**Meet the editor**

Kelly Bennett is currently a research engineer at the Army Research Laboratory. His diverse background includes semiconductor processing and design, RF circuit design, Ferroelectric thin film basic research for non-volatile memory applications, radiation hardening of electronics, acousto-optics research in spectroscopy and imaging applications, and database design and

development. He has worked for the Army Research Laboratory for over 29 years as a research engineer and scientist and has over 40 professional publications in the open literature, many of which focus on the performance issues of big data in computational environments such as MATLAB. His expertise as an IT professional includes professional certification in JAVA development and enterprise development as well as fluency in many object-based, object-orientated, and SQL languages.

Contents

**Preface IX**

**Section 1 Social Networking Applications 1**

Chapter 2 **A MATLAB-based Microscope 47** Milton P. Macedo

**Generator 103**

Kelly Bennett and James Robertson

**Section 2 Control, System, and Design Applications 45**

Melchor and J. A. Álvarez-Cedillo

Chapter 5 **Design of Fractionation Columns 139** Hassan Al-Haj Ibrahim

**Section 3 Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis 173**

**Microcontroller 175** Mostefa Ghassoul

Chapter 6 **Remotely Train Control with the Aid of PIC32**

Chapter 1 **Knowledge Discovery and Information Extraction on the Open**

Chapter 3 **Obstacle Avoidance Task for a Wheeled Mobile Robot – A Matlab-Simulink-Based Didactic Application 79**

Chapter 4 **Dual Heuristic Neural Programming Controller for Synchronous**

Mato Miskovic, Ivan Miskovic and Marija Mirosevic

**Internet Using MATLAB and Amazon Web Services (AWS) 3**

R. Silva-Ortigoza, C. Márquez-Sánchez, F. Carrizosa-Corral, V. M. Hernández-Guzmán, J. R. García-Sánchez, H. Taud, M. Marciano-
