This book is a general introduction to intelligent or smart materials, systems and machines. Presented in understandable and non-mathematical terms, it is for anyone who is interested in future developments in these fields or who needs to be briefed on the current status of these interdisciplinary technologies. The intended audience comprises physicists, engineers, materials scientists and computer scientists of all levels, from undergraduates to post-doctoral practitioners.Contents: The Smart Approach — An Introduction to Smart TechnologiesSensing Systems for Smart StructuresVibration Control Using Smart StructuresData Fusion — The Role of Signal Processing for Smart Structures and SystemsShape Memory Alloys — A Smart Technology?Piezoelectric MaterialsMagnetostrictionSmart Fluid MachinesSmart Biomaterials — “Out-Smarting” the Body's Defence Systems and Other Advances in Materials for MedicineNatural Engineering — The Smart SynergyReadership: Undergraduates and researchers in materials science and engineering, electrical & electronic engineering, systems engineering and aerospace engineering.Key Features:This book discusses some frontiers of Gaussian processes analysis and their associated Wick–Ito formula. For the first time, the studies of fractional Brownian motion is put into the framework of fractional white noise multiplication operatorsSome up-to-date treatment is of the invariance principle of regime-switching diffusion are given in detail