This book brings together novel concepts in machine vision, computer graphics, and threedimensional modelling, in solving real practical inspection problems. Automated inspection of three-dimensional shape and the analysis of both two- and three-dimensional surface defects and texture patterns, represents one of the most
challenging and rapidly developing applications for machine vision today.

CONTENTS INCLUDE:

• Introduction
• Automated surface inspection
• An alternative surface description
• Photoclinometry
• Reconstruction of...

Published as part of the highly successful Engineering Research Series, A Knowledge-Based System for Powder Metallurgy Technology not only looks at the latest advances in powder metallurgy, but also presents a methodology that offers a means to preserve critical process-related know-how. The author makes this practical information easily accessible to design engineers so that they can take advantage of the opportunities that powder metallurgy offers.

The knowledge-based system aims to simulate the capability of human experts in solving design, materials, and process...

An -Engineering Research Series- title. Valve wear and its effect upon engine performance still presents a major
challenge to the tribologist. Although new valve materials and production techniques are constantly being developed, these advances have been outpaced by demands for increased engine performance. The drive for reduced oil consumption and exhaust emissions, use of
lead-replacement and low-sulphur fuels, and the introduction of alternative fuels such as gas all have implications for valve and seat insert wear.

Automotive Engine Valve Recession aims to...

An important title in the 'Engineering Research Series', Strategies for Collective Minimalist Mobile Robots presents research on one of the most exciting areas of technology associated with robotics - co-ordinated teams, or groups, of tiny robots. These act colonially and behave as a body, or collect data individually, to feed information to a single data retrieval point, offering a network of information.

Intercommunication between many tiny robots allows for problem areas to be detected and concentrated upon, bringing the pack of robots together.

The developments and...

An -Engineering Research Series- title. This excellent and long awaited book is based upon extensive research carried out by the Institute of Tribology at the University of Leeds in the UK and the Ford Motor Company Ltd. It is concerned with both the theoretical and experimental study of the tribological performance of an automobile valve train, having an offset taper cam and a domed follower, incorporated with an hydraulic lash adjuster, with particular reference to the ZETA engine valve train.

A sophisticated theoretical model has been developed that predicts the tribological performance...