Type Synthesis of Parallel Mechanisms

Xianwen Kong, Clément M Gosselin

• Paperback | Engels | Tracts in Advanced Robotics | nr. 33
• This unique monograph focuses on the systematic type synthesis of parallel mechanisms (PMs), a key issue in the creative design of a wide variety of i... Lees meer

Robot Navigation from Nature

Michael John Milford

• Hardcover | Engels | Tracts in Advanced Robotics | nr. 41
• This pioneering book describes the development of a robot mapping and navigation system inspired by models of the neural mechanisms underlying spatial... Lees meer

Robotics Research

• Paperback | Engels | Tracts in Advanced Robotics | nr. 15
• ISRR, the "International Symposium on Robotics Research", is one of robotics' pioneering symposia, which has established some of the field's most fund... Lees meer

Robotic Mapping and Exploration

Cyrill Stachniss

• Paperback | Engels | Tracts in Advanced Robotics | nr. 55
• "Robotic Mapping and Exploration" is an important contribution in the area of simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) for autonomous robots, whic... Lees meer

Nonlinear Kalman Filtering for Force-Controlled Robot Tasks

Tine Lefebvre, Herman Bruyninckx, Joris de Schutter

• Hardcover | Engels | Tracts in Advanced Robotics | nr. 19
• This monograph focuses on how to achieve more robot autonomy by means of reliable processing skills. "Nonlinear Kalman Filtering for Force-Controlled ... Lees meer

Musical Robots and Interactive Multimodal Systems

• Hardcover | Engels | Tracts in Advanced Robotics | nr. 74
• Musical robotics is a multi- and trans-disciplinary research area involving a wide range of different domains that contribute to its development, incl... Lees meer

Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems

• Hardcover | Engels | Tracts in Advanced Robotics | nr. 104
• Distributed robotics is a rapidly growing and maturing interdisciplinary research area lying at the intersection of computer science, network science,... Lees meer

Random Finite Sets for Robot Mapping and SLAM

John Stephen Mullane, Ba-Ngu Vo, Martin David Adams, Ba-Tuong Vo

• Hardcover | Engels | Tracts in Advanced Robotics | nr. 72
• The monograph written by John Mullane, Ba-Ngu Vo, Martin Adams and Ba-Tuong Vo is devoted to the field of autonomous robot systems, which have been re... Lees meer

Field and Service Robotics

• Hardcover | Engels | Tracts in Advanced Robotics | nr. 25
• The 5th International Conference on Field and Service Robotics (FSR05) was held in Port Douglas, Australia, on 29th - 31st July 2005, and brought toge... Lees meer

Atomic Force Microscopy Based Nanorobotics

Hui Xie, Cagdas Onal, Stéphane Régnier, Metin Sitti

• Hardcover | Engels | Tracts in Advanced Robotics | nr. 71
• The atomic force microscope (AFM) has been successfully used to perform nanorobotic manipulation operations on nanoscale entities such as particles, n... Lees meer

Exoskeletons in Rehabilitation Robotics

Eduardo Rocon, José L Pons

• Hardcover | Engels | Tracts in Advanced Robotics | nr. 69
• The new technological advances opened widely the application field of robots. Robots are moving from the classical application scenario with structure... Lees meer

Electroactive Polymer Gel Robots

Mihoko Otake

• Hardcover | Engels | Tracts in Advanced Robotics | nr. 59
• By the dawn of the new millennium, robotics has undergone a major tra- formation in scope and dimensions. This expansion has been brought about bythem... Lees meer

Robotic Mapping and Exploration

Cyrill Stachniss

• Hardcover | Engels | Tracts in Advanced Robotics | nr. 55
• "Robotic Mapping and Exploration" is an important contribution in the area of simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) for autonomous robots, whic... Lees meer

Multiple Heterogeneous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

• Paperback | Engels | Tracts in Advanced Robotics | nr. 37
• Complete with online files and updates, this cutting-edge text looks at the next generation of unmanned flying machines. Aerial robots can be consider... Lees meer

Algorithmic Foundation of Robotics VII

• Paperback | Engels | Tracts in Advanced Robotics | nr. 47
• Algorithms are a fundamental component of robotic systems: they control or reason about motion and perception in the physical world. They receive inpu... Lees meer

Integrated Visual Servoing and Force Control

Joris de Schutter, Johan Baeten

• Hardcover | Engels | Tracts in Advanced Robotics | nr. 8
• Sight and touch are two elementary, but highly complementary senses - for humans as well as for robots. This monograph develops an integrated vision/f... Lees meer

Efficient Topology Estimation for Large Scale Optical Mapping

Armagan Elibol, Nuno Gracias, Rafael Garcia

• Hardcover | Engels | Tracts in Advanced Robotics | nr. 82
• Large scale optical mapping methods are in great demand among scientists who study different aspects of the seabed, and have been fostered by impressi... Lees meer

Electroactive Polymer Gel Robots

Mihoko Otake

• Paperback | Engels | Tracts in Advanced Robotics | nr. 59
• I: Modelling.- Adsorption-Induced Deformation Model of Electroactive Polymer Gel.- Parameter Identification by One Point Observation.- II: Design.- In... Lees meer

Efficient 3D Scene Modeling and Mosaicing

Tudor Nicosevici, Rafael Garcia

• Hardcover | Engels | Tracts in Advanced Robotics | nr. 87
• This book proposes a complete pipeline for monocular (single camera) based 3D mapping of terrestrial and underwater environments. The aim is to provid... Lees meer

Robotics Research

• Hardcover | Engels | Tracts in Advanced Robotics | nr. 28
• Robotics is undergoing a major transformation in scope and dimension. From a largely dominant industrial focus, robotics is rapidly expanding into hum... Lees meer

Introduction to Humanoid Robotics

Shuuji Kajita, Hirohisa Hirukawa, Kensuke Harada, Kazuhito Yokoi

• Hardcover | Engels | Tracts in Advanced Robotics | nr. 101
• This book is for researchers, engineers, and students who are willing to understand how humanoid robots move and be controlled. The book starts with a... Lees meer

Control of Single Wheel Robots

Yangsheng Xu, Yongsheng Ou

• Paperback | Engels | Tracts in Advanced Robotics | nr. 20
• Introduction.- Kinematics and Dynamics.- Model-based Control.- Learning-Based Control.- Further Topics on Learning-based Control.- Shared Control.- Co... Lees meer

Towards Safe Robots

Sami Haddadin

• Hardcover | Engels | Tracts in Advanced Robotics | nr. 90
• The vision of seamless human-robot interaction in our everyday life that allows for tight cooperation between human and robot has not become reality y... Lees meer

Modeling and Control for Efficient Bipedal Walking Robots

Vincent Duindam, Stefano Stramigioli

• Hardcover | Engels | Tracts in Advanced Robotics | nr. 53
• By the dawn of the new millennium, robotics has undergone a major tra- formation in scope and dimensions. This expansion has been brought about bythem... Lees meer