Editor: Max Suell Dutra

Series Title: Mechatronics Series 1

Intelligent Transportation Vehicles

eBook: US $44 Special Offer (PDF + Printed Copy): US $153
Printed Copy: US $131
Library License: US $176
ISSN: 1879-4483 (Online)
ISBN: 978-1-60805-543-2 (Print)
ISBN: 978-1-60805-081-9 (Online)
Year of Publication: 2011
DOI: 10.2174/97816080508191110101

Introduction

Mechatronics Series I: Intelligent Transportation Vehicles brings the latest advances and developments in intelligent vehicles to readers on the basis of their significance and quality. Wider dissemination of research developments will stimulate more exchanges and collaborations among the research community and contribute to further advancement of this rapidly growing field. This Ebook series includes key contributions presented by different researchers. These contributions represent a wide coverage of the state-of-the-art and the emerging research directions in intelligent transportation vehicles.

Contributors

Editor(s):
Max Suell Dutra
Mechatronics Systems & Robotics Research Group
Brazil




Co-Editor(s):
Omar Lengerke
Mechatronics & Control Research Group
Colombia




Contributor(s):
Raúl Aquino-Santos
University of Colima
Av. Universidad 333, C.P. 28045, Colima
Colima
México


Marcelo Becker
Mechatronics Lab. – Mobile Robotics Group
EESC – USP, Av. do Trabalhador são-carlense, 400,
São Carlos
SP, 13566-590
Brazil


Glauco A. P. Caurin
Mechatronics Lab. – Mobile Robotics Group
EESC – USP, Av. do Trabalhador são-carlense, 400,
São Carlos
SP, 13566-590
Brazil


Silvia Del-Campo Romero
Researcher, LISITT/UVEG
Valencia
Spain


Max Suell Dutra
Mechatronics Systems & Robotics Research Group – COPPE/UFRJ
Postal Box 68.503 – CEP 21.945-970
Rio de Janeiro
RJ
Brazil


Arthur Edwards-Block
University of Colima
Av. Universidad 333, C.P. 28045
Colima
México


Diolino J. Santos Filho
Department of Mechatronics Engineering and Mechanics Systems
University of São Paulo
São Paulo
Brazil


Felipe Maia Galvão França
System Engineering and Computer Science Program
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro – COPPE/UFRJ
Brazil


Alejandro Galaviz-Mosqueda
CICESE, Research Centre
Carr. Tijuana-Ensenada #3918, Ensenada, B. C.
México


Jorge P. M. Galdames
Mechatronics Lab. – Mobile Robotics Group
EESC – USP, Av. do Trabalhador são-carlense, 400
São Carlos
SP, 13566-590
Brazil


Omar Lengerke
Mechatronics Systems & Robotics Research Group – COPPE/UFRJ
Postal Box 68.503 – CEP 21.945-970 – Rio de Janeiro, RJ
Brazil
/
Autonomous University of Bucaramanga – UNAB
Colombia


Juan José Martínez Durá
Director, LISITT/UVEG
Valencia
Spain


Edgar A. Martínez-García
Department of Industrial Engineering and Manufacture Robotics Laboratory
Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, Institute of Engineering and Technology
Chihuahua
México


Marco Antonio Meggiolaro
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro
RJ, 22451-900
Brazil


Paulo E. Miyag
Department of Mechatronics Engineering and Mechanics Systems
University of São Paulo
Brazil


Francisco Y. Nakamoto
Department of Mechatronics Engineering and Mechanics Systems
University of São Paulo
Brazil


Luis Manuel Ortiz Buenrostro
National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
Mexico, D.F.


Thales B. Pasqual
Mechatronics Lab. – Mobile Robotics Group
EESC – USP, Av. do Trabalhador são-carlense, 400
São Carlos
SP, 13566-590
Brazil


Víctor Rangel-Licea
National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)



D.F. Mexico
Samper Zapater, José Javier, Researcher, LISITT/UVEG
Valencia
Spain


Vivek Anand Sujan
Advanced Control Division, Cummins Engine Company
Columbus
IN, 47201
USA


Magda J.M. Tavera
Mechatronics Systems & Robotics Research Group – COPPE/UFRJ
Postal Box 68.503 – CEP 21.945-970
Rio de Janeiro
RJ
Brazil


Rafael Torres Córdova
Department of Industrial Engineering and Manufacture Robotics Laboratory
Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, Institute of Engineering and Technology
Chihuahua
México


David Torres Garrigós
Researcher, LISITT/UVEG
Valencia
Spain


Luis A. Villaseñor-González
CICESE, Research Centre, Carr. Tijuana-Ensenada #3918, Ensenada, B. C.,
Chihuahua
México


Kelen C. T. Vivaldini
Mechatronics Lab. – Mobile Robotics Group
ESC – USP, Av. do Trabalhador são-carlense, 400
São Carlos
SP, 13566-590
Brazil


Fabrício Junqueira
Department of Mechatronics Engineering and Mechanics Systems
University of São Paulo
Brazil




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