Cutkosky M.R. Robotic Grasping and Fine Manipulation

Springer, 2007, 271 pages. This book presents a comprehensive insight into the intelligence and dexterity of robotic multi-fingered hands from both the physical and control- theoretic viewpoints. The book: a) focuses on the problem of how to control dexterous movements of fingers interacting with an object in the execution of everyday tasks; b) clarifies what kinds of sensory-motor coordinated signals are necessary and sufficient for realising st...

Contents Part A Robotics Foundations 1 Kinematics 2 Dynamics 3 Mechanisms and Actuation 4 Sensing and Estimation 5 Motion Planning 6 Motion Control 7 Force Control 8 Robotic Systems Architectures and Programming 9 AI Reasoning Methods for Robotics Part B Robot Structures 10 Performance Evaluation and Design Criteria 11 Kinematically Redundant Manipulators 12 Parallel Mechanisms and Robots 13 Robots with Flexible Elements 14 Model Identi?cation 15...

(Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences), Springer-Verlag , 1998, 177 pages. Complex robotic systems are gaining increasing attention from both the academic community and industrial users. The modelling and control problems for these systems cannot be regarded as simple extensions of those for traditional single manipulators, since additional complexity arises; to accomplish tasks there is the need to ensure co-ordinated motion of the...

Introduction Off-Line Planning, Programming, and Simulation of Intelligent Robotic Systems Virtual Robotic Cells Planning of Robotic Cell Actions Off-Line Planning of Robot Motion CAP/CAM Systems for Robotic Cell Design Event-Based Real-Time Control of Intelligent Robotic Systems Using Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic The Execution Level of Robotic Agent Action The Coordination Level of a Multiagent Robotic System The Organization Level of a Rob...

CRC Press, 2004, 486 pages. The Robotics and Automation Handbook addresses the major aspects of designing, fabricating, and enabling robotics systems and their various applications. The chapters cover the development and implementation of specifications for a robotic system and the issues related to the forces and torques generated on a robotic system. The author presents kinetic and dynamic analyses to demonstrate how a robotic system is analyze...

Springer, 2008. - 472 pages. This book presents the most recent research advances in the theory, design, control and application of robotic systems, which are intended for a variety of purposes such as manipulation, manufacturing, automation, surgery, locomotion and biomechanics. The issues addressed are fundamentally kinematic in nature, including synthesis, calibration, redundancy, force control, dexterity, inverse and forward kinematics, kine...

Two areas of expertise required in the production of industrial and commercial robotics are motor control and obstacle navigation algorithms. This is especially true in the field of autonomous robotic vehicles, and this application will be the focus of this work. This work is divided into two parts. Part I describes the motor types and feedback devices available and the appropriate choice for a given robotics application. This is followed by a de...

Один из самых популярных и интересных учебников по робототехнике. CRC Press, 1st edition, 1994, 480 pages. The book presents a mathematical formulation of the kinematics, dynamics, and control of robot manipulators. It uses an elegant set of mathematical tools that emphasizes the geometry of robot motion and allows a large class of robotic manipulation problems to be analyzed within a unified framework. The foundation of the book is a derivation...

Издательство InTech, 2010, -624 pp. The purpose of robot vision is to enable robots to perceive the external world in order to perform a large range of tasks such as navigation, visual servoing for object tracking and manipulation, object recognition and categorization, surveillance, and higher-level decision making. Among different perceptual modalities, vision is arguably the most important one. It is therefore an essential building block of...

World Scientific (Series on Manufacturing Systems and Technology), 2007, 228 pages. This book provides a fundamental knowledge of robotic grasping and fixturing (RGF) manipulation. For RGF manipulation to become a science rather than an art, the content of the book is uniquely designed for a thorough understanding of the RGF from the multifingered robot hand grasp, basic fixture design principle, and evaluating and planning of robotic grasping/fi...