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Written by one of the field's leading experts, this landmark reference presents a thorough system analysis of the fiber-optic gyroscope (FOG), describing the concepts that have emerged as the preferred solutions for obtaining a practical device.This book's first edition was published in the early 1990's. If the basic design rules of the FOG have remained unchanged, the technology has certainly matured, and the expectations presented in the first edition have been largely exceeded. This second edition is updated throughout, featuring new content on Allan variance; testing with optical coherence domain polarimetry; the Shupe effect; and rare-Earth doped fiber ASE sources. In addition, brand new comprehensive appendixes cover the optics, single-mode fiber optics, and integrated optics necessary to understand the fiber gyro and provide an appropriate vocabulary for communicating with electronic component designers.

Phased Array Antenna Handbook provides new material on array and multibeam antennas and systems, including new methods, devices and machine learning techniques.

Since the second edition of this book was published in 1996, planar transmission line technology has progressed considerably due to developments in ultrawideband (UWB) communications, imaging, and RFID applications. In addition, the simultaneous demands for compactness of wireless electronic devices while meeting improved performance requirements, necessitates increased use of computer-aided design, simulation, and analysis by microwave engineers. This book is written to help engineers successfully meet these challenges.Details include the development of governing equations, basis functions, Green's function and typical results. More than 1200 equations supplement the text. Special attention is given to the use of simulation software in the design of complex devices and understanding the connection between data collected from simulation software and the actual design process.The book is primarily intended for microwave design engineers and RD specialists who need to employ planar transmission lines in designing distributed circuits and antenna systems for a wide range of wireless applications. Advanced undergraduate and graduate students in electronics and telecommunication engineering will also welcome this addition to your library.

The book provides practitioners and researchers with a complete overview of the latest and most important non-invasive and non-destructive techniques for inspecting structures and bodies by using microwaves.

\"Big Data\" is on the covers ofScience, Nature, theEconomist, andWiredmagazines, on the front pages of theWall Street Journaland theNew York Times.But despite the media hyperbole, as Christine Borgman points out in this examination of data and scholarly research, having the right data is usually better than having more data; little data can be just as valuable as big data. In many cases, there are no data -- because relevant data don't exist, cannot be found, or are not available. Moreover, data sharing is difficult, incentives to do so are minimal, and data practices vary widely across disciplines.Borgman, an often-cited authority on scholarly communication, argues that data have no value or meaning in isolation; they exist within a knowledge infrastructure -- an ecology of people, practices, technologies, institutions, material objects, and relationships. After laying out the premises of her investigation -- six \"provocations\" meant to inspire discussion about the uses of data in scholarship -- Borgman offers case studies of data practices in the sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities, and then considers the implications of her findings for scholarly practice and research policy. To manage and exploit data over the long term, Borgman argues, requires massive investment in knowledge infrastructures; at stake is the future of scholarship.

<p><b>Examines numerical and semi&#45;analytical methods for differential equations that can be used for solving practical ODEs and PDEs</b> <p>This student&#45;friendly book deals with various approaches for solving differential equations numerically or semi&#45;analytically depending on the type of equations and offers simple example problems to help readers along. <p>Featuring both traditional and recent methods, <i>Advanced Numerical and Semi&#45;Analytical Methods for Differential Equations</i> begins with a review of basic numerical methods. It then looks at Laplace, Fourier, and weighted residual methods for solving differential equations. A new challenging method of Boundary Characteristics Orthogonal Polynomials &#40;BCOPs&#41; is introduced next. The book then discusses Finite Difference Method &#40;FDM&#41;, Finite Element Method &#40;FEM&#41;, Finite Volume Method &#40;FVM&#41;, and Boundary Element Method &#40;BEM&#41;. Following that, analytical/semi<i>&#45;</i>analytic methods like Akbari Ganji&#39;s Method &#40;AGM&#41; and Exp&#45;function are used to solve nonlinear differential equations. Nonlinear differential equations using semi&#45;analytical methods are also addressed, namely Adomian Decomposition Method &#40;ADM&#41;, Homotopy Perturbation Method &#40;HPM&#41;, Variational Iteration Method &#40;VIM&#41;, and Homotopy Analysis Method &#40;HAM&#41;. Other topics covered include: emerging areas of research related to the solution of differential equations based on differential quadrature and wavelet approach; combined and hybrid methods for solving differential equations; as well as an overview of fractal differential equations. Further, uncertainty in term of intervals and fuzzy numbers have also been included, along with the interval finite element method. This book: <ul> <li>Discusses various methods for solving linear and nonlinear ODEs and PDEs</li> <li>Covers basic numerical techniques for solving differential equations along with various discretization methods</li> <li>Investigates nonlinear differential equations using semi&#45;analytical methods</li> <li>Examines differential equations in an uncertain environment</li> <li>Includes a new scenario in which uncertainty &#40;in term of intervals and fuzzy numbers&#41; has been included in differential equations</li> <li>Contains solved example problems, as well as some unsolved problems for self&#45;validation of the topics covered</li> </ul> <p><i>Advanced Numerical and Semi&#45;Analytical Methods for Differential Equations</i> is an excellent textbook for graduate as well as post graduate students and researchers studying various methods for solving differential equations, numerically and semi&#45;analytically.

This cutting-edge resource introduces the basic concepts of passive bistatic radar, such as bistatic geometry, bistatic radar equation and analysis of different illuminating signals. These techniques, although known for almost a century, have not been developed intensively for decades, mainly due to technical limitations, but today, the passive radar concept can be realized in practice, and is of great interest for military and civilian users. This book provides insight into understanding the potential and limitations of passive radar systems, as well as the differences between signal processing in active and passive radar. Each of the signal processing stages typically applied in passive radar is described, including digital beamforming, clutter removal, target detection, localization and tracking. These concepts are illustrated with both simulated and measured data along with examples of passive radar systems.Correlation processing, which is crucial for passive radar operation, is presented, as well as practical approaches for calculating the cross-ambiguity function. The problems of range and velocity-cell migration are also introduced. The book analyzes and compares different antenna array geometries to show readers the appropriate solution for a particular scenario of passive radar. Cartesian tracking is also presented, based on the extended Kalman filter. Parallel and sequential updating approaches are introduced and compared. These concepts are illustrated with both simulated and measured data along with examples of passive radar systems, making this book useful for both novice and advanced practitioners.

This book develops a general analysis and synthesis framework for impulsive and hybrid dynamical systems. Such a framework is imperative for modern complex engineering systems that involve interacting continuous-time and discrete-time dynamics with multiple modes of operation that place stringent demands on controller design and require implementation of increasing complexity--whether advanced high-performance tactical fighter aircraft and space vehicles, variable-cycle gas turbine engines, or air and ground transportation systems. Impulsive and Hybrid Dynamical Systems goes beyond similar treatments by developing invariant set stability theorems, partial stability, Lagrange stability, boundedness, ultimate boundedness, dissipativity theory, vector dissipativity theory, energy-based hybrid control, optimal control, disturbance rejection control, and robust control for nonlinear impulsive and hybrid dynamical systems. A major contribution to mathematical system theory and control system theory, this book is written from a system-theoretic point of view with the highest standards of exposition and rigor. It is intended for graduate students, researchers, and practitioners of engineering and applied mathematics as well as computer scientists, physicists, and other scientists who seek a fundamental understanding of the rich dynamical behavior of impulsive and hybrid dynamical systems.