Crash Course On The Anatomy Of Robots

Author : Kent Evans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Artists
ISBN : 193854501X

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Crash Course on the Anatomy of Robots by Kent Evans Pdf

Damien Wood's path to adulthood in the last decade of the 20th century is marked with effortless success--creative, financial, sexual. Yet his half-Asian lineage with its inherent cultural clashes is coupled with the inability to be touched by feelings or the people around him. Damien's efforts to reach his inner self take him from place to place and one hollow relationship to another, but he remains stuck outside of his experiences, a robot convincingly playing the role of daredevil artist and globetrotter.Then, the century turns. As Damien's mother dies after a long and agonizing illness, and 9/11 inaugurates a reign of fear and terror, his emotions, from desire to despair, begin to emerge unbidden. These birth pangs of humanity send Damien on a mordantly comic, darkly suspenseful quest from the Americas through Southeast Asia in the company of an expatriate colony with too little to lose - including values - until violence comes to claim him as one of its own. No longer a robot, Damien has become a wanted man.A daring hybrid of adventure, verse, and travel fiction, framed by a chronicle of self-revelation in a pitch-perfect voice for the post-millennium, this book heralds the return of a novelist of impressive literary gifts.

Author : Charles Bergren
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2003-04-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780071429306

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Anatomy of a Robot by Charles Bergren Pdf

This work looks under the hood of all robotic projects, stimulating teachers, students, and hobbyists to learn more about the gamut of areas associated with control systems and robotics. It offers a unique presentation in providing both theory and philosophy in a technical yet entertaining way.

Author : V. Daniel Hunt
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-02
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780323156813

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Understanding Robotics by V. Daniel Hunt Pdf

Understanding Robotics is an introductory text on robotics and covers topics ranging from from the components of a robotic system, including sensors, to the industrial applications of robotics. The major factors justifying the use of robots for manufacturing are also discussed, along with the use of robots as a manufacturing tool, their impact on people, and the future of robotics. This book is comprised of eight chapters and begins with an overview of the roots of robotics and the use of robots in the manufacturing environment; advances in robot technology and typical applications of robots; reasons for using robots in the manufacturing environment; and the different manufacturing functions they perform, including visual inspection and intricate welding operations. A definition of the word ""robot"" is presented, and the impact of robots on jobs is considered. Subsequent chapters focus on the elements of a robot system, including the computer/controller, actuator power drive, and sensors; sensor applications in robotics; robotic usage by industry; economic justification of robotics; manufacturing technology and the role robotics can play in improving the United States' competitive manufacturing position; and the impact of robots on people and vice versa. The final chapter is devoted to market trends and competitiveness of the U.S. robotics industry and assesses the future prospects of robotics. This monograph should be a valuable resource for technologists and researchers interested in robots and robotics.

Author : Richard M. Murray
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-14
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781351469791

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A Mathematical Introduction to Robotic Manipulation by Richard M. Murray Pdf

A Mathematical Introduction to Robotic Manipulation presents a mathematical formulation of the kinematics, dynamics, and control of robot manipulators. It uses an elegant set of mathematical tools that emphasizes the geometry of robot motion and allows a large class of robotic manipulation problems to be analyzed within a unified framework. The foundation of the book is a derivation of robot kinematics using the product of the exponentials formula. The authors explore the kinematics of open-chain manipulators and multifingered robot hands, present an analysis of the dynamics and control of robot systems, discuss the specification and control of internal forces and internal motions, and address the implications of the nonholonomic nature of rolling contact are addressed, as well. The wealth of information, numerous examples, and exercises make A Mathematical Introduction to Robotic Manipulation valuable as both a reference for robotics researchers and a text for students in advanced robotics courses.

Author : J. O. Gray,Darwin G. Caldwell
Publisher : IET
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0852968531

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Advanced Robotics & Intelligent Machines by J. O. Gray,Darwin G. Caldwell Pdf

Advanced robotics describes the use of sensor-based robotic devices which exploit powerful computers to achieve the high levels of functionality that begin to mimic intelligent human behaviour. The object of this book is to summarise developments in the base technologies, survey recent applications and highlight new advanced concepts which will influence future progress.

Author : Adam Morecki,Jozef Knapczyk
Publisher : Springer
Page : 589 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783709125328

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Basics of Robotics by Adam Morecki,Jozef Knapczyk Pdf

This volume contains the basic concepts of modern robotics, basic definitions, systematics of robots in industry, service, medicine and underwater activity. Important information on walking and mili-walking machines are included as well as possible applications of microrobots in medicine, agriculture, underwater activity.

Author : Achim Schweikard,Floris Ernst
Publisher : Springer
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-08
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319228914

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Medical Robotics by Achim Schweikard,Floris Ernst Pdf

This book provides a thorough background to the emerging field of medical robotics. It covers the mathematics needed to understand the use of robotic devices in medicine, including but not limited to robot kinematics, hand-eye and robot-world calibration, reconstruction, registration, motion planning, motion prediction, motion correlation, motion replication and motion learning. Additionally, basic methods behind state-of-the art robots like the DaVinci system, the CyberKnife, motorized C-arms and operating microscopes as well as stereotactic frames are presented. The book is a text book for undergraduates in computer science and engineering. The main idea of the book is to motivate the methods in robotics in medical applications rather than industrial applications. The book then follows the standard path for a robotics textbook. It is thus suitable for a first course in robotics for undergraduates. It is the first textbook on medical robotics.

