Modern Robot Kinematics: Serial, Parallel, and Mobile Systems (Robotics Engineering and Intelligence) - Softcover

Thomas, Gareth

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798267795579

Publisher: Independently published, 2025

Synopsis

💡 Note: This book is written for serious engineers and researchers who want rigorous, high-level technical insight. It’s dense, detailed, and assumes prior familiarity with advanced concepts.
If you value precision, depth, and professional-grade explanations—you’ll find this book indispensable.

Robots don’t move by magic. Behind every manipulator, every mobile platform, every aerial or underwater vehicle is a precise mathematical engine: kinematics. If you don’t understand it, you’re guessing. And guessing doesn’t build robots that work.

This book is not beginner fluff. It’s a rigorous, hard-hitting manual for engineers, researchers, and serious robotics professionals who need to master the geometry of motion—fast, clean, and without shortcuts.

Inside you’ll discover:

• Serial Chains Demystified – From SCARA arms to 6-DOF manipulators, get the full breakdown of forward and inverse kinematics, workspace limits, and singularities.

• Parallel Robots Unlocked – Stewart platforms, Delta robots, cable-driven systems… and the non-linear math that makes them tick.

• Mobile Bases and Locomotion – Differential drive, omniwheels, tracked vehicles, and legged systems from bipeds to quadrupeds. Understand how real robots move across real terrain.

• Velocity Kinematics and Jacobians – Learn how to bridge joint space and task space, detect singularities before they break your system, and design redundancy resolution strategies that work.

• Beyond the Basics – Underactuated drones, underwater vehicles, aerial manipulators, and collaborative robots are dissected with the same mathematical rigor.

Every chapter is built on formal derivations, clean mathematical structure, and real-world examples—from industrial arms like the PUMA 560 to cutting-edge quadrupeds and UAVs.

If you’re serious about robotics, this book will sharpen your edge, expand your toolkit, and keep you ahead of the engineers who are still fumbling with guesswork.

No filler. No shortcuts. Just the mathematics of motion, laid bare.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798267795579
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 429