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The use of wheel-individual drives on the steered axle simultaneously enables propulsion and implementation of steering assistance. This work presents a closed-loop and open-loop method for controlling wheel-selective drives with the aim of reducing the steering wheel torque. The proposed optimal linear-quadratic-integral controller achieves a high control quality while ensuring driving safety and reducing energy consumption.

Mechanical engineering & materials --- wheel individual --- steering assistance --- steering torque --- closed-loop control --- Open-loop control --- radselektiv --- Lenkkraftunterstützung --- Lenkradmoment --- Regelung --- Steuerung

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Power converters have progressively become the most efficient and attractive solution in recent decades in many industrial sectors, ranging from electric mobility, aerospace applications to attain better electric aircraft concepts, vast renewable energy resource integration in the transmission and distribution grid, the design of smart and efficient energy management systems, the usage of energy storage systems, and the achievement of smart grid paradigm development, among others.In order to achieve efficient solutions in this wide energy scenario, over the past few decades, considerable attention has been paid by the academia and industry in order to develop new methods to achieve power systems with maximum harmonic performance aiming for two main targets. On the one hand, the high-performance harmonic performance of power systems would lead to improvements in their power density, size and weight. This becomes critical in applications such as aerospace or electric mobility, where the power converters are on-board systems. On the other hand, current standards are becoming more and more strict in order to reduce the EMI and EMC noise, as well as meeting minimum power quality requirements (i.e., grid code standards for grid-tied power systems).

Technology: general issues --- Energy industries & utilities --- multiphase drives --- pulse width modulation --- current harmonics --- effective voltage regulation --- generalized delayed signal cancellation --- harmonic distortion --- power quality --- repetitive controller --- harmonic analysis --- power converters --- pulse-width modulation (PWM) --- frequency-domain model --- voltage-source inverter (VSI) --- closed-loop control --- full electric aircraft (FEA) --- cascaded H-bridge (CHB) --- multi-level inverter --- permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) --- total harmonic distortion (THD) --- pulse-width modulation --- metaheuristic search algorithms

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Visual servoing is a well-known approach to guide robots using visual information. Image processing, robotics, and control theory are combined in order to control the motion of a robot depending on the visual information extracted from the images captured by one or several cameras. With respect to vision issues, a number of issues are currently being addressed by ongoing research, such as the use of different types of image features (or different types of cameras such as RGBD cameras), image processing at high velocity, and convergence properties. As shown in this book, the use of new control schemes allows the system to behave more robustly, efficiently, or compliantly, with fewer delays. Related issues such as optimal and robust approaches, direct control, path tracking, or sensor fusion are also addressed. Additionally, we can currently find visual servoing systems being applied in a number of different domains. This book considers various aspects of visual servoing systems, such as the design of new strategies for their application to parallel robots, mobile manipulators, teleoperation, and the application of this type of control system in new areas.

Technology: general issues --- head-mounted display --- virtual reality --- motion-to-photon latency --- Hydraulic Servo System --- SMCSPO --- Bilateral Control --- Estimated Reaction Force --- Master–Slave Configuration and Nuclear Power Plant --- spray painting robot --- FPAG --- GA --- ACO --- PSO --- TTOI problem --- visual compass --- orientation estimation --- hybrid features --- plane tracking --- vanishing direction --- Manhattan World --- RGB-D camera --- visual servoing --- optimal control --- mobile manipulator --- dynamic control --- fuzzy neural network --- sliding mode control --- picking robot --- parallel robot --- dynamic model --- closed-loop output-error identification --- optical CMM sensor --- image-based visual servoing --- image feature loss --- industrial robots --- switch control --- n/a --- Master-Slave Configuration and Nuclear Power Plant

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A screenshot of some the most rapidly evolving fields in Neonatology and Pediatrics with articles reviewing some metabolic dysregulations as well as non-oncologic diseases that may occur in infancy, childhood, youth. The illustrative material with original photographs and drawings highlighting some pathogenetic concepts are keystones of this book.

interferon signature score --- interferonopathies --- n/a --- rat model --- pulmonary hypertension --- neurological symptoms --- early-onset sarcoidosis --- sialidosis --- sialidosis I --- children --- mediastinitis --- bilirubin encephalopathy --- Blau syndrome --- myocardial dysfunction --- cardiopulmonary bypass --- neuropathology --- bacteremia --- tissue doppler imaging --- HD-OCT --- biostatistics --- continuous insulin infusion system --- infants --- RNFL --- biomarkers --- diagnosis --- somatosensory evoked potential --- Paediatric sarcoidosis --- diabetic retinopathy --- brain damage --- tonsillectomy --- hybrid closed-loop system --- cytopathology --- neuraminidase --- subcutaneous emphysema --- continuous glucose monitor --- respiratory syncytial virus --- data sharing --- complication --- lysosomal storage disease --- echocardiography --- ONH --- systemic lupus erythematosus --- NT-proBNP --- preterm brain --- head and neck --- inter-laboratory variability --- GSH --- insulin pump --- high-risk sarcoidosis --- type 1 diabetes --- hypoxia-ischemia --- Tei index --- sialidosis II --- mediastinal emphysema --- newborn --- diabetes technology --- diagnostics --- lysosomal exocytosis --- kernicterus --- cerebral palsy --- choroidal thickness --- oxidative stress --- Children --- Pediatrics. --- Diseases. --- Paediatrics --- Pediatric medicine --- Medicine --- Childhood diseases --- Children's diseases --- Diseases of children --- Juvenile diseases --- Pediatrics --- Diseases --- Health and hygiene

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In this Special Issue on “Human Health Engineering Volume II”, we invited submissions exploring recent contributions to the field of human health engineering, i.e., technology for monitoring the physical or mental health status of individuals in a variety of applications. Contributions could focus on sensors, wearable hardware, algorithms, or integrated monitoring systems. We organized the different papers according to their contributions to the main parts of the monitoring and control engineering scheme applied to human health applications, namely papers focusing on measuring/sensing physiological variables, papers highlighting health-monitoring applications, and examples of control and process management applications for human health. In comparison to biomedical engineering, we envision that the field of human health engineering will also cover applications for healthy humans (e.g., sports, sleep, and stress), and thus not only contribute to the development of technology for curing patients or supporting chronically ill people, but also to more general disease prevention and optimization of human well-being.

Technology: general issues --- vibratory stimulation device --- local muscle vibration --- proprioceptors --- low back pain --- response frequency --- postural control --- Vater-Pacini corpuscles --- electroencephalography --- deep learning --- driving fatigue --- feature extraction --- convolutional neural network --- rehabilitation --- robotics --- technological devices --- upper limb impairment --- organizational model --- inkjet printing --- respiratory rate --- strain gauge --- stretchable and wearable sensors --- silver nanoparticles --- clinical evaluation --- body posture --- upper limb rehabilitation --- serious games --- haptic feedback --- electromyography sensors --- virtual reality --- smoothness --- wearable sensors --- gait analysis --- stumbling --- plantar visualization --- remote fetal monitor --- measurement uncertainty --- standard deviation --- Monte-Carlo method (MMC) --- efficient estimator --- automated assessment --- UE-FMA --- pinch force --- pulling force --- slip onset --- stroke --- anorexia nervosa --- electrodermal activity --- time-domain analysis --- frequency-domain analysis --- nonlinear analysis --- virtual reality exposure therapy --- driving phobia --- post-traumatic stress disorder --- physiological signal --- piezo-fluid-structural coupled simulation --- APS --- valveless micropump --- closed-loop insulin pump --- Individual verification --- Electrocardiogram (ECG) --- Interval based LDA --- biometrics --- n/a