Priya Mendez

This book describes some devices that are commonly identified as tactile or force sensors.

This book presents both basic and advanced concepts and techniques for the monitoring and control of chemical and biochemical processes. It also covers aspects of the implementation of these different robust techniques. The book offers a balanced view of the theoretical and practical issues of control systems and provides different cases to illustrate the controller and observer design procedures and their dynamic effects in the closed-loop.

This book is an introduction to the dynamics of reaction-diffusion systems, with a focus on fronts and stationary spatial patterns. Emphasis is on systems that are non-standard in the sense that either the transport is not simply classical diffusion (Brownian motion) or the system is not homogeneous. A important feature is the derivation of the basic phenomenological equations from the mesoscopic system properties.

This book describes some devices that are commonly identified as tactile or force sensors. This is achieved with different degrees of detail through the description of different approaches to this type of sensors. This book are more focused on information readout and processing: as materials, micro and sub-micro sensors are available, wireless transmission and processing of the sensorial information, as well as some innovative methodologies for obtaining and interpreting tactile information are also strongly evolving.