Linear Feedback Controls -- The Essentials
Second Edition 2020

Elsevier, 2020. ISBN: 978-0-1281-8778-4 The second edition maintains the short and to-the-point concept of the essentials (see First Edition further down): A book on feedback controls that has fewer than 1000 pages! Feedback Controls -- The Essentials covers mathematical modeling, analysis and deisgn of linear feedback controls. This book is intended to be a concise overview with few, but relevant, examples that guide the reader throughout the book. The Essentials covers key concepts (time-domain and frequency-domain methods), but is intentionally brief on other concepts. This book consistently juxtaposes continuous and time-discrete controls, thus paving the way to understanding digital control systems A whole chapter is dedicated to typical applications to provide a link between theory and practice. In the second edition, this chapter has been significantly expanded and now includes start-to-end design examples. Those are selected applications in which a full control solution complete with circuit schematics and measured signals is provided. Applications and designs examples include temperature, speed and position control, unstable systems (inverted pendulum), phase-locked loops, oscillators, and audio amplifiers. If applicable, the continuous examples are complemented by their digital counterparts, e.g., oscillators and direct digital synthesis, DC motors and step motors, analog audio and class-D (digital) audio amplifiers. New chapters on state-space models, robustness, and design of control systems The book features one of the most comprehensive Laplace-domain correspondence tables available. Get table of contents Link to publisher's web site Linear Feedback Controls at Amazon

Medical Imaging Technology

SpringerBriefs in Physics, 2013. ISBN: 978-1-4614-7072-4 Comprehensive overview of medical imaging modalities in a concise, short-format book. Covers phsical principles, contrast generation, data collection, and image formation for x-ray imaging, x-ray computed tomography, nuclear imaging, magnetic resonance imaging, and ultrasound imaging. A separate chapter outlines current developments and trends in medical imaging Provides detailed exposure to the basic mathematical methods for image reconstruction -- this book is intended to provide an "open box" view of the imaging modalities. Get table of contents Link to publisher's web site Medical Imaging Technology at Amazon

Advanced Biomedical Image Analysis

John Wiley & Sons, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-470-62458-6 This book complements many excellent image processing books (such as the books by John C. Russ or Geoff Dougherty) by focusing on advanced image processing methods. Advanced methods include, for example, the wavelet transform and wavelet-based filters, adaptive filters, apparent fractal properties in images, shape and texture description, the Hough transform, and active contours. Specialized chapters cover image compression, image registration and image visualization in a short and concise fashion Key methods are accompanied by algorithm examples in pseudocode to allow easy translation of the concepts into practice The book comes with a live DVD with the Kubuntu operating system and my own Crystal Image image processing and analysis package If I ever, as a graduate student, had been able to wish for one book, this would have been it! Get table of contents Link to publisher's web site Advanced Biomedical Image Analysis at Amazon

Linear Feedback Controls -- The Essentials
First edition, 2013

This record is for informational purposes, see second edition above. Elsevier Insights Series, 2013. ISBN: 978-0-124-05875-0 Finally a book on feedback controls that has fewer than 1000 pages! Feedback Controls -- The Essentials covers mathematical modeling, analysis and deisgn of linear feedback controls. This book is intended to be a concise overview with few, but relevant, examples that guide the reader throughout the book. The Essentials covers key concepts (time-domain and frequency-domain methods), but is intentionally brief on other concepts. One example are state-space models. The idea is that state-space models are an alternative model that conveys the same information as higher-order s-polynomials. This book consistently juxtaposes continuous and time-discrete controls, thus paving the way to understanding digital control systems A whole chapter is dedicated to typical applications. This chapter provides a link between theory and practice. Applications and designs examples include temperature, speed and position control, unstable systems (inverted pendulum), phase-locked loops, oscillators, and audio amplifiers. The book features one of the most comprehensive Laplace-domain correspondence tables available. Get table of contents Link to publisher's web site Linear Feedback Controls at Amazon