A modern air transportation system can provide strong service capacity to meet the needs of various potential users. To meet the different needs of different users for services, the modern air transport system uses advanced technology, equipment, facilities, operation rules, and procedures, and is managed by well-trained, skilled, and well-educated people.
Aerial robots (ARs) or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) were initially developed for military applications such as surveillance, targeting, and strike missions. As the use of ARs has become more common in other civilian and industrial applications, the need of understanding all the technical elements and systems involved in these aircraft has become more evident for the academic community and th…
The 12th edition of Management Control Systems provides concepts, text, and cases for a course in management control systems. The book is designed to allow students to gain knowledge, insights, and analytical skills related to how a firm's managers go about designing, implementing, and using planning and control systems to implement a firm's strategies. It does not deal extensively with topics …
The automatic camera, the truck suspension, and the automatic production line are examples of a marriage between electronic control systems and mechanical engineering. Such control systems generally use microprocessors as controllers and have electrical sensors extracting information from the mechanical inputs and outputs via electrical actuators to mechanical systems. The term mechatronics is…