Author : Alan Winfield
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-27
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780191646485

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Robotics: A Very Short Introduction by Alan Winfield Pdf

Robotics is a key technology in the modern world. Robots are a well-established part of manufacturing and warehouse automation, assembling cars or washing machines, and, for example, moving goods to and from storage racks for Internet mail order. More recently robots have taken their first steps into homes and hospitals, and seen spectacular success in planetary exploration. Yet, despite these successes, robots have failed to live up to the predictions of the 1950s and 60s, when it was widely thought - by scientists and engineers as well as the public - that by turn of the 21st century we would have intelligent robots as butlers, companions, or co-workers. This Very Short Introduction explains how it is that robotics can be both a success story and a disappointment, how robots can be both ordinary and remarkable, and looks at their important developments in science and their applications to everyday life. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Author : Edward L. Safford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Machine theory
ISBN : UOM:39076006738285

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The Complete Handbook of Robotics by Edward L. Safford Pdf

A handbook for designing your own robot. Complete with instructions on how to interface robots with computers for any purpose.

Author : Joseph F. Engelberger
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781468471205

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Robotics in Practice by Joseph F. Engelberger Pdf

THE REAL THING by Isaac Asimov Back in 1939, when I was still a teenager, I began to write (and publish) a series of stories about robots which, for the first time in science fiction, were pictured as having been deliberately engineered to do their job safely. They were not intended to be creaky Gothic menaces, nor outlets for mawkish sentiment. They were simply well-designed machines. Beginning in 1942, I crystallized this notion in what I called 'The Three Laws of Robotics' and, in 1950, nine of my robot stories were collected into a book, I, Robot. I did not at that time seriously believe that I would live to see robots in action and robotics becoming a booming industry .... Yet here we are, better yet, I am alive to see it. But then, why shouldn't they be with us? Robots fulfil an important role in industry. They do simple and repetitive jobs more steadily, more reliably, and more uncomplainingly than a human being could - or should. Does a robot displace a human being? Certainly, but he does so at a job that, simply because a robot can do it, is beneath the dignity of a human being; a job that is no more than mindless drudgery. Better and more human jobs can be found for human beings - and should.

Author : D. J. Todd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1986-07-02
Category : Computers
ISBN : UOM:39015010488602

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Fundamentals of Robot Technology by D. J. Todd Pdf

A thorough introduction to all aspects of robotics emphasizing its potential in industry. Provides coverage of industrial robots, remotely controlled arms, and mobile robots. Begins with a preliminary discussion of basic concepts and terms, and goes on to cover various applications. Summarizes the uses and engineering of telechiric manipulators and mobile robots.

Author : Arthur J. Critchlow
Publisher : MacMillan Publishing Company
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : UOM:39015018231301

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Introduction to Robotics by Arthur J. Critchlow Pdf

Author : V. Hunt
Publisher : Springer
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1985-06-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780412005312

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Smart Robots by V. Hunt Pdf

Here is one of the first really thorough presentations on smart robots. Robots, machine vision systems, sensors, manipulators, expert systems, and artificial intelligence concepts combined in state-of-the-art computer integrated manufacturing systems. These "smart" robots increase produc tivity and improve the quality of our products. This comprehensive volume, which is extensively illustrated, provides a unique synthesis and overview of the emerging field of smart robots, the basic approaches for each of the constituents systems, the techniques used, applications, the descriptions of current hardware or software projects, a review of the state-of-the-art of the technology, current research and development efforts, and trends in the development of smart robots. All of the information has been compiled from a wide variety of knowledgeable sources and recent government reports. An extensive selection of photo graphs, diagrams and charts amplify this book. The contents of major chapters include: • Introduction to smart robots • Artificial intelligence for smart robots • Smart robot systems • Sensor-controlled robots • Machine vision systems • Robot manipulators • Natural language processing • Expert systems and • Computer integrated manufacturing Smart Robots presents the state-of-the-art in intelligent robots. It is designed to help the reader develop an understanding of industrial applications of smart robots as well as the new technological develop ments. Smart Robots is an outstanding introduction to the integration and application of machine vision systems, sensors, expert systems, and artificial intelligence technology.

Author : Edward L. Safford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : UOM:49015000613498

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Handbook of Advanced Robotics by Edward L. Safford Pdf

Author : Mark E. Rosheim
Publisher : Wiley-Interscience
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1994-08-11
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : UOM:39015026901499

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Robot Evolution by Mark E. Rosheim Pdf

The ancient Greeks built automata, as did the Egyptians and the Japanese. Leonardo da Vinci designed mechanical men, and entertainment robots were all the rage in eighteenth-century Europe.