Kategoria BISAC: Technology & Engineering >> Civil - Highway & Traffic

This book presents an overview of artificial intelligence (AI) in the automotive section, especially in the modern era of green energy-based electrification of vehicles and smart transportation systems. The book also discusses different Internet of Things aspects involved in the automotive domain with AI. The book presents autonomous driving systems, advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), autonomy, AI involvement, and machine learning techniques with challenges in electrification, prognostics, and diagnostics. AI and IoT are two emerging technologies, and their importance in other...

This book offers a concise, yet comprehensive introduction to the engineering and other principles behind passenger cruise ships. It covers all the important regulations concerning cruise ship design and operation, as well as safety, stability, and environmental aspects. It describes principles of cruise ship hydrodynamics, structures, power plant and propulsion, as well as relevant machinery and control system. Further, it deals with key cruise ship hotel systems, such as air conditioning, freshwater, firefighting, garbage, wastewater and communication systems, and many more. Written in a...

This book proposes promising mmWave solutions to promoting safe and reliable vehicular communications. The authors include topics such as channel estimation, multi-user transceiver design, and advanced index modulation. For channel estimation, unique channel properties and hybrid structures are first introduced, followed by the development of a doubly-sparse doubly-selective channel estimator. For multi-user transceiver design, the concept of hybrid block diagonalization (HBD) is first introduced, followed by a generic HBD-based transceiver design to maximize the system capacity. For...

This book reports on cutting-edge research and advances in the field of intelligent vehicle systems. It presents a broad range of AI-enabled technologies, with a focus on automated, autonomous and connected vehicle systems.  It covers advanced machine learning technologies, including deep and reinforcement learning algorithms, transfer learning and learning from big data, as well as control theory applied to mobility and vehicle systems. Furthermore, it reports on cutting-edge technologies for environmental perception and vehicle-to-everything (V2X), discussing socioeconomic and...

This book discusses the application of different machine learning techniques to the sub-concepts of smart cities such as smart energy, transportation, waste management, health, infrastructure, etc. The focus of this book is to come up with innovative solutions in the above-mentioned issues with the purpose of alleviating the pressing needs of human society. This book includes content with practical examples which are easy to understand for readers. It also covers a multi-disciplinary field and, consequently, it benefits a wide readership including academics, researchers, and...

This book provides practical guidance and awareness for a growing body of knowledge developing across a variety of disciplines. This initiative is a celebration of the Gavriel Salvendy International Symposium (GSIS) and provides a survey of topics and emerging areas of interest in human–automation interaction.  This set of articles for the GSIS emphasizes a main thematic area: transportation.  Main areas of coverage include Section A: Interaction with Vehicle Automation; Section B: HCI in Automated Vehicles; Section C: Trust in Vehicle Automation; Section D: Physical Modeling...

This book provides fundamental principles of intelligent transport systems with comprehensive insight and state of the art of vehicles, vehicular technology, connecting vehicles, and intelligent vehicles/autonomous intelligent vehicles. The book discusses different approaches for multiple sensor-based multiple-objects tracking, in addition to blockchain-based solutions for building tamper-proof sensing devices. It introduces various algorithms for security, privacy, and trust for intelligent vehicles. This book countermeasures all the drawbacks and provides useful information to students,...