Mathematical Methods in Engineering

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This book presents a careful selection of the contributions presented at the Mathematical Methods in Engineering (MME10) International Symposium, held at the Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra- Engineering Institute of Coimbra (IPC/ISEC), Portugal, October 21-24, 2010.

The volume discusses recent developments about theoretical and applied mathematics toward the solution of engineering problems, thus covering a wide range of topics, such as: Automatic Control, Autonomous Systems, Computer Science, Dynamical Systems and Control, Electronics, Finance and Economics, Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer, Fractional Mathematics, Fractional Transforms and Their Applications, Fuzzy Sets and Systems, Image and Signal Analysis, Image Processing, Mechanics, Mechatronics, Motor Control and Human Movement Analysis, Nonlinear Dynamics, Partial Differential Equations, Robotics, Acoustics, Vibration and Control, and Wavelets.

Author(s): Nuno Miguel Fonseca Ferreira, José António Tenreiro Machado (eds.)
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Year: 2014

Language: English
Pages: 322
Tags: Electrical Engineering; Simulation and Modeling; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Mathematical Modeling for Software-in-the-Loop Prototyping of Automated Manufacturing Systems....Pages 1-11
A New Parallel Matrix Multiplication Algorithm for Wormhole-Routed All-Port 2D/3D Torus Networks....Pages 13-21
2.5D Acoustic Wave Propagation in Shallow Water Over an Irregular Seabed Using the Boundary Element Method....Pages 23-33
Towards Replacing Lyapunov’s “Direct” Method in Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Systems....Pages 35-45
Fractional Particle Swarm Optimization....Pages 47-56
Toward the Concept of Robot Society: A Multi-Robot SLAM Case Study....Pages 57-66
Generalized State-Space Modeling for m Level Diode-Clamped Multilevel Converters....Pages 67-85
Modelling Codfish Drying: Comparison Between Artificial Neural Network, Diffusive and Semi-Empirical Models....Pages 87-96
Stability of Matrix Differential Equations with Commuting Matrix Constant Coefficients....Pages 97-107
Identification of Material Thermophysical Parameters with Regard to Optimum Location of Sensors....Pages 109-118
Mathematical Modeling of Heat and Mass Transfer in Domain of Solidifying Alloy....Pages 119-129
Total Variation Approach to Density Reconstruction from X-Ray Radiograph Tomography....Pages 131-137
The Improvement of Total Variation Based Image Restoration Method and Its Application....Pages 139-151
Adaptive System for Control of Active Ankle-Foot Orthosis and Gait Analysis....Pages 153-163
Vector Ellipsoidal Harmonics Structure Peculiarities and Limitations....Pages 165-172
Casualties Distribution in Human and Natural Hazards....Pages 173-180
Optimization of Quadruped Robot Locomotion Gaits Through a Genetic Algorithm....Pages 181-192
Analysis of an Incomplete Information System Using the Rough Set Theory....Pages 193-203
Chain Drives Modelling Using Kinematic Constraints and Revolute Clearance Joints Formulations....Pages 205-217
Jacobi Polynomials and Some Related Functions....Pages 219-227
Descartes Rule of Signs and Linear Programming....Pages 229-234
Multidimensional Markov Chains Usage in the Radio Resource Management Problem....Pages 235-245
A Manufacturing Scheduling Approach by Combining Simulation Technique with the Hodgson’s Algorithm....Pages 247-257
Long Time Numerical Approximation of Coherent-Structure Solutions of the Cubic Schrödinger Equation....Pages 259-268
A Statistical Approach for Tuning the Windowed Fourier Transform....Pages 269-281
Can People With High Physical Movement Restrictions Access to Any Computer? The CaNWII Tool....Pages 283-291
A Proposal for Detection and Estimation of Golf Putting....Pages 293-303
Analysis of Electricity Market Prices Using Multidimensional Scaling....Pages 305-313
Mathematical and Statistical Concepts Applied to Health and Motor Control....Pages 315-322