Theory of Applied Robotics

This user-friendly book presents a wealth of robotics topics at a theoretical-practical level, most notably orientation, velocity, and forward kinematics. It explains robotics concepts in detail, concentrating on their practical use. More than 300 detaile...

  CD-ROM Robotics Actuators and Sensors - Mechanicals and Electronic PC

Sur le chemin de la robotique, l'électronique se met en cheville avec la micro-informatique et la mécanique. Quel joyeux trio ! Elles s'entendent comme larrons en foire. Ceci n'est pas étonnant, car s'il reste aujourd'hui un champ d'expérimentation p...

  Handbook of Industrial Robotics Endorsed by the robotic industries association

120 leading experts from twelve countries have participated in creating this Second Edition of the Handbook of Industrial Robotics. Of its 66 chapters, 33 are new, covering important new topics in the theory, design, control, and applications of robotics....

 Robot Builder's Bonanza Featuring 30 entirely new projects

#1 ROBOTICS BOOK OF ALL TIME SUPER-CHARGED BY A FAMOUS NEW CO-AUTHOR AND UPDATED TO REFLECT STATE-OF-THE-ART ADVANCES Everybody's favorite amateur robotics book is bolder and better than ever -- and now features the field's "grand master" Myke Predko...

 Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics I

This book contains a collection of papers presented at the 1st International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO). The purpose of ICINCO is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested in the appl...

 Linux Robotics Programming Smarter Robots

Robotics is becoming an increasingly popular field for hobbyists and professionals alike. The cost of the mechanics and electronics required to build a robot are low enough that almost anybody can afford it. The hardware that used to require government fu...

 Welding Robots Technology, System and Applications

From car manufacturing to the production of niche products, welding is now one of the most widespread and successful applications of industrial robotics. Welding Robotics: Technology, System Issues and Application is a detailed overview of robotic weld...

 Probabilistic Robotics

Probabilistic robotics is a new and growing area in robotics, concerned with perception and control in the face of uncertainty. Building on the field of mathematical statistics, probabilistic robotics endows robots with a new level of robustness in real-w...

 Scientific Methods in Mobile Robotics Quantitative Analysis of Agent Behaviour

Mobile robotics is a cutting-edge research topic, which until recently has primarily focused on issues such as the design of controllers and robot hardware. The field is now ready to embrace theoretical methods from dynamical systems theory, statistics an...

 Geometric Fundamentals of Robotics

Geometric Fundamentals of Robotics provides an elegant introduction to the geometric concepts that are important to applications in robotics. This second edition is still unique in providing a deep understanding of the subject: rather than focusing on com...

 Robotics Demystified A self-teaching guide

You don't need artificial intelligence to learn robotics! Now anyone with an interest in robotics can gain a deeper understanding - without formal training, unlimited time, or a genius IQ. In Robotics Demystified, expert robot builder and author Edw...

 Introduction to Robotics Mechanics and Control

For senior-year or first-year graduate level robotics courses generally taught from the mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, or computer science departments. Since its original publication in 1986, Craig's Introduction to Robotics: Mecha...

 Mobile Robotic Car Design

Build A Car Robot, Save Thousands (and master saint of the most sophisticated concepts in robotics) This thoughtful guide gives you complete, illustrated plans and instructions for building a 1:10-scale car robot that would cost thousands of doll...

 Modeling, Identification and Control of Robots

Written by two of Europe's leading robotics experts, this unique book provides the tools for a unified approach to the modeling of robotic manipulators, whatever their mechanical structure. It covers the development of various mathematical models required...

 Definitive Guide to Lego Mindstorms

The LEGO MINDSTORMS Robotics Invention System kit enables anyone to build a programmable robot with an assortment of LEGO pieces that snap, slide, and click into place. In this exciting second edition from MINDSTORMS expert Dave Baum, readers will be able...

 Soccer robotics

This monograph is a comprehensive introduction to the field of soccer robotics. Soccer robotics has become an important research area integrating mechatronics, computer science and artificial intelligence techniques to create real-world autonomous systems...

 Evolutionary robotics The biology, intelligence, and technology of self-organizing machines

Evolutionary robotics is a new technique for the automatic creation of autonomous robots. Inspired by the Darwinian principle of selective reproduction of the fittest, it views robots as autonomous artificial organisms that develop their own skills in clo...

 Robots and Screw Theory Applications of kinematics and statics to robotics

This book describes the mathematical foundations, especially geometric, underlying the motions and force-transfers in robots. The principles developed can be applied to both control of robots and the design of their major moving parts. Containing many ill...

 Robot builder's sourcebook Over 2500 sources for Robot Parts

* A much-needed clearinghouse for information on amateur and educational robotics, containing over 2000 listings of robot suppliers, including mail order and local area businesses * Contains resources for both common and hard-to-find parts and supplies ...

 Mobile robotics A practical introduction

Mobile Robotics: A Practical Introduction (2nd edition) is an excellent introduction to the foundations and methods used for designing completely autonomous mobile robots. A fascinating, cutting-edge, research topic, autonomous mobile robotics is now tau...

 Robot Programming A Practical Guide to Behavior-Based Robotics

MASTER ROBOT PROGRAMMING ITH YOUR OWN FREE VIRTUAL BOT! This ingenious book/Web site partnership teaches the skills you need to program a robot -- and gives you a virtual robot waiting online to perform your commands and test your programming expert...

 PIC robotics A beginner's guide to robotics projects using thePICmicro

Heres everything the robotics hobbyist needs to harness the power of the PICMicro MCU! In this heavily-illustrated resource, author John Iovine provides plans and complete parts lists for 11 easy-to-build robots each with a PICMicro brain." The expert...

 PDA Robotics

PDAs and robotics come together in this innovative resource! Here is the ONLY BOOK to provide in-depth designs and concepts on how to create a robot that utilizes your PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) as the remote control or "brains." Allows any PDA to...

 Control Problems in Robotics

This book aims at reporting some of the most challenging open problems of control theoretic nature raised by robotics applications. Topics covered in the book represent many of the most innovative areas in contemporary robotics research, with special emph...