Robotics Books

The role of Automation in the modern world according to Dr. Kongoli is firmly linked with the modern requirement for sustainable development in the 21st century. One of the fundamentals of sustainable development is "Doing More with Less" which is also...

This book includes contributions of prominent researchers and engineers dealing with robotics and its related aspects. In the past few decades, interest in robotics has notably increased which has led to the advancement of theoretical research and...

This book comprises recent researches and advances in the field of smart actuators and sensors. The objective of this book is to sum up all the technical researches regarding smart actuators and sensors. Researches accomplished by experts around the...

Smart actuators and sensors are used in diverse electric applications. This book is a comprehensive summary of recent technical researches in the field of smart actuators and sensors. It is a compilation of researches accomplished by experts from around...

This book provides extensive information regarding the rapidly growing field of robotics. Robotics form an essential part of modern engineering and is associated with various other fields namely mathematics, mechanism design, computer and electric &...

The book provides valuable insight into the application, theory and practice of PID control technology. These tools of PID control are designed for researchers, students of process control, engineers and industry professionals. The book employs different...

This book presents a concise summary of the widespread aspects of various fundamentals and applications of micro mechatronics. The technique of nano mechatronics has widespread applications across multiple spheres like sensors, automobiles and machinery...

The aim of this book is to educate the readers regarding the various design aspects of PID controllers. The design of PID controllers were first introduced in the market in 1939 and is still considered as a challenging field that needs novel approaches...

A descriptive study of advanced control systems has been provided to the readers in this book. It comprehensively presents current developments in advanced control from both theoretical and practical outlook. The book highlights basic and advanced...

This practical yet rigorous book provides a development of nonlinear, Lyapunov-based tools and their use in the solution of control-theoretic problems. Rich in motivating examples and new design techniques, the text balances...

This volume contains a collection of papers delivered by the partici­ pants at the second Conference on Computation and Control held at Mon­ tana State University in Bozeman, Montana from August 1-7, 1990. The conference, as...

Robotics is the science that attempts to forge an intelligent, computational connection between perception and action. Perhaps the most fundamental problems in robotics today are uncertainty and error in control, sensing, and...

Professor J. P. LaSalle died on July 7, 1983 at the age of 67. The present book is being published posthumously with the careful assistance of Kenneth Meyer, one of the students of Professor LaSalle. It is appropriate that the...

Enter a world where machines see more than meets the eye and work tirelessly alongside us. "Robotic Perspectives" takes you on a journey through the cutting edge of robotics, exploring not just the technology itself, but the unique viewpoint it offers...

Understanding Robotic Process AutomationRobotic Process Automation (RPA) is revolutionizing the field of robotics, making it possible to automate repetitive and rule-based tasks in various industries. As engineers with a focus on robotics, it is...

Technical Report from the year 2019 in the subject Engineering - Robotics, grade: 9, , language: English, abstract: Robotic agents can be made to learn various tasks through simulating many years of robotic interaction with the environment which cannot...

Chaos control refers to purposefully manipulating chaotic dynamical behaviors of some complex nonlinear systems. There exists no similar control theory-oriented book available in the market that is devoted to the subject of...

This book reveals that the way we perceive sex robots is how we perceive ourselves, overcoming the false human/non-human binary. From Greek myths, to the film Ex Machina, to Japanese technology, non-human sexuality has been at the heart of culture. In...

The author compiles everything a student or experienced developmental engineer needs to know about the supporting technologies associated with the rapidly evolving field of robotics.From the table of contents: Design Considerations * Dead Reckoning *...

Remarkable developments have taken place in the field of mechatronics in recent years. As symbolized by the "Janglish (Japanese English)" word, mechatronics, the technology and the social adaptation for introducing electronics...

Introduction. Nonholonomic Kinematics and the Role of Elliptic Functions in Constructive Controllability; R.W. Brockett, Liyi Dai. Steering Nonholonomic Control Systems using Sinusoids; R.M. Murray, S.S. Sastry. Smooth Time-Periodic Feedback ...

One of the ultimate goals in Robotics is to create autonomous robots. Such robots will accept high-level descriptions of tasks and will execute them without further human intervention. The input descriptions will specify what...

Mobile robots are playing an increasingly important role in our world. Remotely operated vehicles are in everyday use for hazardous tasks such as charting and cleaning up hazardous waste spills, construction work of tunnels and...

The analysis and control of complex systems have been the main motivation for the emergence of fuzzy set theory since its inception. It is also a major research field where many applications, especially industrial ones, have...

 What is future (AI) artificial intelligent products development trend and reasonable development stages?  How to predict consumer behaviors to persuade who to feel (AI) products are more satisfactory to their needs?  Why do consumers feel...

Master's Thesis from the year 2010 in the subject Engineering - Robotics, grade: 70, University of Essex, course: Embedded Systems - Robotics - Human Machine Interaction, language: English, abstract: The idea of using a powered wheelchair, for people...

Think of the complexity of ordinary hand activity and how to describe it all, both precisely and concisely. The author, a noted occupational therapist in Japan, offers a disciplined approach to doing just that. Whereas research has heretofore been...

ments be thrown to the wind - in light of the fact that careful, precise, step-by-step deductive arguments will be presented below for each and every proposition that might be cavalierly regarded prima facie implausible. Key...

This book contains a selection of papers presented at the "European Robotics and Intelligent Systems Conference" (EURISCON '91) held in Corfu. Greece (June 23-28. 1991). It is devoted to the analysis. design and applications of...

Microprocessors play a dominant role in computer technology and have contributed uniquely in the development of many new concepts and design techniques for modem industrial systems. This contribution is excessively high in the...

Machines will gradually become programmed using computers which have the knowledge of how the objects in the world relate to one another. This book capitalizes on the fact that products which are manufactured can be designed on...

Immer mehr Aufgaben an industriellen Montageplätzen werden mithilfe von Robotern erledigt. Die Zusammenarbeit zwischen Mensch und Roboter hat einige Vorteile für die Produktion. Doch welche Schwierigkeiten können auftreten? Und wie können Unternehmen die...

The last decade has witnessed an increasing interest in the more active use of soft materials in robotic systems. Having a soft body like the ones in biological systems can potentially provide a robot with superior capabilities. For example, soft body...

During the past decade we have had to confront a series of control design prob­ lems - involving, primarily, multibody electro-mechanical systems - in which nonlinearity plays an essential role. Fortunately, the geometric...

Recently, research in robot kinematics has attracted researchers with different theoretical profiles and backgrounds, such as mechanical and electrica! engineering, computer science, and mathematics. It includes topics and...

In view of the importance of system identification, the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) and the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS) hold symposia on this topic every three...

As the community strives towards more autonomous multi-robot systems, the complexity of actions expected from a multiple robot system has increased significantly. Current tasks entail that a large set of heterogeneous robots dynamically partition...

This book joins the multitude of Control Systems books now available, but is neither a textbook nor a monograph. Rather it may be described as a resource book or survey of the elements/essentials of feedback control systems...

Calibration is playing an increasingly important role in industrial robotics. Higher accuracy demands are being placed on flexible assembly and manufacturing systems which in turn require robot manufacturers to produce...

Here is one of the first really thorough presentations on smart robots. Robots, machine vision systems, sensors, manipulators, expert systems, and artificial intelligence concepts combined in state-of-the-art computer ...

The area of analysis and control of mechanical systems using differential geometry is flourishing. This book collects many results over the last decade and provides a comprehensive introduction to the area.