Sustainable development is a means of meeting present needs in ways that do not impair future generations and other species from meeting their needs....

This book presents basic design theories and principles and provides detailed analysis for excavation failure cases based on the author's...

Ecosystem services refer to the benefits that human beings get from the ecosystem. With the publication of research results from Costanza, Daily and...

This book introduces the latest advances in modular robotics, and presents a unified geometric framework for modeling, analysis, and design of...

This book presents a study on the novel concept of“event-triggered control of nonlinear systems subject to disturbances”, discussing the...