Robotics category: 587 books
Proceedings of the 2015 Chinese Intelligent Automation Conference
Intelligent Technology and Systems
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Proceedings of the 2015 Chinese Intelligent Automation Conference presents selected research papers from the CIAC’15, held in Fuzhou, China. The topics include adaptive control, fuzzy control, neural network based control, knowledge based control, hybrid intelligent control, learning control, evolutionary...
WE: ROBOT
The robots that already rule our world
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2018
Robots exist all around us. They populate our factories, assist our surgeons and have become an integral part of our armed forces. But they are not just working behind the scenes – impressive inventions such as free-roaming hoovers takecare of your household chores and the iPal is set to become...
by Jean-Claude HEUDIN
Language: French
Release Date: November 8, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: November 8, 2015
R2-D2 et C-3PO sont certainement les robots les plus populaires de la planète. Le petit nouveau BB-8 est lui-aussi devenu une vedette avant même la sortie du nouvel opus de la saga. Mais ils sont loin d’être les seuls, car Star Wars met en scène...
by Bruce Butler
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2018
Into the Labyrinth: The Making of a Modern-Day Theseus provides an insider’s account of Project Spinnaker, a joint Canada–US defence project conceived in the waning days of the Cold War. Spinnaker’s secret purpose was to reassert Canada’s Arctic sovereignty by providing the capability to monitor...
by Jadran Lenarcic, Tadej Bajd, Michael M. Stanišić
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the area of robot mechanisms, primarily considering industrial manipulators and humanoid arms. The book is intended for both teaching and self-study. Emphasis is given to the fundamentals of kinematic analysis and the design of robot mechanisms. The...
by Janez Podobnik, Matjaž Mihelj
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
This book covers all topics relevant for the design of haptic interfaces and teleoperation systems. The book provides the basic knowledge required for understanding more complex approaches and more importantly it introduces all issues that must be considered for designing efficient and safe haptic...
Hydraulically Actuated Hexapod Robots
Design, Implementation and Control
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2013
Legged robots are a promising locomotion system, capable of performing tasks that conventional vehicles cannot. Even more exciting is the fact that this is a rapidly developing field of study for researchers from a variety of disciplines. However, only a few books have been published on the subject...
Explorations in the History and Heritage of Machines and Mechanisms
Proceedings of the 2018 HMM IFToMM Symposium on History of Machines and Mechanisms
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
This is the proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on History of Machines and Mechanisms that was held in Beijing, China, in September 2018. The Symposium provided an international forum for presenting and discussing historical developments in the field of Machine and Mechanism Science (MMS)....
Making Sense of Haptics
Fundamentals of Perception and Implications for Device Design
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
Tele operation systems, in which robots are controlled remotely, are a potential solution to performing tasks in remote, small, and hazardous environments. However, there is a big disadvantage to these systems; as the direct connection between the human and the environment is lost and operators are...
by Aleksandar Vakanski, Farrokh Janabi-Sharifi
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2017
This book presents programming by demonstration for robot learning from observations with a focus on the trajectory level of task abstraction
Discusses methods for optimization of task reproduction, such as reformulation of task planning as a constrained optimization problem
Focuses on regression...
Biologically Inspired Control of Humanoid Robot Arms
Robust and Adaptive Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
This book investigates a biologically inspired method of robot arm control, developed with the objective of synthesising human-like motion dynamically, using nonlinear, robust and adaptive control techniques in practical robot systems. The control method caters to a rising interest in humanoid robots...
Robots in Academic Libraries
Advancements in Library Automation
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
In recent years, automation has played a vital role in library systems that handle tasks of acquisition, cataloging, serials, and circulation. The automation of these operations has, in turn, minimized the demand for human interaction. Robots in Academic Libraries: Advancements in Library Automation...
by Beishui Liao
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2013
Efficient Computation of Argumentation Semantics addresses argumentation semantics and systems, introducing readers to cutting-edge decomposition methods that drive increasingly efficient logic computation in AI and intelligent systems. Such complex and distributed systems are increasingly used in...
Man-Machine-Environment System Engineering
Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on MMESE
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2018
These proceedings showcase the best papers selected from more than 500 submissions, and introduce readers to the hottest research topics and the latest developmental trends in the theory and application of MMESE. The integrated and advanced science research topic Man-Machine-Environment System Engineering...