Robot Modelling and Control

Spong, Mark W.; Hutchinson, Seth; Vidyasagar, M.

ISBN 10: 0471649902 / ISBN 13: 9780471649908

Published by John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2005

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Bibliographic Details

Title: Robot Modelling and Control

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Publication Date: 2005

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: VeryGood

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Synopsis:

Robot Modeling and Control introduces the fundamentals of robot modeling and control and provides background material on terminology, linear algebra, dynamical systems and stability theory, followed by detailed coverage of forward and in-verse kinematics, Jacobians, Lagrangian dynamics, motion planning, robust and adaptive motion and force control, and com-puter vision.  Both basic and advanced material is presented in a style that is readable and mathematically rigorous.  The book provides relevant applications from industrial robotics and mobile robotics. Suitable for a one or two term course, this text is appropriate for undergraduate and graduate students from electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, computer science, and mathematics and can be used as a research reference. Many detailed worked examples and extensive problems illustrate theory and point the reader to more advanced topics.

From the Back Cover:

"The coverage is unparalleled in both depth and breadth. No other text that I have seen offers a better complete overview of modern robotic manipulation and robot control."
–– Bradley Bishop, United States Naval Academy

Based on the highly successful classic, Robot Dynamics and Control, by Spong and Vidyasagar (Wiley, 1989), Robot Modeling and Control offers a thoroughly up-to-date, self-contained introduction to the field. The text presents basic and advanced material in a style that is at once readable and mathematically rigorous.

Key Features

A step-by-step computational approach helps you derive and compute the forward kinematics, inverse kinematics, and Jacobians for the most common robot designs.
Detailed coverage of vision and visual servo control enables you to program robots to manipulate objects sensed by cameras.
An entire chapter on dynamics prepares you to compute the dynamics of the most common manipulator designs.
The most common motion planning and trajectory generation algorithms are presented in an elementary style.
The comprehensive treatment of motion and force control includes both basic and advanced methods.
The text’s treatment of geometric nonlinear control is more readable than in more advanced texts.
Many worked examples and an extensive list of problems illustrate all aspects of the theory.

About the authors

Mark W. Spong is Donald Biggar Willett Professor of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Spong is the 2005 President of the IEEE Control Systems Society and past Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology.

Seth Hutchinson is currently a Professor at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, and a senior editor of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation. He has published extensively on the topics of robotics and computer vision.

Mathukumalli Vidyasagar is currently Executive Vice President in charge of Advanced Technology at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India's largest IT firm. Dr. Vidyasagar was formerly the director of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR), under Government of India’s Ministry of Defense.