
Mobile robots range from the teleoperated Sojourner on the Mars Pathfinder mission to cleaning robots in the Paris Metro. Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots offers students and other...
- Category: Robotics
- Release Date: 2004-04-01 00:00:00
- Tags: Introduction, Autonomous, Mobile, Robots, Intelligent, Robotics, Autonomous, Agents,

Using a project-oriented approach, The Unofficial Guide to LEGO(r) MINDSTORMS Robots introduces programming and constructing robots using the popular robotics invention. While presenting four...
- Category: Robotics
- Release Date: 1999-10-01 00:00:00
- Tags: Unofficial, Guide, LEGO, MINDSTORMS, Robots,

Modern robotics dates from the late 1960s, when progress in the development of microprocessors made possible the computer control of a multiaxial manipulator. Since then, robotics has evolved to...
- Category: Robotics
- Release Date: 2002-10-16 00:00:00
- Tags: Fundamentals, Robotic, Mechanical, Systems,

Here's 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...

Designing Autonomous Mobile Robots introduces the reader to the fundamental concepts of this complex field. The author addresses all the pertinent topics of the electronic hardware and software...
- Category: Robotics
- Release Date: 2003-12-15 00:00:00
- Tags: Designing, Autonomous, Mobile, Robots, Inside, Mind, Intelligent, Machine,

A leap forward in the field of robotics Until now, most of the advances in robotics have taken place in structured environments. Scientists and engineers have designed highly sophisticated...
- Category: Robotics
- Release Date: 2005-11-04 00:00:00
- Tags: Sensing, Intelligence, Motion, How, Robots, Humans, Move, Unstructured, World,

The book provides an in-depth and uniform treatment of a mathematical model for reasoning robotic agents. The book also contains an introduction to a programming method and system based on...

The field of Socially Intelligent Agents (SIA) is a fast growing and increasingly important area that comprises highly active research activities and strongly interdisciplinary approaches....
- Category: Robotics
- Release Date: 2006-01-31 00:00:00
- Tags: Socially, Intelligent, Agents, Creating, Relationships, Computers, Robots, MULTIAGENT, SYSTEMS, ARTIFICIAL, SOCIETIES, SIMULATED, Multiagent, Systems, Societies, Simulated, Organizations,

The Robotics and Automation Handbook addresses the major aspects of designing, fabricating, and enabling robotics systems and their various applications. The chapters cover the development and...
- Category: Robotics
- Release Date: 2004-06-15 00:00:00
- Tags: Robotics, Automation, Handbook,

LEGO MINDSTORMS lets you design and program robots that can do just about anything! You've just purchased the LEGO MINDSTORMS Ultimate Builder Kit. Now what? Overwhelmed by the creative...

This book deals with 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...

There exists quite a vast literature on mobile robots, covering fundamental principles on motion control and path-planning in indoor environments using ultrasonic/laser transducers. However,...
- Category: Robotics
- Release Date: 2006-06-02 00:00:00
- Tags: Innovations, Robot, Mobility, Control, Studies, Computational, Intelligence,

This book presents a unique combination of mobile robots and embedded systems, from introductory to intermediate level. It is structured in three parts, dealing with embedded systems (hardware...

Parallel robots are closed-loop mechanisms presenting very good performances in terms of accuracy, velocity, rigidity and ability to manipulate large loads. They have been used in a large number...

Handy collection of straightforward, to the point definitions is exactly what robotics and artificial intelligence hobbyists need to get and stay up to speed, with all new terms that have...
- Category: Robotics
- Release Date: 2002-11-12 00:00:00
- Tags: Concise, Encyclopedia, Robotics,

Robots, androids, and bionic people pervade popular culture, from classics like Frankenstein and R.U.R. to modern tales such as The Six Million Dollar Man, The Terminator, and A.I. Our...

Cynthia Breazeal here presents her vision of the sociable robot of the future, a synthetic creature and not merely a sophisticated tool. A sociable robot will be able to understand us, to...
- Category: Robotics
- Release Date: 2002-05-04 00:00:00
- Tags: Designing, Sociable, Robots, Intelligent, Robotics, Autonomous, Agents,

LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT has hit the world by storm, giving you the ability to build your own robots and program them to perform all types of actions. What kind of robots? How about five exploratory...
- Category: Robotics
- Release Date: 2006-12-11 00:00:00
- Tags: LEGO, Mindstorms, NXT, Mayan, Adventure, Technology, Action,

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...

The interest in climbing and walking robots (CLAWAR) has intensified in recent years, and novel solutions for complex and very diverse applications have been anticipated by means of significant...
- Category: Robotics
- Release Date: 2006-03-01 00:00:00
- Tags: Climbing, Walking, Robots, Proceedings, 8th, International, Conference, Climbing, Walking, Robots, Support, Technologies, Mobile, Machines, CLAWAR, 2005,

The interest in climbing and walking robots (CLAWAR) has remarkably augmented over recent years. Novel solutions for complex and very diverse application fields (exploration/intervention in...
- Category: Robotics
- Release Date: 2005-10-01 00:00:00
- Tags: Climbing, Walking, Robots, Proceedings, 7th, International, Conference, CLAWAR, 2004,

#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...

Here is a comprehensive presentation of methodology for the design and synthesis of an intelligent complex robotic system, connecting formal tools from discrete system theory, artificial...
- Category: Robotics
- Release Date: 1999-01-31 00:00:00
- Tags: Intelligent, Robotic, Systems, Design, Planning, Control, IFSR, International, Series, Systems, Science, Engineering,

Since its inception in 1996, FSR, the biannual `International Conference on Field and Service Robotics` has published archival volumes of high reference value. This unique collection is the...

The 5th International Conference on Field and Service Robotics (FSR05) was held in Port Douglas, Australia, on 29th - 31st July 2005, and brought together the worlds' leading experts in field...

As autonomous robots expand into the service domain, new solutions to the challenge of operating in domestic environments must be developed. Widespread adoption of service robots demands high...
- Category: Robotics
- Release Date: 2006-10-05 00:00:00
- Tags: Visual, Perception, Robotic, Manipulation, Object, Recognition, Tracking, Hand, Eye, Coordination, Springer, Tracts, Advanced, Robotics,

Electroactive polymers (EAPs) respond to electrical stimulation with large deformations. They are dynamic actuators which have attracted attention from an interdisciplinary audience of engineers...
- Category: Robotics
- Release Date: 2007-01-11 00:00:00
- Tags: Electroactive, Polymers, Robotic, Applications, Artificial, Muscles, Sensors,

This monograph covers theoretical aspects of simultaneous localization and map building for mobile robots, such as estimation stability, nonlinear models for the propagation of uncertainties,...
- Category: Robotics
- Release Date: 2006-06-30 00:00:00
- Tags: Environment, Learning, Indoor, Mobile, Robots, Stochastic, State, Estimation, Approach, Simultaneous, Localization, Map, Building, Springer, Tracts, Advanced, Robotics,

This proceedings volume documents recent cutting-edge developments in multi-robot systems research. This volume is the result of the Third International workshop on Multi-Robot Systems that was...

From Robocop to the Terminator to Eve 8, no image better captures our deepest fears about technology than the cyborg, the person who is both flesh and metal, brain and electronics. But...
- Category: Robotics
- Release Date: 2003-04-01 00:00:00
- Tags: Natural, Born, Cyborgs, Minds, Technologies, Future, Human, Intelligence,

