The technology of power electronics has gone through rapid technological advancement during the last four decades, and recently, its applications are fast expanding in industrial, commercial, residential, military and utility environments. In the global industrial automation, energy conservation and environmental pollution control trends of the 21st century, the widespread impact of power elect...

The authors gives his view on the IEEE Industrial electronics society and its history. He reviews articles published in Transactions Electronics their applicability multidisciplinary area of industrial electronics.

A tutorial account of variable structure control with sliding mode is presented in this paper. The purpose is to introduce in a concise manner the fundamental theory, main results, and practical applications of this powerful control system design approach. This approach is particularly attractive for the control of nonlinear systems. Prominent characteristics such as invariance, robustness, ord...

Even though the market size is still small at this moment, applications of robots are gradually spreading out from the manufacturing industrial environment to face other important challenges, like the support of an aging society and to educate the new generations. The development of human-friendly robots drives research that aims at autonomous or semi-autonomous robots that are natural and intu...

Data mining is the process of discovering correlations, patterns, trends or relationships by searching through a large amount of data stored in repositories, corporate databases, and data warehouses. Industrial procedures with the help of engineers, managers, and other specialists, comprise a broad field and have many tools and techniques in their problem-solving arsenal. The purpose of this st...

For some three decades, isotopes have found steadily increasing application in our scientifictechnical world. The extent and the variability of these applications are probably not known to the majority of the people. Actually there are only few areas in scientific research, agriculture, medicine and industrial production which have not benefitted in one way or another from these modern and vers...

process mediated by or involving microorganisms in which a product of economic value is obtained is called fermentation (Casida, Jr., 1968). The terms industrial microbiology and fermentation are virtually synonymous in their scope, objectives and activities. The microbial product may be microbial cells (living or dead), microbial biomass, and components of microbial cells, intracellular or ext...