Control Problems in Robotics and Automation

ISBN-13: 9783540762201 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 298 str.

Bruno Siciliano; M. Thoma; K. P. Valavanis

Opis

An analysis of control problems in robotics and automation. It discusses: industrial automatic control; force control; techniques for more robot hands; multi-robots and co-operative systems; flexible manipulators; bipedal robots; underactuated mechanical systems; and vision-based control.

Spis treści

Force control: A bird's eye view.- Multirobots and cooperative systems.- Robotic dexterity via nonholonomy.- Control for teleoperation and haptic interfaces.- Recent progress in fuzzy control.- Trajectory control of flexible manipulators.- Dynamics and control of bipedal robots.- Free-floating robotic systems.- Underactuated mechanical systems.- Trends in mobile robot and vehicle control.- Vision-based robot control.- Sensor fusion.- Discrete event theory for the monitoring and control of robotic systems.- Scheduling of flexible manufacturing systems.- Task synchronization via integration of sensing, planning, and control in a manufacturing work-cell.- Advanced air traffic automation: A case study in distributed decentralized control.