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Robot Manipulators
Edited by Marco Ceccarelli, ISBN 978-953-7619-06-0, Hard cover, 546 pages, Publisher: InTech, Published: September 01, 2008 under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 license, in subject Mobile Robotics
DOI: 10.5772/87
In this book we have grouped contributions in 28 chapters from several authors all around the world on the several aspects and challenges of research and applications of robots with the aim to show the recent advances and problems that still need to be considered for future improvements of robot success in worldwide frames. Each chapter addresses a specific area of modeling, design, and application of robots but with an eye to give an integrated view of what make a robot a unique modern system for many different uses and future potential applications. Main attention has been focused on design issues as thought challenging for improving capabilities and further possibilities of robots for new and old applications, as seen from today technologies and research programs. Thus, great attention has been addressed to control aspects that are strongly evolving also as function of the improvements in robot modeling, sensors, servo-power systems, and informatics. But even other aspects are considered as of fundamental challenge both in design and use of robots with improved performance and capabilities, like for example kinematic design, dynamics, vision integration.
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Book contents
- Chapter 1Experimental Results on Variable Structure Control for an Uncertain Robot Model
- Chapter 2Unit Quaternions: A Mathematical Tool for Modeling, Path Planning and Control of Robot Manipulators
- Chapter 3Kinematic Design of Manipulators
- Chapter 4Gentle Robotic Handling Using Acceleration Compensation
- Chapter 5Calibration of Robot Reference Frames for Enhanced Robot Positioning Accuracy
- Chapter 6Control of Robotic Systems Undergoing a Non-Contact to Contact Transition
- Chapter 7Motion Control of a Robot Manipulator in Free Space Based on Model Predictive Control
- Chapter 8Experimental Control of Flexible Robot Manipulators
- Chapter 9Improvement of Force Control in Robotic Manipulators Using Sensor Fusion Techniques
- Chapter 10Adaptive Neural Network Based Fuzzy Sliding Mode Control of Robot Manipulator
- Chapter 11Impedance Control of Flexible Robot Manipulators
- Chapter 12Simple Effective Control for Robot Manipulators with Friction
- Chapter 13On Transpose Jacobian Control for Monocular Fixed-Camera 3D Direct Visual Servoing
- Chapter 14Novel Framework of Robot Force Control Using Reinforcement Learning
- Chapter 15Link Mass Optimization Using Genetic Algorithms for Industrial Robot Manipulators
- Chapter 16FPGA-Realization of a Motion Control IC for Robot Manipulator
- Chapter 17Experimental Identification of the Inverse Dynamic Model: Minimal Encoder Resolution Needed Application to an Industrial Robot Arm and a Haptic Interface
- Chapter 18Towards Simulation of Custom Industrial Robots
- Chapter 19Design and Simulation of Robot Manipulators Using a Modular Hardware-in-the-loop Platform
- Chapter 20Soft-Computing Techniques for the Trajectory Planning of Multi-Robot Manipulator Systems
- Chapter 21Robot Control Using On-Line Modification of Reference Trajectories
- Chapter 22Motion Behavior of Null Space in Redundant Robotic Manipulators
- Chapter 23Paddle Juggling by Robot Manipulator with Visual Servo
- Chapter 24An Industrial Robot as Part of an Automatic System for Geometric Reverse Engineering
- Chapter 25Sensing Planning of Calibration Measurements for Intelligent Robots
- Chapter 26Robot Programming in Machining Operations
- Chapter 27Dynamic Visual Servoing with an Uncalibrated Eye-in-Hand Camera
- Chapter 28Vision-Guided Robot Control for 3D Object Recognition and Manipulation

