Robotics

The word "robot" does not originate from a science or engineering vocabulary. It was rst used in the Czech drama R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) written by Karel Capek and was rst played in Prague in 1921 (the word itself was invented by his brother...

Computers are already approving financial transactions, controlling electrical supplies, and driving trains. Soon, service robots will be taking care of the elderly in their homes, and military robots will have their own targeting and firing protocols...

Hard Science Fiction Films that Predict Future Technology"As the breakneck advance of technology takes us into a world that is both exciting and menacing, sci-fi films give us an inkling of what is to come, and what we should avoid." -Seth Shostak,...

Arduino's ubiquity and simplicity has led to a gigantic surge in the use of microcontrollers to build programmable electronics project. Despite the low cost of Arduino, you're still committing about $30 worth of hardware every time you build a project...

Build your first robots with Python and some cheap, basic components. This entertaining book guides you step by step! In Build Your Own Robot you'll learn how to: Use cameras to capture photos and let your robot seeTrack faces using computer vision and...

The International Workshop on Human-Friendly Robotics (HFR) is an annual meeting that brings together academic scientists, researchers and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results on all aspects related to the...

These days drones are buzzing, not only in the skies, but throughout the maker community! Makers' love affair with drones is easy to understand: it has all the trademarks of the maker movement. From open source hardware, robotics (like sensors), cameras,...

Discover the many features of the LEGO (R) MINDSTORMS (R) NXT 2.0 set. The LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT 2.0 Discovery Book is the complete, illustrated, beginner's guide to MINDSTORMS that you've been looking for. The crystal clear instructions in the Discovery...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525426974Author David A. MindellFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Viking Press IncPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 466g

Based on the author's wide-ranging experience as a robot user, supplier and consultant, Implementation of Robot Systems will enable you to approach the use of robots in your plant or facility armed with the right knowledge base and awareness of critical...

Wearable exoskeletons are electro-mechanical systems designed to assist, augment, or enhance motion and mobility in a variety of human motion applications and scenarios. The applications, ranging from providing power supplementation to assist the wearers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781563924040Author Haynes PublishingFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Haynes Manuals IncPublisher Haynes PublishingWeight(grams) 600gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262048149Author Joseph AyersFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

The mBot robotics platform is a hugely popular kit because of the quality of components and price. With hundreds of thousands of these kits out there in homes, schools and makerspaces, there is much untapped potential. Getting Started with mBots is for...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781930004801Author Texe MarrsFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Rivercrest PublishingPublisher Rivercrest PublishingWeight(grams) 771gDimensions(mm)...

In today’s rapidly evolving industrial landscape, robotics has become essential for meeting the demands of large-scale production. Parallel robots, with their closed-loop kinematic structures, offer unmatched precision, rigidity, and load-bearing...

The ?rst International Meeting of Advances in Robot Kinematics, ARK, occurred in September 1988, by invitation to Ljubljana, Slovenia, of a group of 20 int- nationally recognized researchers, representing six different countries from three continents...

In this book, the design of two new planar patterns for camera calibration of intrinsic parameters is addressed and a line-based method for distortion correction is suggested. The dynamic calibration of structured light systems, which consist of a camera...

An aerial robot is a system capable of sustained flight with no direct human control and able to perform a specific task. A lighter than air robot is an aerial robot that relies on the static lift to balance its own weight. It can also be defined as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783668550346Author Hayder Al-ShukaFormat PaperbackImprint Grin PublishingPublisher Grin PublishingWeight(grams) 50g

Many realistic engineering systems are large in dimension and stiff for computation. Their analysis and control require extensive numerical algorithms. The methodology of singular perturbations and time scales (SPTS), crowned with the remedial features...

'To the surprise of some undergraduates, processes do not carry labels marking their variables nor, alas, are they conveniently classified into linear, nonlinear, stochastic, etc., categories. The ability to come to terms with this situation is a...

The 5th IFAC Workshop on Algorithms and Architectures for Real-Time Control (AARTC '98) was organized under the auspices of the IFAC Technical Committee. This Committee is concerned with the use of emerging software and hardware developments in real-time...

These proceedings contain papers presented at the IFAC Symposium on Robust Control Design (ROCOND'97) held in Budapest, Hungary between 25-27 June 1997. The Symposium was sponsored by the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) and was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306438271Author J. M. SkowronskiFormat HardbackPage Count 456Imprint Kluwer Academic / Plenum PublishersPublisher Kluwer Academic Publishers...

Two dozen papers promote the use of the advanced mechanics method in control theory, emphasizing the control of nonlinear mechanical systems subject to uncertainty. They cover control methodology, applications to aerospace systems, and the control of...

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...

Along with the dramatic increase in computer power, the application of PDE-based control theory and the corresponding numerical algorithms to industrial problems has become increasingly important. This development is reflected in this volume. The...

This book is focused on geometrical models of robot mechanisms. Rotation and orientation of an object are described by Rodrigues's formula, rotation matrix and quaternions. Pose and displacement of an object are mathematically dealt with homogenous...

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...

This book addresses dynamic modelling methodology and analyses of tree-type robotic systems. Such analyses are required to visualize the motion of a system without really building it. The book contains novel treatment of the tree-type systems using...

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...

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. Aristotle Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty. Albert Einstein The second most important job in the world,...

This book is targeted for students of electronics and computer sciences. The first part of the book contains 15 original applications working on the PIC microcontroller, including: lighting diodes, communication with RS232 (bit-banging), interfacing to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783656956280Author Oladimeji HamzatFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Grin PublishingPublisher Grin PublishingWeight(grams) 91g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783656549048Author Muhammad YaqoobFormat PaperbackImprint Grin PublishingPublisher Grin PublishingWeight(grams) 86g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783656389545Author Pankaj KadamFormat PaperbackImprint Grin PublishingPublisher Grin PublishingWeight(grams) 95g

The word "robot" does not originate from a science or engineering vocabulary. It was rst used in the Czech drama R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) written by Karel Capek and was rst played in Prague in 1921 (the word itself was invented by his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781638283768Author Esmaeil SerajFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint now publishers IncPublisher now publishers IncWeight(grams) 414g