18 books like Sensing, Intelligence, Motion

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Do-4U the robot experiences forces and motion Mark Weakland · 2012 · 24p · ≈ 48m · Moderate DO-4U and his friend, HEV-E1 explain the nature of forces and motion, including friction, inertia, and magnetism. Shares: Motion, Robots

Adaptive Control for Robotic Manipulators Dan Zhang · 2016 · 440p · ≈ 14h · Moderate The robotic mechanism and its controller make a complete system. As the robotic mechanism is reconfigured, the control system has to be adapted accordingly. The need for the reconfiguration usually arises from the changing functional requirements. This book will focus on the adaptive control of robotic manipulators to address the changed conditions. The aim of the book is to summarise and… Shares: Manipulators, Engineering, Robots

Introduction to autonomous mobile robots Roland Siegwart · 2004 · 335p · ≈ 11h · Moderate The second edition of a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of mobile robotics, from algorithms to mechanisms.Mobile robots range from the Mars Pathfinder mission's teleoperated Sojourner to the cleaning robots in the Paris Metro. This text offers students and other interested readers an introduction to the fundamentals of mobile robotics, spanning the mechanical, motor, sensory,… Shares: Engineering, Technology, Robots

Synergetic Agents Hermann Haken · 2012 · 338p · ≈ 11h · Moderate This book addresses both multi robot systems and miniaturization to the nanoscale from a unifying point of view, but without leaving aside typical particularities of either. The unifying aspect is based on the concept of information minimization whose precise formulation is the Haken-Levi-principle. The authors introduce basic concepts of multi-component self-organizing systems such as order… Shares: Motion, Robots

Microrobotics for micromanipulation Nicolas Chaillet · 2010 · 484p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Microrobotics is an emerging and booming area with many and various applications, including in fields such as industrial/manufacturing robotics, medical robotics, and laboratory instrumentation. Microrobotics for Micromanipulation presents for the first time, in detail, a treatment of the field of robotics dedicated to handling objects of micrometer dimensions. At these dimensions, the behavior… Shares: Manipulators, Robots

Flexible Robotics Mathieu Grossard · 2013 · 416p · ≈ 13h · Moderate 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 those designed for manipulation tasks characterized by mechanical flexibility.Chapter 1… Shares: Manipulators, Robots

Reliability Models of Complex Systems for Robots and Automation Hamid Fazlollahtabar · 2017 · 93p · ≈ 3h · Moderate Shares: Engineering, Technology, Robots

Visual Perception and Control of Underwater Robots Junzhi Yu · 2021 · 236p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Visual Perception and Control of Underwater Robots covers theories and applications from aquatic visual perception and underwater robotics. Within the framework of visual perception for underwater operations, image restoration, binocular measurement, and object detection are addressed. More specifically, the book includes adversarial critic learning for visual restoration, NSGA-II-based… Shares: Engineering, Technology, Robots

Hybrid control and motion planning of dynamical legged locomotion Nasser Sadati · 2012 · 272p · ≈ 9h · Moderate "This book provides a comprehensive presentation of issues and challenges faced by researchers and practicing engineers in motion planning and hybrid control of dynamical legged locomotion. The major features range from offline and online motion planning algorithms to generate desired feasible periodic walking and running motions and tow-level control schemes, including within-stride feedback… Shares: Motion, Robots

Nunquam Lawrence Durrell · 1970 · ★ 4.0 · 318p · ≈ 10h · Moderate A desperate scientist's mastery of technology may save him—or be his undoing—in this follow-up to Tunc by the New York Times–bestselling literary master.   The ominous and compelling sequel to Durrell's Tunc finds gifted inventor Felix Charlock called upon by the sinister international firm, Merlin, to apply his scientific prowess to a seemingly impossible project. He must literally… Shares: Technology, Robots

Intelligent Control of Robotic Systems Laxmidhar Behera · 2020 · 696p · ≈ 23h · Moderate This book illustrates basic principles, along with the development of the advanced algorithms, to realize smart robotic systems. It speaks to strategies by which a robot (manipulators, mobile robot, quadrotor) can learn its own kinematics and dynamics from data. In this context, two major issues have been dealt with; namely, stability of the systems and experimental validations. Learning… Shares: Technology, Robots

A choice of gods Clifford D. Simak · 1971 · ★ 3.7 · 188p · ≈ 6h · Moderate One night in July, 2135, there were some eight billion people on Earth! The next morning there were perhaps 400. There was no clue to what had happened to the world's population—but, over the centuries that followed, still stranger things occurred. The human lifespan now stretched to millennia instead of decades, and much of the remaining population developed the ability to move at will among… Shares: Technology, Robots

Neural Networks for Robotics Nancy Arana-Daniel · 2018 · 228p · ≈ 7h · Moderate The book offers an insight on artificial neural networks for giving a robot a high level of autonomous tasks, such as navigation, cost mapping, object recognition, intelligent control of ground and aerial robots, and clustering, with real-time implementations. The reader will learn various methodologies that can be used to solve each stage on autonomous navigation for robots, from object… Shares: Engineering, Robots

Generation robot Terri Favro · 2018 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Moderate "Generation Robot covers a century of science fiction, fact and, speculation--from the 1950 publication of Isaac Asimov's seminal robot masterpiece, I, Robot, to the 2050 Singularity when artificial and human intelligence are predicted to merge. Beginning with a childhood informed by pop-culture robots in movies, in comic books, and on TV in the 1960s to adulthood where the possibilities of… Shares: Technology, Robots

Autonomous Mobile Robots in Unknown Outdoor Environments Xiaorui Zhu · 2017 · 255p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Mobile robots have been increasingly applied in many different scenarios, such as space exploration and search and rescue, where the robots are required to travel over uneven terrain while outdoors. This book provides a new framework and the related algorithms for designing autonomous mobile robotic systems in such unknown outdoor environments. Shares: Engineering, Robots

Robot Builder's Sourcebook Gordon McComb · 2002 · 711p · ≈ 23h · Moderate Written by Gordon McComb, author of the classic Robot Builder’s Bonanza, one of the most popular books ever written on amateur robotics, the Sourcebook lists over 2500 mail-order suppliers and other sources, including local-area businesses, cross-referenced and categorized to make your search quick and easy. You’ll find detailed information about the resources, including addresses and phone… Shares: Technology, Robots

Intelligent Robotics and Applications Honghai Liu · 2010 · 624p · ≈ 20h · Moderate This two volume set LNAI 8917 and 8918 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2014, held in Guangzhou, China, in December 2014. The 109 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 159 submissions. The papers aim at enhancing the sharing of individual experiences and expertise in… Shares: Motion, Robots

Electronic Skin Ali Ibrahim · 2020 · 250p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Considerable amount of effort has been devoted, over the recent years, towards the development of electronic skin (e-skin) for many application domains such as prosthetics, robotics, and industrial automation.Electronic Skin: Sensors and Systems focuses on the main components constituting the e-skin system. The e-skin system is based on: i) sensing materials composing the tactile sensor array,… Shares: Technology, Robots

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