 Here is one of the best available publications on sensors and transducers available at the market today. The present volume by Ian Sinclair was written to provide students, system designers and practicing technician engineers with the set of practical know-hows to be applied in their works. the author focuses on better understanding of the technology together with the practical application with not too much of mathematics.
His efforts have finally resulted in this highly readable and reader friendly textbook giving a truly unique introduction to both selection of the switches, transducers and sensors, and their practical application. Among the devices covered in the pages of this publication are heat and motion sensors, light sensors, non-signal switches and many others commo0nly used in various industries.
The readers have already appreciated the huge amount of useful information included by the author and perfect style of explanation; there are numerous data tables and informative diagrams contained in the book, making understanding of the subject even easier. The content of the publication will be particularly useful to less experienced people who can use it as an excellent introductory title.
 This volume written by the recognized industry professional, Malcolm Barnes CPEng BSc (Electrical Engineering) MSEE is intended to serve as a thorough and remarkably comprehensive guidance for all industrial control and electrical power engineering applications.
The title features an excellent practical coverage of the key topics like control wiring and troubleshooting, and provides readers with the understanding of all problems introduced by VSDs, explains in detail everything related to the variable speed drives (VSD) and many more. The book covers all typical applications if the variable speed drives in various fields of the process control and/or handling of materials; moreover, the publication provides readers with basic understanding of the matters that are concerning the installation and operation, maintenance and possible required troubleshooting of VSDs.
The author provided the practical coverage of the most important topics such as operating modes, auto-restart, control wiring, harmonics, troubleshooting, electrostatic discharge etc. The book shall definitely be treated as the good essential reading for all electrical engineers regardless of their skills and professional experience, and anyone using these drives in process control or any other industrial context.
 This publication was written by Tingting Yang and Sherman Shen who made an attempt to cover the constantly emerging networks of maritime wideband communications. The authors are trying to describe to the readers how such networks facilitate the applications like general communications, urgency, maritime distress etc. This book was initially intended to provide a good insight to the scheduling of the maritime data transmission and to the protocol design for the network that has been mentioned above.
The book starts with some brief intro to the networks including their principal architecture, framework and operation principles, and it also includes a survey on current developments in this area. The next part of the book will present the resource allocation as well as the scheduling for the video transmission with the aim to maximize the weights of the video packets being uploaded and transferred. The duet of authors are also proposing an energy and content-aware scheduling scheme for better packet throughput.
Basing on the real vessel route traces received from the navigation programs, the results of the simulations are demonstrating the true viability of the schemes proposed. In addition, the conclusions and valuable suggestions for the future researches have been discussed in this book...
 The fourth edition of one of the most popular publications on digital electronics. Today, all of us witness the exceptional power and significant usefulness of various digital systems and techniques widely used in the computers and machinery, equipment and microprocessors - in fact everywhere. Their work is based on the fundamental principles of the digital electronics.
This volume was released to cover this area reflecting all latest technical developments in the field. The publication has been designed self-contained. The content is dealing with the digital techniques and digital systems starting from the very basic circuits and up to the VLSI, standing for the very large-scale integrated circuits. The author has also introduced the computer the main concepts aided design in order to help readers familiarize themselves with the modern CAD techniques.
In general, the number of topics covered in the pages of this volume has been significantly increased in comparison to the previous edition. In addition to that, the book now features seriously improved coverage of various error detecting/correcting codes, hazards considered specific to the sequential circuits, low voltage CMOS, semiconductor memories, combinational circuits and many other aspects.
 Eleven chapters of the present book reflect the emphasis in the development and research of unmanned marine vehicles that was mainly made on the remotely operated and autonomous vehicles. The following two chapters are specifically addressing the underwater vision and its role in the unmanned marine vehicle navigation.
The other four chapter deal mainly with the unmanned surface vehicles, while the closing chapter of the publication addresses the underwater gliders. Each of the chapters is some sort of self-contained exposition of the undertaker research work and some observations have also been provided.
The motion equations developed for the UUVs have been provided in chapter two of the book, together with the various aspects of ocean currents. In the next chapter it is suggested that the a usual set of feedback controllers is there in the form of auto-pilot functions providing for the regulation of the speed, heading and depth/altitude of the vehicle.
The fourth chapter is covering the technical guidance and control by means of a behavioral approach, while the fifth chapter presents a mixed approach for allocation of the thruster control or overactuated open framed remotely controlled vehicle... The book is continued within the next publication titled Further Advances in Unmanned Marine Vehicles.
 This publication should be treated as a must have one for all ship electricians and marine engineers working on board contemporary ships. Prepared by the professional electrical superintendent, it will provide you with the perfect technical overview of virtually all electrical components together with the systems that are normally incorporated in the ships of today.
The material is arranged in several major chapters, each of which concentrates on some particular topics; note that, apart from the text and theoretical knowledge, the book is full of the practical examples and informative drawings and illustrations to ease the understanding.
The volume is an excellent reference guide for the shipboard engineers and will be very useful as an instructional resource. In fact, it is an invaluable one for the marine engineers and ETOs who are willing to improve both their theoretical and practical knowledge of the subject.
The contents of the book cover everything starting from the reading electrical diagrams and then proceeding to the control elements, relays including all types of them, motor starters, switches, protection and monitoring arrangements, motors, breakers, HV systems commonly found on board large modern vessels, sensors, PLCs, and so many others.
 The book that we are now presenting to your attention has been specifically prepared by author, John R. Brand, for the industry engineers, as well as commercial operators, electricians, and even students and enthusiasts, i.e. for literally any person having some minimum knowledge of electrical terminology and some theory, and the declared ultimate intention was to provide them all with a comprehensive but compact and easy-to-use reference book containing all relevant technical info that they might require in their day-to-day activities or study, including schematic diagrams, approximations, symbols and formulas, all definitions required for today's active/passive analog circuit technology.
The way materials have been arranged in this publication allows readers to easily locate any desired formula without making it necessary to use the index. The publication contains sufficient technical information, approximations and schematic diagrams, various alternate methods and footnotes arranged in a very easy-to-use manner. The handbook will definitely be very useful to electrical engineers and future professionals since it could be used as a reference book, for the classroom training or for the self-study. All formulas that have been provided in this volume use only the basic units and are listed alphabetically.
 The present volume is a great textbook on electrical engineering. Written by the team of recognized experts, the publication will provide readers with a truly comprehensive and detailed coverage of all basic technical concepts of the subject. The content of the book was compiled from the engineering perspective and the special accent was made on circuit functionality as well as on the applications.
The approach applied by the author allows the book to be recommended to the broad readership from students of electrical engineering and associated disciplines to the practicing engineers. The main declared goal of the authors was to teach students all important instruments they should understand and enable them to perform the analysis of different electrical systems and circuits. The second aim was to give readers a good reference tool.
Apart from the easily understandable explanations, the text of the book is full of figures and homework problems making the learning process go smoother. The book has become popular among students and engineers working in the various areas including marine and mechanical engineering, who have all appreciated the clear language and easy-to-follow explanations.
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