Service robots might soon free people from unpleasant, dull, dirty and dangerous tasks and work for them as servants. This book presents sample results from the DESIRE project (Deutsche Service Robotik Initiative - Germany Service Robotics Initiative).
Service robots might soon free people from unpleasant, dull, dirty and dangerous tasks and work for them as servants. This book presents sample result...
Culled from the proceedings of the 13th International Symposium of Robotics Research, this volume covers a plethora of topics in robotics, from state-of-the-art advances in theory and technology to developments in its traditional and novel application areas.
Culled from the proceedings of the 13th International Symposium of Robotics Research, this volume covers a plethora of topics in robotics, from state-...
Selected from papers presented at the 2009 International Symposium of Robotics Research, this collection covers a wide spectrum of leading-edge topics in the field and, like its predecessors, will have an enormous influence on the direction of future research.
Selected from papers presented at the 2009 International Symposium of Robotics Research, this collection covers a wide spectrum of leading-edge topics...
The Seventh edition of Field and Service offers a collection of a broad range of topics. Written by leading experts in this field, the contents represent a cross-section of the current state of robotics research from field and service applications.
The Seventh edition of Field and Service offers a collection of a broad range of topics. Written by leading experts in this field, the contents repres...
Robots can't climb trees. Or can they? This volume features the work of leading experts who have tackled this kinematic conundrum, with motion analysis of tree-climbing animals and details of a novel robot engineered as a result of this research.
Robots can't climb trees. Or can they? This volume features the work of leading experts who have tackled this kinematic conundrum, with motion analysi...
Autonomous manipulation is a challenge in robotic technologies. It refers to the capability of a mobile robot system with one or more manipulators that performs intervention tasks requiring physical contacts in unstructured environments and without continuous human supervision. Achieving autonomous manipulation capability is a quantum leap in robotic technologies as it is currently beyond the state of the art in robotics.
This book addresses issues with the complexity of the problems encountered in autonomous manipulation including representation and modeling of robotic structures,...
Autonomous manipulation is a challenge in robotic technologies. It refers to the capability of a mobile robot system with one or more manipulators...
Vision-based control of wheeled mobile robots is an interesting field of research from a scientific and even social point of view due to its potential applicability. This book presents a formal treatment of some aspects of control theory applied to the problem of vision-based pose regulation of wheeled mobile robots. In this problem, the robot has to reach a desired position and orientation, which are specified by a target image. It is faced in such a way that vision and control are unified to achieve stability of the closed loop, a large region of convergence, without local minima and...
Vision-based control of wheeled mobile robots is an interesting field of research from a scientific and even social point of view due to its potent...
This monograph by Florian Rohrbein, Germano Veiga and Ciro Natale is an edited collection of 15 authoritative contributions in the area of robot technology transfer between academia and industry. It comprises three parts on Future Industrial Robotics, Robotic Grasping as well as Human-Centered Robots. The book chapters cover almost all the topics nowadays considered 'hot' within the robotics community, from reliable object recognition to dexterous grasping, from speech recognition to intuitive robot programming, from mobile robot navigation to aerial robotics, from...
This monograph by Florian Rohrbein, Germano Veiga and Ciro Natale is an edited collection of 15 authoritative contributions in the area of robot te...
With functional analyses both of human and robotic hands, this work sets out a new approach in anthropomorphic robot design with broad, systemic relevance. The techniques set a new standard in robot hand kinematics, fulfilling full sets of task criteria.
With functional analyses both of human and robotic hands, this work sets out a new approach in anthropomorphic robot design with broad, systemic relev...
This book, now at the third edition, addresses the main control aspects in underwater manipulation tasks. The mathematical model with significant impact on the control strategy is discussed. The problem of controlling a 6-degrees-of-freedoms autonomous underwater vehicle is deeply investigated and a survey of fault detection/tolerant strategies for unmanned underwater vehicles is provided. Inverse kinematics, dynamic and interaction control for underwater vehicle-manipulator systems are then discussed. The code used to generate most of the numerical simulations is made available and...
This book, now at the third edition, addresses the main control aspects in underwater manipulation tasks. The mathematical model with significant i...
