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Robot Companions $22.94 MORE THAN TOYS OR INTELLIGENT APPLIANCES -- MECHANICAL FRIENDS AND VALUED ASSISTANTSInside Robot Companions you'll find all the details, plans, and information you need to make a robot partner part of your daily life, at a price you can afford. Author E. Oliver Severin, originator of some of the technologies that make robots friendly, useful, and educational, shows you how to find or build your own robot helpmate -- either from commercial kits or an assembly of separate, off-the-shelf parts. With Robot Companions, you'll learn how to build your own robot for purposes such as companionship, supervision of the elderly, tutoring the young, doing household chores, and much more. The book delves into essential enabling technologies such as mobility, voice, communications, touch, sight, and smell response so you'll understand the mechanics behind form, function, and personality. If you're looking for an industrious mechanical someone to help with the housework, care for the kids, even watch over aging parents without complaint, Robot Companions belongs on your shelf! ENTER THE AMAZING WORLD OF FRIENDLY 'BOTS * Facial expressions and responses to voice * Artificial Intelligence and meaningful response * Educational, mentoring, and minding abilities * The fantastic future of companionable 'bots! * Technologies that make them work * Services and tasks they can perform * Plans for building your own * Kits and off-the-shelf 'bots * Surprising affordability

Principles of Robot Motion $58.99 Robot motion planning has become a major focus of robotics. Research findings can be applied not only to robotics but to planning routes on circuit boards, directing digital actors in computer graphics, robot-assisted surgery and medicine, and in novel areas such as drug design and protein folding. This text reflects the great advances that have taken place in the last ten years, including sensor-based planning, probabalistic planning, localization and mapping, and motion planning for dynamic and nonholonomic systems. Its presentation makes the mathematical underpinnings of robot motion accessible to students of computer science and engineering, rleating low-level implementation details to high-level algorithmic concepts.

The Robot Builder's Cookbook $22.14 Owen Bishop introduces, through hands-on project work, the mechanics, electronics and programming involved in practical robot design-and-build. The use of the PIC microcontroller throughout provides a painless introduction to programming whilst harnessing the power of a highly popular microcontroller used by students and design engineers worldwide. This is a book for first-time robot builders, advanced builders wanting to know more about programming robots and students tackling microcontroller-based practical work. They will all find this book a unique and exciting source of projects, ideas and techniques, to be combined into a wide range of fascinating robots.

On Advances In Robot Kinematics $228.03 This book presents the most recent research advances in the theory, design, control and application of robotic systems, which are intended for a variety of purposes such as manipulation, manufacturing, automations, surgery, locomotion and biomechanics. The issues addressed are fundamentally kinematic in nature, including synthesis, calibration, redundancy, force control, dexterity, inverse and forward kinematics, kinematic singularities, as well as over-constrained systems. Methods used include line geometry, quaternion algebra, screw algebra, and linear algebra. These methods are applied to both parallel and serial multi-degree-of-freedom systems. The results should interest researchers, teachers and students, in fields of engineering and mathematics related to robot theory, design, control and application.

Recent Advances in Robot Kinematics $299 The purpose of this book is to present recent advances in the area of kinematics of robots and mechanisms. The book consists of forty-five contributions grouped in eight sections that include the following prevalent topics: control and optimisation, kinematic performance of robots and mechanisms, workspace and trajectory analysis, modelling and computation, analysis and simulation. Two sections are dedicated to the problems of parallel mechanisms: performance of parallel mechanisms, and kinematic analysis of parallel mechanisms. Recent Advances in Robot Kinematics is of interest to researchers, graduate students, and engineers specialising in the kinematics of robots and mechanisms. The book should also be of interest to those working with kinematic chains in rigid-body kinematics.

Control of Robot Manipulators in Joint Space $104.77 Robot control is the backbone of robotics, an essential discipline in the maintenance of high quality and productivity in modern industry. The most common method of control for industrial robotic manipulators relies on the measurement and amendment of joint displacement: so-called joint-space control. Control of Robot Manipulators in Joint Space addresses robot control in depth, treating a range of model-based controllers in detail: proportional derivative; proportional integral derivative; computed torque and some adaptive variants. Using varying combinations of the textbs four parts: b robot dynamics and mathematical preliminaries; b set-point model-based control; b tracking model-based control; and b adaptive and velocity-independent control a complete course in robot control based on joint space can be constructed for senior undergraduates or masters students. Other areas of study important to robotics, such as kinematics, receive attention within the case studies which are based around a 2-degrees-of-freedom planar articulated arm termed the Pelican prototype and used throughout to test the examined controllers by experimentation. In addition to the written text, auxiliary resources are available in the form of pdf projector presentations for the instructor to use in lectures and as printed class aids for students, and a pdf solutions manual. All of this labour-saving supplementary material can be downloaded from the Springer website.