Robotics

This updated edition describes the design and implementation of the MicroC/OS-II real-time operating system and offers an extremely detailed and highly readable design study useful to students.MicroC/OS II Second Edition describes the design and implementation of the MicroC/OS-II real-time operating... More

A comprehensive treatment of the analysis and design of discrete-time control systems which provides a gradual development of the theory by emphasizing basic concepts and avoiding highly mathematical arguments. The book features comprehensive treatment of pole placement, state observer design, and ... More

Table of Contents......1. Introduction to Process Control2. Analog Signal Conditioning3. Digital Signal Conditioning4. Thermal Sensors5. Mechanical Sensors6. Optical Sensors7. Final Control8. Discrete-State Process Control 9. Controller Principles10. Analog Controllers11. Computer-Based Control12. C... More

This introductory text covers the fundamentals of robotics, including the components, systems and subsystems that constitute robots, and the applications of robotics. Written in an easy-read to read style, it is both design and application oriented, which lends solidity to the text. This book begins... More

"Find the design principles you need to move vision-based control out of the lab and into the real world. In this edited collection of state-of-the-art papers, contributors highly regarded in robust vision bring you the latest applications in the field. Whatever your industry - from space ventures t... More

This book presents the most recent research results on modeling and control of robot manipulators. Chapter 1 gives unified tools to derive direct and inverse geometric, kinematic and dynamic models of serial robots and addresses the issue of identification of the geometric and dynamic parameters of... More

This book contains a comprehensive coverage of the subject ranging from conventional control to modern control including non-linear control, digital control systems and applications of fuzzy logic. Emphasis has been laid on the pedagogical aspects of the subject. Features Frequency domain design me... More

In concept and execution, this book covers the field of EAP with careful attention to all its key aspects and full infrastructure, including the available materials, analytical models, processing techniques, and characterization methods. In this second edition the reader is brought current on promis... More

The second edition of this highly successful book introduces the science and engineering of mechanical manipulation, and provides a complete overview of the fundamental skills underlying the mechanics and control of manipulators. Each chapter introduces the fundamentals of a topic and uses specially... More

The new Robotics: Science and Systems conference spans all areas of robotics, bringing together researchers working on the algorithmic and mathematical foundations of robotics, robotics applications, and analysis of robotics systems. This volume contains papers presented at the inaugural conference,... More

Comprehensive and accessible guide to the three main approaches to robust control design and its applications Optimal control is a mathematical field that is concerned with control policies that can be deduced using optimization algorithms. The optimal control approach to robust control design diff... More

This book contains tutorial surveys and original research contributions in geometric computing, modeling, and reasoning. Highlighting the role of algebraic computation, it covers: surface blending, implicitization, and parametrization; automated deduction with Clifford algebra and in real geometry; ... More

The work presents a modern, unified view on decision support and planning by considering its basics like preferences, belief, possibility and probability as well as utilities. These features together are immanent for software agents to believe the user that the agents are "intelligent."... More