Electrical engineering Books

Book SynopsisLoop control is an essential area of electronics engineering that today's professionals need to master. A control system is a complex electronics architecture involving setpoints and targets. One simple example is the cruise control system of an automobile. Rather than delving into extensive theory, this practical book focuses on what power electronics engineers really need to know for compensating or stabilizing a given system. Engineers can turn instantly to practical sections with numerous design examples and ready-made formulas to help them with their projects in the field. Readers also find coverage of the underpinnings and principles of control loops so they can gain a more complete understanding of the material. This authoritative volume explains how to conduct analysis of control systems and provides extensive details on practical compensators. It helps engineers measure their system, showing how to verify if a prototype is stable and features enough design margin. Moreover, professionals learn how to secure high-volume production by bench-verified safety margins.Table of ContentsBasics of Loop Control. Transfer Functions. Stability Criteria of a Control System. Compensation. Operational Amplifier-Based Compensators. Operational Transconductance Amplifier-Based Compensators. TL431-Based Compensators. Shunt Regulator-Based Compensators. Measurements and Design Examples.

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Book SynopsisThe advent of lithium ion batteries has brought a significant shift in the area of large format battery systems. Previously limited to heavy and bulky lead-acid storage batteries, large format batteries were used only where absolutely necessary as a means of energy storage. The improved energy density, cycle life, power capability, and durability of lithium ion cells has given us electric and hybrid vehicles with meaningful driving range and performance, grid-tied energy storage systems for integration of renewable energy and load leveling, backup power systems and other applications. This book discusses battery management system (BMS) technology for large format lithium-ion battery packs from a systems perspective. This resource covers the future of BMS, giving us new ways to generate, use, and store energy, and free us from the perils of non-renewable energy sources. This book provides a full update on BMS technology, covering software, hardware, integration, testing, and safety.Table of ContentsLithium Ion Battery Fundamentals; Large Format Systems; System Description; Architectures; Measurement; Control; BMS Functionality; High Voltage Electronics Fundamentals; Communications; Battery Models; Parameter Identification; Limit Algorithms; Charge Balancing; State of Charge Estimation Algorithms; State of Health Estimation Algorithms; Fault Detection; Hardware Implementation; Software Implementation; Safety; Data Collection; Robustness and Reliability; Best Practice; Future Developments.

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Book SynopsisThis book offers an overview of some recent advances in the Computational Bioacoustics methods and technology. In the focus of discussion is the pursuit of scalability, which would facilitate real-world applications of different scope and purpose, such as wildlife monitoring, biodiversity assessment, pest population control, and monitoring the spread of disease transmitting mosquitoes. The various tasks of Computational Bioacoustics are described and a wide range of audio parameterization and recognition tasks related to the automated recognition of species and sound events is discussed. Many of the Computational Bioacoustics methods were originally developed for the needs of speech, audio, or image processing, and afterwards were adapted to the requirements of automated acoustic recognition of species, or were elaborated further to address the challenges of real-world operation in 24/7 mode. The interested reader is encouraged to follow the numerous references and links to web resources for further information and insights. This book is addressed to Software Engineers, IT experts, Computer Science researchers, Bioacousticians, and other practitioners concerned with the creation of new tools and services, aimed at enhancing the technological support to Computational Bioacoustics applications. STTM, Speech Technology and Text Mining in Medicine and Health Care This series demonstrates how the latest advances in speech technology and text mining positively affect patient healthcare and, in a much broader sense, public health at large. New developments in text mining methods have allowed health care providers to monitor a large population of patients at any time and from any location. Employing advanced summarization techniques, patient data can be readily extracted from extensive clinical documents in electronic health records and immediately made available to the physician. These same summarization techniques can also aid the healthcare provider in extracting from the large corpora of medical literature the relevant information for treating the patient. The series topics include the design and acceptance of speech-enabled robots that assist in the operating room, studies of signal processing and acoustic modeling for speech and communication disorders, advanced statistical speech enhancement methods for creating synthetic voice, and technologies for addressing speech and language impairments. Titles in the Series consist of both authored books and edited contributions. All authored books and contributed works are peer-reviewed. The Series is for speech scientists and speech engineers, machine learning experts, biomedical engineers, medical speech pathologists, linguists, and healthcare professionals Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Why Computational Bioacoustics? 3. Getting to know the problems of automated species recognition 4. Preparation of data 5. Sound production mechanisms 6. Parameterization of bioacoustic signals 7. Machine learning methods 8. Application examples 9. Useful resources 10. Conclusion and outlook

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Book SynopsisTechnologies for Electrical Power Conversion, Efficiency, and Distribution: Methods and Processes discusses achievements and trends with electrical energy conversion technologies and renewable energy sources. These findings provide a background for the problems and opportunities of power efficiency and energy conversion to develop ways to implement such technologies in the future.

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Book SynopsisThis multimedia eBook establishes a solid foundation in the essential principles of how signals interact with transmission lines, how the physical design of interconnects affects transmission line properties, and how to interpret single-ended and differential time domain reflection (TDR) measurements to extract important figures of merits and avoid common mistakes. This book presents an intuitive understanding of transmission lines. Instructional videos are provided in every chapter that cover important aspects of the interconnect design and characterization process. This video eBook helps establish foundations for designing and characterizing the electrical properties of interconnects to explain in a simplified way how signals propagate and interact with interconnects and how the physical design of transmission structures will impact performance. Never be intimidated by impedance or differential pairs again.Table of ContentsWhat are transmission lines and why should we care; Single-ended lossless and differential lossy transmission lines; Calculating characteristic impedance; Reflections when the instantaneous impedance changes; The TDR; Practical TDR Measurements; Exploring geometry and impedance: 1st order effects; Second order factors; Dielectric Materials and Dk; Practical design issues; The capacitance and inductance in a transmission line; Input impedance of a transmission line; Simple point to point transmission line circuits; What every scope user needs to know about transmission lines; Terminating transmission line circuits; Appendixes.

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