Robotics

  • Advances in Robotics, Automation and Control
    Advances in Robotics, Automation and Control
    Editor Jesus Aramburo and Antonio Ramirez Trevino
    ISBN 978-953-7619-16-9
    472 pages, October, 2008
    Downloads: 32173
    The book presents an excellent overview of the recent developments in the different areas of Robotics, Automation and Control. Through its 24 chapters, this book presents topics related to control and robot design; it also introduces new mathematical ...
  • Robotic Systems - Applications, Control and Programming
    Robotic Systems - Applications, Control and Programming
    Editor Ashish Dutta
    ISBN 978-953-307-941-7
    628 pages, February, 2012
    Downloads: 5005
    This book brings together some of the latest research in robot applications, control, modeling, sensors and algorithms. Consisting of three main sections, the first section of the book has a focus on robotic surgery, rehabilitation, self-assembly, wh ...
  • Robot Arms
    Robot Arms
    Editor Satoru Goto
    ISBN 978-953-307-160-2
    262 pages, June, 2011
    Downloads: 5047
    Robot arms have been developing since 1960's, and those are widely used in industrial factories such as welding, painting, assembly, transportation, etc. Nowadays, the robot arms are indispensable for automation of factories. Moreover, applications o ...
  • Automation Control - Theory and Practice
    Automation Control - Theory and Practice
    Editor A D Rodić
    ISBN 978-953-307-039-1
    350 pages, December, 2009
    Downloads: 8761
    The present edited book is a collection of 18 chapters written by internationally recognized experts and well-known professionals of the field. Chapters contribute to diverse facets of automation and control. The volume is organized in four parts ac ...
  • Recent Advances in Mobile Robotics
    Recent Advances in Mobile Robotics
    Editor Andon Venelinov Topalov
    ISBN 978-953-307-909-7
    452 pages, December, 2011
    Downloads: 3301
    Mobile robots are the focus of a great deal of current research in robotics. Mobile robotics is a young, multidisciplinary field involving knowledge from many areas, including electrical, electronic and mechanical engineering, computer, cognitive and ...
  • Fuzzy Controllers- Recent Advances in Theory and Applications
    Fuzzy Controllers- Recent Advances in Theory and Applications
    Editor Sohail Iqbal, Nora Boumella and Juan Carlos Figueroa Garcia
    ISBN 978-953-51-0759-0
    578 pages, September, 2012
    Downloads: 1429
    Fuzzy control theory is an emerging area of research. At the core of many engineering problems is the problem of control of different systems. These systems range all the way from classical inverted pendulum to auto-focusing system of a digital camer ...
  • Advances in Robot Navigation
    Advances in Robot Navigation
    Editor Alejandra Barrera
    ISBN 978-953-307-346-0
    238 pages, July, 2011
    Downloads: 4147
    Robot navigation includes different interrelated activities such as perception - obtaining and interpreting sensory information; exploration - the strategy that guides the robot to select the next direction to go; mapping - the construction of a spat ...
  • Serial and Parallel Robot Manipulators - Kinematics, Dynamics, Control and Optimization
    Serial and Parallel Robot Manipulators - Kinematics, Dynamics, Control and Optimization
    Editor Serdar Kucuk
    ISBN 978-953-51-0437-7
    458 pages, March, 2012
    Downloads: 2483
    The robotics is an important part of modern engineering and is related to a group of branches such as electric & electronics, computer, mathematics and mechanism design. The interest in robotics has been steadily increasing during the last decades. T ...
  • Advances in Service Robotics
    Advances in Service Robotics
    Editor Ho Seok Ahn
    ISBN 978-953-7619-02-2
    342 pages, July, 2008
    Downloads: 10548
    This book consists of 18 chapters about current research results of service robots. Topics covered include various kinds of service robots, development environments, architectures of service robots, Human-Robot Interaction, networks of service robots ...
  • Mobile Robots - Control Architectures, Bio-Interfacing, Navigation, Multi Robot Motion Planning and Operator Training
    Mobile Robots - Control Architectures, Bio-Interfacing, Navigation, Multi Robot Motion Planning and Operator Training
    Editor Janusz Będkowski
    ISBN 978-953-307-842-7
    390 pages, December, 2011
    Downloads: 3166
    The objective of this book is to cover advances of mobile robotics and related technologies applied for multi robot systems' design and development. Design of control system is a complex issue, requiring the application of information technologies to ...
