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/fixturing, and focuses on the modeling and applications of
the RGF. Compared with existing publications, this volume
concentrates more on abstract formulation, i.e. mathematical
modeling of robotic grasping and fixturing. Thus, it will be a good
reference text for academic researchers, manufacturing and
industrial engineers and a textbook for engineering graduate
students. The book provides readers an overall picture and
scientific basis of RGF, the comprehensive information and
mathematic models of developing and applying RGF in industry, and
presents long term valuable information which is essential and can
be used by technical professions as a good reference.