eBook By Category (Robotics)

LEGO MINDSTORMS lets you design and program robots that can do just about anything! You've just purchased the LEGO MINDSTORMS Ultimate Builder Kit...

This self-contained volume surveys three decades of modern robot control theory and at the same time describes how the work of Suguru Arimoto shaped and influenced its development...

This text covers all the material needed to understand the principles behind the AI approach to robotics and to program an artificially intelligent robot for applications involving sensing, navigation, planning, and uncertainty...

Build a powerful and invincible robot--for full-blown competition or just for fun--using this authoritative robot resource...

The interest in climbing and walking robots (CLAWAR) has intensified in recent years, and novel solutions for complex and very diverse applications have been anticipated by means of significant progress in this area of robotics...

The interest in climbing and walking robots (CLAWAR) has remarkably augmented over recent years...

Microcomputer technology and micromechanical design have contributed to recent rapid advances in Robotics...

Robot control is the backbone of robotics, an essential discipline in the maintenance of high quality and productivity in modern industry...

Introduces the fundamental concepts of 'Designing Autonomous Mobile Robots'...

Cynthia Breazeal here presents her vision of the sociable robot of the future, a synthetic creature and not merely a sophisticated tool...

Robots, androids, and bionic people pervade popular culture, from classics like Frankenstein and R...

Electroactive polymers (EAPs) respond to electrical stimulation with large deformations...

This book presents a unique combination of mobile robots and embedded systems, from introductory to intermediate level...

This monograph covers theoretical aspects of simultaneous localization and map building for mobile robots, such as estimation stability, nonlinear models for the propagation of uncertainties, temporal landmark compatibility, as well as issues pertaining the coupling of control and SLAM...

This unique reference represents a cross-section of forefront robotics research, ranging from robotics and systems to learning, autonomy and failure detection, from vision and navigation to localization and mapping, which are based on the papers presented at the 1st European Robotics Symposium (EUROS-06) held in Palermo, Italy from 16-18 March, 2006...

Extreme NXT: Extending the LEGO MIDSTORMS NXT to the Next Level is for intermediate-level users of NXT who would like to advance their capabilities by learning some of the basics of electronics...

Since its inception in 1996, FSR, the biannual "International Conference on Field and Service Robotics" has published archival volumes of high reference value...

Modern robotics dates from the late 1960s, when progress in the development of microprocessors made possible the computer control of a multiaxial manipulator...

Tomorrow's robots, which includes the humanoid robot, can perform task like tutoring children, working as tour guides, driving humans to and from work, do the family shopping etc...

Geometric Fundamentals of Robotics provides an elegant introduction to the geometric concepts that are important to applications in robotics...

The Jetsons would be proud!

A gizmo as cool as Roomba just begs to be hacked...

There exists quite a vast literature on mobile robots, covering fundamental principles on motion control and path-planning in indoor environments using ultrasonic/laser transducers...

Here is a comprehensive presentation of methodology for the design and synthesis of an intelligent complex robotic system, connecting formal tools from discrete system theory, artificial intelligence, neural network, and fuzzy logic...

Mobile robots range from the teleoperated Sojourner on the Mars Pathfinder mission to cleaning robots in the Paris Metro...

LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT has hit the world by storm, giving you the ability to build your own robots and program them to perform all types of actions...

Several consistent solutions for cooperative system control have recently been identified by the authors of the current monograph...

This proceedings volume documents recent cutting-edge developments in multi-robot systems research...

From Robocop to the Terminator to Eve 8, no image better captures our deepest fears about technology than the cyborg, the person who is both flesh and metal, brain and electronics...

Parallel robots are closed-loop mechanisms presenting very good performances in terms of accuracy, velocity, rigidity and ability to manipulate large loads...

Here\'s everything the robotics hobbyist needs to harness the power of the PICMicro MCU! In this heavily-illustrated resource, author John Iovine provides plans and complete parts lists for 11 easy-to-build robots each with a PICMicro \"brain...

The book provides an in-depth and uniform treatment of a mathematical model for reasoning robotic agents...

#1 ROBOTICS BOOK OF ALL TIME SUPER-CHARGED BY A FAMOUS NEW CO-AUTHOR AND UPDATED TO REFLECT STATE-OF-THE-ART ADVANCES

Everybody's favorite amateur robotics book is bolder and better than ever -- and now features the field's "grand master" Myke Predko as the new author! Author duo McComb and Predko bring their expertise to this fully-illustrated robotics "bible" to enhance the already incomparable content on how to build -- and have a universe of fun -- with robots...

A leap forward in the field of robotics Until now, most of the advances in robotics have taken place in structured environments...

The field of Socially Intelligent Agents (SIA) is a fast growing and increasingly important area that comprises highly active research activities and strongly interdisciplinary approaches...

Using a project-oriented approach, The Unofficial Guide to LEGO(r) MINDSTORMS Robots introduces programming and constructing robots using the popular robotics invention...

This book deals with the main control aspects in underwater manipulation tasks...

As autonomous robots expand into the service domain, new solutions to the challenge of operating in domestic environments must be developed...

From car manufacturing to the production of niche products, welding is now one of the most widespread and successful applications of industrial robotics...