  • The Future of Humanoid Robots - Research and Applications
    The Future of Humanoid Robots - Research and Applications
    Editor Riadh Zaier
    ISBN 978-953-307-951-6
    300 pages, January, 2012
    Downloads: 2819
    This book provides state of the art scientific and engineering research findings and developments in the field of humanoid robotics and its applications. It is expected that humanoids will change the way we interact with machines, and will have the a ...
  • Aerial Vehicles
    Aerial Vehicles
    Editor Thanh Mung Lam
    ISBN 978-953-7619-41-1
    320 pages, January, 2009
    Downloads: 9260
    This book contains 35 chapters written by experts in developing techniques for making aerial vehicles more intelligent, more reliable, more flexible in use, and safer in operation.It will also serve as an inspiration for further improvement of the de ...
  • Multi-Robot Systems, Trends and Development
    Multi-Robot Systems, Trends and Development
    Editor Toshiyuki Yasuda
    ISBN 978-953-307-425-2
    586 pages, January, 2011
    Downloads: 4827
    This book is a collection of 29 excellent works and comprised of three sections: task oriented approach, bio inspired approach, and modeling/design. In the first section, applications on formation, localization/mapping, and planning are introduced. T ...
  • Advances in Theory and Applications of Stereo Vision
    Advances in Theory and Applications of Stereo Vision
    Editor Asim Bhatti
    ISBN 978-953-307-516-7
    352 pages, January, 2011
    Downloads: 4933
    The book presents a wide range of innovative research ideas and current trends in stereo vision. The topics covered in this book encapsulate research trends from fundamental theoretical aspects of robust stereo correspondence estimation to the establ ...
  • Automation and Robotics
    Automation and Robotics
    Editor Juan Manuel Ramos Arreguin
    ISBN 978-3-902613-41-7
    388 pages, May, 2008
    Downloads: 10229
    In this book, a set of relevant, updated and selected papers in the field of automation and robotics are presented. These papers describe projects where topics of artificial intelligence, modeling and simulation process, target tracking algorithms, k ...
  • Cutting Edge Robotics 2010
    Cutting Edge Robotics 2010
    Editor Vedran Kordic
    ISBN 978-953-307-062-9
    440 pages, October, 2010
    Downloads: 5154
    Robotics research, especially mobile robotics is a young field. Its roots include many engineering and scientific disciplines from mechanical, electrical and electronics engineering to computer, cognitive and social sciences. Each of this parent fiel ...
  • Robotics and Automation in Construction
    Robotics and Automation in Construction
    Editor Carlos Balaguer and Mohamed Abderrahim
    ISBN 978-953-7619-13-8
    404 pages, October, 2008
    Downloads: 8987
    This book addresses several issues related to the introduction of automaton and robotics in the construction industry in a collection of 23 chapters. The chapters are grouped in 3 main sections according to the theme or the type of technology they tr ...
  • Robot Vision
    Robot Vision
    Editor Ales Ude
    ISBN 978-953-307-077-3
    614 pages, March, 2010
    Downloads: 6178
    The purpose of robot vision is to enable robots to perceive the external world in order to perform a large range of tasks such as navigation, visual servoing for object tracking and manipulation, object recognition and categorization, surveillan ...
  • Advances in Biomimetics
    Advances in Biomimetics
    Editor Anne George
    ISBN 978-953-307-191-6
    522 pages, April, 2011
    Downloads: 3854
    The interaction between cells, tissues and biomaterial surfaces are the highlights of the book "Advances in Biomimetics". In this regard the effect of nanostructures and nanotopographies and their effect on the development of a new generation of biom ...
  • Biomimetics Learning from Nature
    Biomimetics Learning from Nature
    Editor Amitava Mukherjee
    ISBN 978-953-307-025-4
    534 pages, March, 2010
    Downloads: 5250
    Nature’s evolution has led to the introduction of highly efficient biological mechanisms. Imitating these mechanisms offers an enormous potential for the improvement of our day to day life. Ideally, by bio-inspiration we can get a better view of ...