Geometric and Numerical Foundations of Movements (Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics)

Hardcover, x + 419 pages, NOT ex-library. Interior is clean and bright throughout with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Boards show gentle handling wear. Issued without a dust jacket. -- Contents: Robot Motion Planning and Control: Is It More than a Technological Problem? / Mehdi Benallegue, Jean-Paul Laumond, Nicolas Mansard; Part I Geometry, Action and Movement -- Several Geometries for Movements Generations / Daniel Bennequin, Alain Berthoz; On the Duration of Human Movement: From Self-paced to Slow/Fast Reaches up to Fitts's Law / Frédéric Jean, Bastien Berret; Geometric and Numerical Aspects of Redundancy / Pierre-Brice Wieber, Adrien Escande, Dimitar Dimitrov, Alexander Sherikov; Part II Numerical Analysis and Optimization -- Some Recent Directions in Algebraic Methods for Optimization and Lyapunov Analysis / Amir Ali Ahmadi, Pablo A. Parrilo; Positivity Certificates in Optimal Control / Edouard Pauwels, Didier Henrion, Jean-Bernard Lasserre; Interplay Between Big Data and Sparsity in Systems Identification / O. Camps, M. Sznaier; Part III Foundation of Human Movement -- Inverse Optimal Control as a Tool to Understand Human Movement / Katja Mombaur, Debora Clever; Versatile Interaction Control and Haptic Identification in Humans and Robots / Yanan Li, Nathanael Jarrassé, Etienne Burdet; Variational Principles of Action / Karl Friston; Modeling of Coordinated Human Body Motion by Learning of Structured Dynamic Representations / Albert Mukovskiy et al; Physical Interaction via Dynamic Primitives / Neville Hogan; Human Control of Interactions with Objects: Variability, Stability and Predictability / Dagmar Sternad; Part IV Robot Motion Generation -- Momentum-Centered Control of Contact Interactions / Ludovic Righetti, Alexander Herzog; A Tutorial on Newton Methods for Constrained Trajectory Optimization and Relations to SLAM, Gaussian Process Smoothing, Optimal Control, and Probabilistic Inference / Marc Toussaint; Optimal Control of Variable Stiffness Policies: Dealing with Switching Dynamics and Model Mismatch / Andreea Radulescu, Jun Nakanishi, David J. Braun, Sethu Vijayakumar -- This book aims at gathering roboticists, control theorists, neuroscientists, and mathematicians, in order to promote a multidisciplinary research on movement analysis. It follows the workshop 'Geometric and Numerical Foundations of Movements' held at LAAS-CNRS in Toulouse in November 2015. Its objective is to lay the foundations for a mutual understanding that is essential for synergetic development in motion research. In particular, the book promotes applications to robotics - and control in general - of new optimization techniques based on recent results from real algebraic geometry. …