Selig J.M. Introductory robotics

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...

(Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics), 2006, 209 pages. This unique reference represents a cross-section of forefront robotics research, ranging from robotics and systems to learning, autonomy and failure detection, from vision and navigation to localization and mapping, which are based on the papers presented at the 1st European Robotics Symposium (EUROS-06) held in Palermo, Italy from 16-18 March, 2006. The European Robotics Symposium (EUROS)...

Springer, 2007. - 693 pages. Theory of Applied Robotics: Kinematics, Dynamics, and Control is appropriate for courses in robotics that emphasize kinematics, dynamics, and control. The contents of this book are presented at a theoretical-practical level. It explains robotics concepts in detail, concentrating on their practical use. Related theorems and formal proofs are provided, as are real-life applications. Students, researchers, and practic...

The 10th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics), 2008, 566 pages. This is a series of bi-annual meetings which are organized in a rotating fashion around North America, Europe and Asia/Oceania. Its goal is to provide a forum for research in robotics that focuses on novelty of theoretical contributions validated by experimental results. The meetings are conceived to bring together, in a small group...

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...

Contents: 1 Introduction 2 Robotic Vehicles 3 Space Robotics 4 Humanoids 5 Industrial, Personal, and Service Robots 6 Robotics for Biological and Medical Applications 7 Networked Robots

Springer (Monographs in Computer Science); 2nd edition 398 pages. Geometric Fundamentals of Robotics provides an elegant introduction to the geometric concepts that are important to applications in robotics. This second edition is still unique in providing a deep understanding of the subject: rather than focusing on computational results in kinematics and robotics, it includes significant state-of-the art material that reflects important advances...

This is the classic text on robot manipulators, now covers visual control, motion planning and mobile robots too! "Robotics" provides the basic know-how on the foundations of robotics: modelling, planning and control. The text develops around a core of consistent and rigorous formalism with fundamental and technological material giving rise naturally and with gradually increasing difficulty to more advanced considerations. The theory of manipulat...

World Scientific (Series in Robotics and Intelligent Systems), 2006, 268 pages. This invaluable book comprehensively describes evolutionary robotics and computational intelligence, and how different computational intelligence techniques are applied to robotic system design. It embraces the most widely used evolutionary approaches with their merits and drawbacks, presents some related experiments for robotic behavior evolution and the results achi...

McGraw-Hill Professional, 2005. - 333 pages. There's no easier, faster, or more practical way to learn the really tough subjects. McGraw-Hill's Demystified titles are the most efficient, interestingly written, brush-ups you can find. Organized as self-teaching guides, they come complete with key points, background information, questions at the end of each chapter, and even final exams. You'll be able to learn more in less time, evaluate your st...