Springer Handbook of Robotics - Hardcover

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9783540239574: Springer Handbook of Robotics

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 354023957X ISBN 13: 9783540239574

Publisher: Springer, 2008

With the science of robotics undergoing a major transformation just now, Springer’s new, authoritative handbook on the subject couldn’t have come at a better time. Having broken free from its origins in industry, robotics has been rapidly expanding into the challenging terrain of unstructured environments. Unlike other handbooks that focus on industrial applications, the Springer Handbook of Robotics incorporates these new developments. Just like all Springer Handbooks, it is utterly comprehensive, edited by internationally renowned experts, and replete with contributions from leading researchers from around the world. The handbook is an ideal resource for robotics experts but also for people new to this expanding field.

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From the Back Cover:

Reaching for the human frontier, robotics is vigorously engaged in the growing challenges of new emerging domains. Interacting, exploring, and working with humans, the new generation of robots will increasingly touch people and their lives. The credible prospect of practical robots among humans is the result of the scientific endeavour of a half a century of robotic developments that established robotics as a modern scientific discipline. The Springer Handbook of Robotics brings a widespread
and well-structured compilation of classic and emerging application areas of robotics. From the foundations to the social and ethical implications of robotics, the handbook provides a comprehensive collection of the accomplishments in the field, and constitutes a premise of further advances towards new challenges in robotics.
This handbook, edited by two internationally renowned scientists with the support of an outstanding team of seven part editors and onehundred sixty-four authors, is an authoritative reference for robotics researchers, newcomers to the field, and scholars from related disciplines such as biomechanics, neurosciences, virtual simulation, animation, surgery, and sensor networks among others.

Key Topics

Robotics foundations
Robot structures
Sensing and perception
Manipulation and interfaces
Mobile and distributed robotics
Field and service robotics
Human-centered and life-like robotics

Features

Comprehensive coverage of research and development in robotics
Scientific resource for both experts and non experts in the field
Technical contents laid out in a tutorial setting
A coherent three-layer organization: robotics foundations, consolidated
methodologies and technologies, advanced applications
Anchored in seven parts expanded into sixty-four chapters with interconnected
presentation of subject matter
Developed in about 1650 pages with over 950 color illustrations including
422 four-color, 80 tables and over 5500 references
Detailed index and fully searchable DVD-ROM providing rapid access to
data and links to other source

About the Author:

Bruno Siciliano is Professor of Control and Robotics at the University of Naples Federico II in Italy, President of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, and a Fellow of both IEEE and ASME.

Oussama Khatib is Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University in the USA, President of the International Foundation of Robotics Research, an IEEE Fellow, and a recipient of the Japan Robot Association Award in Research and Development.

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