Service Robots and Robotics: Design and Application (Premier Reference Source) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1466602910 ISBN 13: 9781466602915

Publisher: Igi Global Scientific Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

Service robots serve a wide range of people in residential, commercial, industrial, military, and many more applied fields. Service Robots and Robotics: Design and Application offers the latest research within the field, combining a mixture of case studies, research, and future directions. Staying abreast of the latest research within the field not only affords practitioners and academics the foot forward they need, it allows for a comprehensive look into the latest advances in a burgeoning field of technology. From tasks no humans can do to everyday tasks for the disabled and elderly, service robots are an enormously important facet of modern technology, and this volume offers a current look into their state of the art.

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About the Author

Marco Ceccarelli is Full Professor of Mechanics of Machinery and Director of LARM, Laboratory of Robotics and Mechatronics at University of Cassino. He is a member of Robotics Commission of IFToMM, the International Federation for the Promotion of Machine and Mechanism Science. He has written the books Fundamentals of Mechanics of Robotic Manipulation in 2004 and Mecanismos in 2008. He is current President of IFToMM. His research interests are in mechanics of mechanisms and robots. He is author/co-author of 500 papers, presented at conferences or published in journals, he has edited 14 books, and conference proceedings and specific topics.

Edition details

• Publisher: Igi Global Scientific Publishing
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1466602910
• ISBN 13: 9781466602915
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 419
• Editor: Ceccarelli Marco