Robotics category: 587 books
Automation 2017
Innovations in Automation, Robotics and Measurement Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
This book consists of papers presented at Automation 2017, an international conference held in Warsaw from March 15 to 17, 2017. It discusses research findings associated with the concepts behind INDUSTRY 4.0, with a focus on offering a better understanding of and promoting participation in the Fourth...
Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications 4
Results from the 4th International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
This book covers all aspects of robot intelligence from perception at sensor level and reasoning at cognitive level to behavior planning at execution level for each low level segment of the machine. It also presents the technologies for cognitive reasoning, social interaction with humans, behavior...
Progress in Systems Engineering
Proceedings of the Twenty-Third International Conference on Systems Engineering
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
This collection of proceedings from the International Conference on Systems Engineering, Las Vegas, 2014 is orientated toward systems engineering, including topics like aero-space, power systems, industrial automation and robotics, systems theory, control theory, artificial intelligence, signal processing,...
Disassembly Automation
Automated Systems with Cognitive Abilities
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015
This book presents a number of aspects to be considered in the development of disassembly automation, including the mechanical system, vision system and intelligent planner. The implementation of cognitive robotics increases the flexibility and degree of autonomy of the disassembly system. Disassembly,...
Mechatronics 2017
Recent Technological and Scientific Advances
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2017
This book presents nearly 90 carefully selected contributions at the 12th International Conference Mechatronics, which took place in Brno, Czech Republic on 6–8 September 2017. Reflecting the most progressive and constantly changing areas of mechatronics, these proceedings includes papers concerning...
Methods for Appearance-based Loop Closure Detection
Applications to Topological Mapping and Image Mosaicking
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
Mapping and localization are two essential tasks in autonomous mobile robotics. Due to the unavoidable noise that sensors present, mapping algorithms usually rely on loop closure detection techniques, which entail the correct identification of previously seen places to reduce the uncertainty of the...
Structural Synthesis of Parallel Robots
Part 5: Basic Overconstrained Topologies with Schönflies Motions
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
This book represents the fifth part of a larger work dedicated to the structural synthesis of parallel robots. The originality of this work resides in the fact that it combines new formulae for mobility, connectivity, redundancy and overconstraints with evolutionary morphology in a unified structural...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
This book aims at gathering roboticists, control theorists, neuroscientists, and mathematicians, in order to promote a multidisciplinary research on movement analysis. It follows the workshop “ Geometric and Numerical Foundations of Movements ” held at LAAS-CNRS in Toulouse in November 2015[1]....
Still Think Robots Can't Do Your Job?
Essays on Automation and Technological Unemployment
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Is Artificial Intelligence qualitatively different from other means of economizing the use of labor? Are we on the edge of a jobless society? If yes, are we ready for it? These are a few of the questions discussed in this collection of academic works. This book traces a brief history of the concept...
by Pierluigi Freni, Eleonora Marina Botta, Luca Randazzo
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Environmental conditions and pressurized spacesuits expose astronauts to problems of fatigue during lengthy extravehicular activities, with adverse impacts especially on the dexterity, force and endurance of the hands and arms. A state-of-the-art exploration in the field of hand exoskeletons revealed...
Fundamentals of Robotic Mechanical Systems
Theory, Methods, and Algorithms
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2013
The 4th edition includes updated and additional examples and exercises on the core fundamental concepts of mechanics, robots, and kinematics of serial robots. New images of CAD models and physical robots help to motivate concepts being introduced. Each chapter of the book can be read independently of others as it addresses a seperate issue in robotics.
by Colin G Hales
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
This book discusses two main cultural problems behind the failure of machine consciousness and artificial general intelligence (AGI) projects over many decades.
The first problem recognizes that building a conscious AGI means building an artificial scientist. The book identifies the responsible...
Wearable Sensors and Robots
Proceedings of International Conference on Wearable Sensors and Robots 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
These proceedings present the latest information on regulations and standards for medical and non-medical devices, including wearable robots for gait training and support, design of exoskeletons for the elderly, innovations in assistive robotics, and analysis of human–machine interactions taking...
Advances in Mechanical Design
Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Mechanical Design (ICMD2017)
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Focusing on innovation, these proceedings present recent advances in the field of mechanical design in China and offer researchers, scholars and scientists an international platform to present their research findings and exchange their ideas. In the context of the “Made in China 2025” development...