Farbod Fahimi Autonomous Robots. Modelling, Path Planning and Control Springer, 2009

Springer, 2006. - 283 pages. This book deals with the main control aspects in underwater manipulation tasks. The mathematical model with significant impact on the control strategy is discussed. The problem of controlling a 6-degrees-of-freedoms autonomous underwater vehicle is deeply investigated and a survey of fault detection/tolerant strategies for unmanned underwater vehicles is provided; experimental results obtained with the vehicle ODIN...

The MIT Press, 2002, 650 pages. The goal of neurotechnology is to confer the performance advantages of animal systems on robotic machines. Biomimetic robots differ from traditional robots in that they are agile, relatively cheap, and able to deal with real-world environments. The engineering of these robots requires a thorough understanding of the biological systems on which they are based, at both the biomechanical and physiological levels. This...

Contents Part A Robotics Foundations 1 Kinematics 2 Dynamics 3 Mechanisms and Actuation 4 Sensing and Estimation 5 Motion Planning 6 Motion Control 7 Force Control 8 Robotic Systems Architectures and Programming 9 AI Reasoning Methods for Robotics Part B Robot Structures 10 Performance Evaluation and Design Criteria 11 Kinematically Redundant Manipulators 12 Parallel Mechanisms and Robots 13 Robots with Flexible Elements 14 Model Identi?cation 15...

(Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences), Springer-Verlag, 1998, 343 pages. Covers results in motion planning and control, nonholonomic systems, probablistic algorithms, and collision detection which is a critical operation in algorithmic motion planning.

MIT Press (Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents), 2000, 400 pages. This text covers all the material needed to understand the principles behind the AI approach to robotics and to program an artificially intelligent robot for applications involving sensing, navigation, planning, and uncertainty. Robin Murphy is extremely effective at combining theoretical and practical rigor with a light narrative touch. In the overview, for example, she tou...

Springer (Studies in Computational Intelligence), 2006, 306 pages. There exists quite a vast literature on mobile robots, covering fundamental principles on motion control and path-planning in indoor environments using ultrasonic/laser transducers. However, there is a scarcity of books/collective documents on vision based navigation of mobile robots and multi-agent systems. The book fills this gap and attempts to develop interesting models for vi...

This is the classic text on robot manipulators, now covers visual control, motion planning and mobile robots too! "Robotics" provides the basic know-how on the foundations of robotics: modelling, planning and control. The text develops around a core of consistent and rigorous formalism with fundamental and technological material giving rise naturally and with gradually increasing difficulty to more advanced considerations. The theory of manipulat...

Springer (Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, vol. 230), 1998. Focusing on the important control problems in state-of-the-art robotics and automation, this volume features invited papers from a workshop held at CDC, San Diego, California. The many topics covered include: automatic control, distributed multi-agent control, multirobots, dexterous hands, flexible manipulators, walking robots, free-floating systems, nonholonomic robots...

Springer (Scientific Fundamentals of Robotics), 1990, 349 pages. Here for the first time in one book is a comprehensive and systematic approach to the dynamic modeling and control of biped locomotion robots. A survey is included of various approaches to the control of biped robots, and a new approach to the control of biped systems based on a complete dynamic model is presented in detail. The stability of complete biped system is presented for th...

Издательство InTech, 2011, -596 pp. Multi robot systems have recently att racted considerable att ention from roboticists as these off er the possibility of accomplishing a task that a single robot can not. A robot team may provide redundancy and perform assigned tasks in a more reliable, faster, or cheaper way. This book is a collection of 29 excellent works and comprised of three sections: task oriented approach, bio inspired approach, and mo...