Tag: Autonomous

Lens Design Automatic and Quasi-Autonomous Computational Methods and Techniques (IPH001)


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2018 | 400 Pages | ISBN: 0750316098 | PDF | 15 MB
Lens Design: Automatic and quasi-autonomous computational methods and techniques is the firstbook that interactively describes the newest lens design tools. Detailing design methods for a variety of lens forms, this book shows that fixed focus and zoom lenses can be optimized. It will help experienced and aspiring lens designers to develop excellent designs henceforth.

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Autonomous Vessels in Maritime Affairs Law and Governance Implications


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English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031247396 | 553 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 10 MB
This first-of-its-kind incisive and interdisciplinary volume spears through law and governance implications in relation to maritime autonomous surface ships (MASS). The book focuses on a wide array of timely, topical and thorny issues under eight distinct parts: setting the scene; naval warfare and security; safety, seaworthiness and techno-regulatory assessments; global environmental change; autonomous passenger transportation; liability and insurance; selected national and regional developments; and tying the threads. Thus, the main themes will stress on topics including evolution, environment, safety and security, society, insurance, liability, human element, design solutions and procedures, and selected national case studies. At the outset, the book commences with an insight into the role of innovation-diplomacy as the driving force that could expedite the transition from autonomation to autonomy, and a commentary from the Chair of IMO’s MASS. After navigating through the complex law and governance landscape, the book concludes with a chapter that captures the essence of the paradigm shift and ties all critical findings for further consideration.

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Autonomous Nuclear Power Plants with Artificial Intelligence


Autonomous Nuclear Power Plants with Artificial Intelligence
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031223853 | 444 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 54 MB
Autonomous nuclear power plants with artificial intelligence presents a framework to enable nuclear power plants to autonomously operate and introduces artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to implement its functions. Although nuclear power plants are already highly automated to reduce human errors and guarantee the reliability of system operations, the term "autonomous" is still not popular because AI techniques are regarded as less proven technologies. However, the use of AI techniques and the autonomous operation seems unavoidable because of their great advantages, especially, in advanced reactors and small modular reactors.

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Advanced Model Predictive Control for Autonomous Marine Vehicles


Advanced Model Predictive Control for Autonomous Marine Vehicles
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031193539 | 356 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 30 MB
This book provides a comprehensive overview of marine control system design related to underwater robotics applications. In particular, it presents novel optimization-based model predictive control strategies to solve control problems appearing in autonomous underwater vehicle applications. These novel approaches bring unique features, such as constraint handling, prioritization between multiple design objectives, optimal control performance, and robustness against disturbances and uncertainties, into the control system design. They therefore form a more general framework to design marine control systems and can be widely applied.

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The Legality and Accountability of Autonomous Weapon Systems A Humanitarian Law Perspective


Afonso Seixas-Nunes, "The Legality and Accountability of Autonomous Weapon Systems: A Humanitarian Law Perspective"
English | ISBN: 1316514838 | 2022 | 304 pages | PDF | 2 MB
By adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the legality of the use of autonomous weapons systems under international law. It examines different arguments presented by States, roboticists and scholars to demonstrate the challenges such systems will create for the laws of war. This study examines how technology of warfare seeks to increase the dissociation of risk and communication between weapons and their human operators. Furthermore, it explains how algorithms might give rise to ‘errors’ on the battlefield that cannot be directly attributed to human operators. Against this backdrop, Dr Seixas-Nunes examines three distinct legal frameworks: the distinction between the legality of weapons and the laws of targeting; different mechanisms of individual accountability and the importance of recovering the category of ‘dolus eventualis’ for programmers and technicians and, finally, State responsibility for violations of the laws of war caused by weapons’ software errors.

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