Artech House
Autonomous ground vehicles.
The autonomous vehicles anticipated to be on the roads in the near future are expected to give drivers previously unseen safety and performance assistance features, such as intersection accident warnings, safer lane changing and merging assistance, parking assistance, and other collision avoidance technologies. This reference is intended to give professionals in the discipline an understanding of the relevant technologies that will allow vehicles to make decisions in response to traffic situations without input from the driver, including autonomous control and feedback methods that will be used to give drivers more help than ever before in their efforts to drive safely and avoid potential traffic accident conditions. The authors address system architecture; sensors, estimation, and sensor fusion; examples of autonomy; maps and path planning; and vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication. Authors are Özgüner (electrical and computer engineering, The Ohio State U.), Acarman (computer engineering, Galatasaray U, Turkey), and Redmill (research scientist, The Ohio State U.). (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Biometrics in identity management; concepts to applications.
Modi, a biometrics technology specialist experienced in applied research and standards development, provides an extensive exploration of commercially available technologies used in identity management (IdM), the processes far beyond passwords and other identifiers typically used to confirm an individual's identity in what has become an increasingly complex digital world. Chapters cover topics such as technical evaluation fundamentals, fingerprint and face recognition, iris and hand geometry recognition, speaker and vascular recognition, dynamic signature verification, biometric standards and testing, designing and deploying biometric systems, security and privacy issues in biometric applications. Essentially, the author's intent is to bring research and actual practice together. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Enterprise release management; agile delivery of a strategic change portfolio.
Taborda, an international consultant on business and information technology concerns, states in his preface that "This book aims to identify the root causes of the problems executing strategic programs and presents a remedy we term enterprise release management (ERM) — a release-centric management framework for reliably delivering strategic outcomes." His expected audience includes business and IT executives, portfolio managers, program and project managers, enterprise and solution architects, IT and technology managers, and testers and delivery managers. Discussion includes the evolving enterprise, embracing change and complexity, and release-centric planning, design, and practice. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Introduction to nanorobotic manipulation and assembly.
Electrical and computer engineers Xi (Michigan State U.) and Li (U. of Pittsburgh) report results from research into nano-robotic manipulation conducted by the Robotics and Automation Laboratory at Michigan State University. The idea is to build nanometer-scale robots to manipulate matter in nanotechnology. The topics include microscopic force analysis in nano-manipulation, actuation methods for nano robotic manipulation and assembly, reducing atomic-scale stick-slip motion by feedback control in nano-manipulation, a stochastic approach for feature-based localization and planning, sensor-referenced real-time visual feedback in nano-robotic manipulation and assembly, and robotic manipulations of biological objects. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
LTE air interface protocols.
Kawser (electrical and electronic engineering, Islamic U. of Technology, Bangladesh) explains the air interface protocols of the emerging mobile communications platform long-term evolution (LTE) in simple and plain English to make them easy to remember by technicians devising or working with current and future networks. His topics include physical layer properties, packet data convergence protocol, synchronization, discontinuous reception, tracking area update, and the public warning system. He covers Release 8 and to some extent Release 9, but only LTE FDD (frequency division duplex) and hopes to incorporate LTE TDD (time division duplex) in subsequent editions. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
Satellite communications; network design and analysis.
An electronics engineer working on satellite communications architecture designs for the US military at Fort Meade, Maryland, Jo introduces systems engineering approaches to modern satellite networks that provide wideband communications services through satellites, Earth stations, terminals, and terrestrial networks. Recent dramatic increases in both the availability of the technology and demand, he says, make it essential to map out feasible ways of providing secure, world-wide, reliable network-centric data service. He assumes readers have a fundamental knowledge of information systems and architectures, telecommunications networks, and telecommunications standards and protocols. Advanced calculus would be nice, but is not required. Some of the material is based on notes for a graduate course he taught at Johns Hopkins University. (Annotation ©2011 Book News Inc. Portland, OR)
