasticity, heat transfer and electricity that are necessary to develop and proper utilize computer...
Smart Materials for Tissue Engineering
Applications
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2017
In the last couple of decades, research in the area of tissue engineering has witnessed tremendous progress. The focus has been on replacing or facilitating the regeneration of damaged or diseased cell, tissue or organs by applying a biomaterial support system, and a combination of cells and bioactive...
Approaches to Conflict
Theoretical, Interpersonal, and Discursive Dynamics
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Approaches to Conflict: Theoretical, Interpersonal, and Discursive Dynamics aims to investigate the role of communication and emotions in conflict contexts. In addition to the fundamental importance of communication in various aspects of conflict, this volume offers a prominent position to the inherent...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of soybeans Volume 2
Diseases, pests, food and other uses
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Soybeans are one of the most widely-grown crops in the world. As the world’s main source of vegetable protein, they have a wide range of food and non-food uses. Current yields need to increase significantly to meet growing demand but in a way that reduces input use, does not damage the environment...
by Dr K. Evans, Dr Markus Kellerhals, Dr Amit Dhingra
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
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Carbon Nanotubes and Nanosensors
Vibration, Buckling and Balistic Impact
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
The main properties that make carbon nanotubes (CNTs) a promising technology for many future applications are: extremely high strength, low mass density, linear elastic behavior, almost perfect geometrical structure, and nanometer scale structure. Also, CNTs can conduct electricity better than copper...
The Geographical Sciences During 1986—2015
From the Classics To the Frontiers
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
In four chapters and an introduction, this book systematically helps readers understand the development of the Geographical Sciences both in China and in the world during the past 30 years.
Through data analysis of methodologies including CiteSpace, TDA, qualitative analysis, questionnaires,...
Wearable Sensors
Applications, design and implementation
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
With the ability to monitor a vast range of physiological parameters, combined with wireless technology, wireless sensor networks and the Internet of Things, wearable sensors are revolutionising the field of digital health monitoring. In addition to applications in health monitoring, such technology...
Achieving sustainable cultivation of soybeans Volume 1
Breeding and cultivation techniques
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Soybeans are one of the most widely-grown crops in the world. As the world’s main source of vegetable protein, they have a wide range of food and non-food uses. Current yields need to increase significantly to meet growing demand but in a way that reduces input use, does not damage the environment...
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