Applications-and-Integrations

Applications and Integrations

Book 6 — The Applications & Integrations Core

How to combine the other cores into working systems. Requirements, architecture, modelling, prototyping and documentation; sensors, signal conditioning and data acquisition; embedded, IoT and edge-AI devices; robot arms, mobile robots and drones; PLCs, motor control, industrial networks and functional safety; solar PV, battery energy systems, electric vehicles and microgrids; RF links, practical signal processing and biomedical instrumentation; engineering software, scientific computing, machine learning and digital twins; and seven complete projects ending in a capstone.

This book is project-oriented. It does not repeat the theory of its siblings. Every chapter follows a real engineering system — a vaccine-fridge monitor, a strain-gauge DAQ, a smart radiator valve, a hospital delivery robot, a water-treatment control system, a school PV roof, a delivery-van powertrain, an ambulatory ECG recorder, a transformer-fleet analytics pipeline — through requirements → architecture → design calculations → component selection → implementation → verification → failure analysis, with budgets, real parts, code, test tables with limits and FMEA. The theory each step rests on is cited in one line with a link to the book that owns it: Circuits, Signals and Communications (Book 3), Electronics and Computing (Book 4), Electrical Energy and Machines (Book 5), Engineering Physics, Materials Science and Engineering and The Mathematics Universe.

Read the book as a PDF: pdf/Applications-and-Integrations.pdf or from the latest release · Wiki: chapter guide, figures, tooling

Contents

Part	Chapters
I — Engineering Design Methodology	1 From requirement to working system · 2 System architecture · 3 Modeling and simulation workflow · 4 Prototyping and verification · 5 Engineering documentation
II — Instrumentation and Measurement Systems	6 Sensors and transducers · 7 Measurement and signal conditioning · 8 Data acquisition systems · 9 Instrumentation projects
III — Embedded and Connected Systems	10 Embedded-system integration · 11 IoT systems · 12 Edge computing and embedded AI
IV — Robotics and Mechatronics	13 Robotics fundamentals · 14 Mobile robotics · 15 Robot electronics and control · 16 Drones and aerial robotics · 17 Robotic system integration
V — Industrial Automation	18 Industrial control architecture · 19 Industrial sensors and actuators · 20 Industrial motor control · 21 Industrial communication and safety
VI — Renewable Energy and Electric Mobility	22 Solar PV system design · 23 Battery energy systems · 24 Electric vehicles · 25 Microgrids and hybrid energy systems
VII — Communications, Signal Processing, and Biomedical Applications	26 Communication-system integration · 27 Practical signal processing · 28 Biomedical instrumentation
VIII — Engineering Software and Computational Tools	29 Engineering software workflows · 30 Scientific and engineering computing · 31 Engineering software architecture · 32 AI and machine learning for EEE · 33 Engineering simulation and digital twins
IX — Interdisciplinary Engineering Projects	34 Autonomous line-following robot · 35 Smart energy monitor · 36 Solar battery system · 37 Closed-loop motor drive · 38 Wireless sensor network · 39 Engineering simulation tool · 40 Capstone engineering project

Boundary. This book owns engineering design method, system architecture and integration, component selection, verification and validation, and complete application systems. Circuit, signal, communication and control theory belong to Book 3; devices, circuits, computing, embedded systems and converters to Book 4; machines, drives, power systems and electrical safety to Book 5; physics, materials and mathematics to the foundation books (see TOC.md).

Repository layout

Path	Contents
part-N-*/	one folder per part: README.md is the part opener, NN-*.md are the chapters (Markdown, LaTeX math, code listings in C, C++, Python and IEC 61131-3 Structured Text)
figures/	all figures; each figures/chNN/ folder is generated by figures/scripts/chNN.py
TOC.md	master syllabus, boundaries inside the book and with the other books
CONTRIBUTING.md	house style, including the reference-system rule and how this book integrates its siblings
FIGURES.md	figure plan: every figure, where it goes and what it shows
scripts/	PDF, figure, figure-plan, book-check, social-preview and wiki scripts
docs/	social preview image
.github/	CI and release workflows, issue and pull-request templates
mcp/	an MCP server so Claude and other clients can search, read and typeset the book (README); Claude Code picks it up from .mcp.json
pdf/	the compiled book

Build the PDF

Requires Node.js ≥ 18 and a local Chrome, Edge or Chromium (set CHROME_PATH if it is not found automatically).

npm install

npm run pdf

This writes dist/Applications-and-Integrations.pdf (KaTeX-rendered math, clickable contents, PDF bookmarks). Build selected part openers or chapters with:

node scripts/build-pdf.mjs --parts P6,22,23 --out dist/excerpt.pdf

Figures

Every figure is specified by a <!-- FIGURE ... --> marker at the point it belongs in its chapter and drawn by figures/scripts/chNN.py. Requires Python 3 with numpy, scipy, matplotlib and schemdraw.

Regenerate all figures (or python scripts/build-figures.py ch22 ch35 for some):

npm run figures

Place newly drawn figures below their markers:

node scripts/insert-figures.mjs

Regenerate the figure plan FIGURES.md:

npm run figures:plan

MCP server

claude mcp add applications-integrations -- node /absolute/path/to/this/repo/mcp/server.mjs

Tools: list_contents, read_part, search_book, list_figures, get_figure, build_pdf. See mcp/README.md.

Contributing

Corrections, clearer explanations, better figures and better test data are welcome. Read CONTRIBUTING.md (workflow and house style) and report errors with the Erratum issue template. Everyone taking part follows the Code of Conduct. Security issues in the tooling: see SECURITY.md. Release history: CHANGELOG.md.

CI (.github/workflows/check.yml) checks the sources, the figure plan, the MCP server and every figure script on each push; pushing a v* tag builds the PDF and publishes a release (.github/workflows/release.yml).

Citation and license

To cite the book, use CITATION.cff (GitHub's "Cite this repository" button reads it). Content and code are under the MIT License.