In this book, we focus on three research fields that fall within networked robotics in particular, bilateral teleoperation, vision-based control/estimation, and cooperative control/estimation. The goal of this book is to describe a unifying passivity-based approach for the emerging research fields.

Electrical impedance tomography can be used for creating images of impedance changes in continuous tactile sensors such as soft "e-skins" for applications in robotics and human-machine interactions. This book bridges the gap between device-oriented experimentalists and the prior art starting at the level of undergraduate engineering mathematics.

This book was motivated by energy markets, particularly electricity and natural gas markets which have been restructured in recent years in a number of countries. The book provides models and tools to understand the functioning of these markets and to identify appropriate decisions for public and private sector energy market participants.

Traditional AI experts have strong algorithmic ability, but it is difficult to solve industrial systems problems in the absence of experts and domain knowledge. Even if a solution is found, it is often difficult to repeat. The biggest challenge of Industrial AI is to transform human-centric algorithmic thinking into systems engineering. This is a decentralized process, so that the wisdom of each industry expert can be inherited through a systematic approach.

This book provides a systematic and consistent approach to modeling and analyzing a wide range of complex vibrating elastic systems including multiphysics configurations such as inerter attachments, fluid loading, metamaterials, and piezoelectric layers. It presents numerous numerical results so that the effects of system parameters can be determined, and various systems models can be compared.

Reliability engineering and risk analysis are essential branches of science and engineering that enable us to uphold the integrity of engineered systems and the engineering profession. Since engineering designs and processes impose various hazards, risk and reliability analyses are universally important. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to reliability and an overview of risk analysis for engineering students and practicing engineers.

System sustainment is comprised of maintenance, support, and upgrade practices that maintain or improve the performance of a system and maximize the availability of goods and services while minimizing their cost and footprint or, more simply, the capacity of a system to endure. System sustainment is a multi-trillion-dollar enterprise for critical systems associated with infrastructure, defense, transportation, industrial controls, data centers, and energy generation.

It is widely recognized in the applied mathematics community that tools of continuation afford a desirable alternative method of analysis to the more commonly deployed forward-simulation tools that pervade in applied design and optimization. Increasingly, this realization is being appreciated also by those in industry whose products need to accommodate a range of design objectives, while being certifiably safe within a challenging set of performance criteria.