Thanks to the Advances in micromachining fabrication technologies and significant
cost reduction due to mass production, miniature sensors of angular rate, or
gyroscopes, found their way into the everyday life of every user of modern gadgets,
such as smart phones, tablets or even wristwatches. Often without realising, many
of us are carrying in our pockets fully equipped with all necessary sensors complete
inertial navigation systems that not so long ago were available only for advanced
vehicles in sea, land, air or space. Accelerometers and gyroscopes are found in
specifications of any gadget supposed to react to user movements. And one of the
most commonly used type of gyroscopes used to developed these systems is
Coriolis vibratory gyroscope (CVG).
The large-scale deployment of the smart grid (SG) paradigm could play a strategic role in
supporting the evolution of conventional electrical grids toward active, flexible and self-
healing web energy networks composed of distributed and cooperative energy resources.
From a conceptual point of view, the SG is the convergence of information and
operational technologies applied to the electric grid, providing sustainable options to
customers and improved security. Advances in research on SGs could increase the
efficiency of modern electrical power systems by: (i) supporting the massive penetration
of small-scale distributed and dispersed generators; (ii) facilitating the integration of
pervasive synchronized metering systems; (iii) improving the interaction and cooperation
between the network components; and (iv) allowing the wider deployment of self-healing
and proactive control/protection paradigms.
With the continued growth in the world's population, there is a need to ensure availability of
enough food to feed everyone. Advances in science and technology have helped not only to
increase food production, but also to reduce food wastage. However, the latter has the
potential to be improved to a significant extent through appropriate matching of supply and
demand, and with proper handling during storage and transit. Given the amount of food
wastage that occurs after a food item leaves the “farm” on its way to the “fork,” and the
availability of means to reduce such wastage, there really is no excuse for feigned ignorance.
The countless technological Advances of the twentieth century require that
futureengineering educationemphasizebridging thegapbetweentheoryand the
real world.Thisedition hasbeenprepared withparticular attentiontothe needs
of undergraduates, especially those who seek a solid foundation in control
theory aswellas an ability tobridgethe gapbetween control theory and itsreal-
world applications.To help the reader achieve this goal, computer-aided design
accuracy checks (CADAC) are used throughout the text to encourage good
habits of computerliteracy.Each CADAC uses fundamentalconcepts to ensure
the viability of a computer solution.
Human Factors and Systems Interaction aims to address the main issues of concern
within systems interface with a particular emphasis on the system lifecycle
development and implementation of interfaces and the general implications of
virtual, augmented and mixed reality with respect to human and technology
interaction. Human Factors and Systems Interaction is, in the first instance, affected
by the forces shaping the nature offuture computing and systems development
The past decade has seen an explosion of machine learning research and appli-
cations; especially, deep learning methods have enabled key Advances in many
applicationdomains,suchas computervision,speechprocessing,andgameplaying.
However, the performance of many machine learning methods is very sensitive
to a plethora of design decisions, which constitutes a considerable barrier for
new users. This is particularly true in the booming field of deep learning, where
human engineers need to select the right neural architectures, training procedures,
regularization methods, and hyperparameters of all of these components in order to
make their networks do what they are supposed to do with sufficient performance.
This process has to be repeated for every application. Even experts are often left
with tedious episodes of trial and error until they identify a good set of choices for
a particular dataset.
The large-scale deployment of the smart grid (SG) paradigm could play a strategic role in
supporting the evolution of conventional electrical grids toward active, flexible and self-
healing web energy networks composed of distributed and cooperative energy resources.
From a conceptual point of view, the SG is the convergence of information and
operational technologies applied to the electric grid, providing sustainable options to
customers and improved security. Advances in research on SGs could increase the
efficiency of modern electrical power systems by: (i) supporting the massive penetration
of small-scale distributed and dispersed generators; (ii) facilitating the integration of
pervasive synchronized metering systems; (iii) improving the interaction and cooperation
between the network components; and (iv) allowing the wider deployment of self-healing
and proactive control/protection paradigms.
VME has been the de-facto bus standard for Commercial off the Shelf(COTS ) Circuit Card Assemblies since the 1980's. VME boards have proven to be remarkably capable of evolving to support newer technologies with innovations such as VME Subsystem Bus, PCI Mezzanine Cards(PMC's) and VME320.However, Advances in technologies, appearing particularly in interconnects, have demonstratedthe need for an advance in system development. This advance needs to accommodate high speed interconnect, particularly serial interconnects, and higher power delivery in concert with better heat removal.
