Robotics list 7

The New Cool

A Visionary Teacher, His FIRST Robotics Team, and the Ultimate Battle of Smarts

by Neal Bascomb
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011

That Monday afternoon, in high-school gyms across America, kids were battling for the only glory American culture seems to want to dispense to the young these days: sports glory. But at Dos Pueblos High School in Goleta, California, in a gear-cluttered classroom, a different type of “cool” was...

Marine Robotics and Applications

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Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2017

This book reports on findings at the intersection between two related fields, namely coastal hydrography and marine robotics. On one side, it shows how the exploration of the ocean can be performed by autonomous underwater vehicles; on the other side, it shows how some methods from hydrography can...

Introduction to Mobile Robot Control

by Spyros G Tzafestas
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013

Introduction to Mobile Robot Control provides a complete and concise study of modeling, control, and navigation methods for wheeled non-holonomic and omnidirectional mobile robots and manipulators. The book begins with a study of mobile robot drives and corresponding kinematic and dynamic models,...

Challenges in Automation, Robotics and Measurement Techniques

Proceedings of AUTOMATION-2016, March 2-4, 2016, Warsaw, Poland

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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016

This book presents the set of papers accepted for presentation at the International Conference Automation, held in Warsaw, 2-4 March of 2016. It presents the research results presented by top experts in the fields of industrial automation, control, robotics and measurement techniques. Each chapter...

Autonomous Control Systems and Vehicles

Intelligent Unmanned Systems

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Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013

The International Conference on Intelligent Unmanned Systems 2011 was organized by the International Society of Intelligent Unmanned Systems and locally by the Center for Bio-Micro Robotics Research at Chiba University, Japan. The event was the 7th conference continuing from previous conferences held...

Practical, Made Easy Guide To Robotics & Automation [Revised Edition]

by Kerwin Mathew
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015

DESCRIPTION OF BOOK This practical, made easy book is aimed at both the layman and the engineer who is tasked with automating the production floor or plant. Full of important technical details, diagrams and illustrations, it will act as an easy guide or reference for the selection and utilization...

New Trends in Medical and Service Robots

Design, Analysis and Control

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Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017

These are selected papers presented at the 5th International Workshop on Medical and Service Robots (MESROB 2016). The main topics of the workshop included: Exoskeleton and prostheses; Therapeutic robots and rehabilitation; Cognitive robots; Humanoid & Service robots; Assistive robots...

How to Survive a Robot Uprising

Tips on Defending Yourself Against the Coming Rebellion

by Daniel H. Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018

How do you spot a robot mimicking a human? How do you recognize and then deactivate a rebel servant robot? How do you escape a murderous "smart" house, or evade a swarm of marauding robotic flies? In this dryly hilarious survival guide, roboticist Daniel H. Wilson teaches worried humans...

Passivity-Based Control and Estimation in Networked Robotics

by Takeshi Hatanaka, Nikhil Chopra, Masayuki Fujita
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015

Highlighting the control of networked robotic systems, this book synthesizes a unified passivity-based approach to an emerging cross-disciplinary subject. Thanks to this unified approach, readers can access various state-of-the-art research fields by studying only the background foundations associated...

Flexible Robotics

Applications to Multiscale Manipulations

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Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013

The objective of this book is to provide those interested in the field of flexible robotics with an overview of several scientific and technological advances in the practical field of robotic manipulation. The different chapters examine various stages that involve a number of robotic devices, particularly...

Robotics

Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications

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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013

As mechanical and cybernetic technologies gain prominence and usability, robots have become ever more present in our everyday lives, with applications in education, transportation, and the workforce. Robotics: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications explores some of the most recent developments...

Prototyping of Robotic Systems

Applications of Design and Implementation

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Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012

As a segment of the broader science of automation, robotics has achieved tremendous progress in recent decades due to the advances in supporting technologies such as computers, control systems, cameras and electronic vision, as well as micro and nanotechnology. Prototyping a design helps in determining...

A Treatise on Good Robots

by Krzysztof Tchon
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017

This volume investigates the ways emerging technologies in the fields of robotics and bio-robotics are influencing society. It necessarily considers both philosophical and technological study of robots, including what it means for robots to exist as good and moral entities, and how they benefit humans...

Wireless Sensor and Robot Networks

From Topology Control to Communication Aspects

by Nathalie Mitton, David Simplot-Ryl
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013

Wireless sensor networks have gained much attention these last years thanks to the great set of applications that accelerated the technological advances. Such networks have been widely investigated and many books and articles have been published about the new challenges they pose and how to address...

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