Design and Implementation of Eight-Legged Robotic Transporter
Design and Implementation of Eight-Legged Robotic Transporter

Author: Jeremy DePangher

Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing

Published: 2014-06-04

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 9783659550263

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In this age of rapidly developing technology, each and every design meant to improve the livelihood of others is examined critically to determine if it can itself be improved. The project undertaken in this book contains fresh ideas for improving the efficiency of travel for the physically impaired. People in wheelchairs often face many difficulties both physically and emotionally as they travel around, desperately attempting to avoid as many obstacles as possible. This project involves the creation of a functional eight-legged robotic transporter prototype meant to address the difficulties faced by those confined to wheelchairs. The research conducted in this project recognizes that the key to efficiency within this design is its adaptability to the environment. Explore the obstacles this device faces as it travels from design to manufacturing, manufacturing to testing, and finally from testing to ideas for future research and development.

Introduction to Robotics
Introduction to Robotics

Author: Saeed B. Niku

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2020-02-10

Total Pages: 530

ISBN-13: 1119527627

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The revised text to the analysis, control, and applications of robotics The revised and updated third edition of Introduction to Robotics: Analysis, Control, Applications, offers a guide to the fundamentals of robotics, robot components and subsystems and applications. The author—a noted expert on the topic—covers the mechanics and kinematics of serial and parallel robots, both with the Denavit-Hartenberg approach as well as screw-based mechanics. In addition, the text contains information on microprocessor applications, control systems, vision systems, sensors, and actuators. Introduction to Robotics gives engineering students and practicing engineers the information needed to design a robot, to integrate a robot in appropriate applications, or to analyze a robot. The updated third edition contains many new subjects and the content has been streamlined throughout the text. The new edition includes two completely new chapters on screw-based mechanics and parallel robots. The book is filled with many new illustrative examples and includes homework problems designed to enhance learning. This important text: Offers a revised and updated guide to the fundamental of robotics Contains information on robot components, robot characteristics, robot languages, and robotic applications Covers the kinematics of serial robots with Denavit-Hartenberg methodology and screw-based mechanics Includes the fundamentals of control engineering, including analysis and design tools Discusses kinematics of parallel robots Written for students of engineering as well as practicing engineers, Introduction to Robotics, Third Edition reviews the basics of robotics, robot components and subsystems, applications, and has been revised to include the most recent developments in the field.

Design of Dynamic Legged Robots
Design of Dynamic Legged Robots

Author: Sangbae Kim

Publisher:

Published: 2017-03-20

Total Pages: 86

ISBN-13: 9781680832563

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Focuses on the mechanical design of legged robots, from the history through to the present day. Discusses some of the main challenges to actuator design in legged robots and examines a recently developed technology called proprioceptive actuators in order to meet the needs of today's legged machines.

Adaptive Mobile Robotics
Adaptive Mobile Robotics

Author: Abul K. M. Azad

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 904

ISBN-13: 9814415944

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This book provides state-of-the-art scientific and engineering research findings and developments in the area of mobile robotics and associated support technologies. The book contains peer reviewed articles presented at the CLAWAR 2012 conference. Robots are no longer confined to industrial and manufacturing environments. A great deal of interest is invested in the use of robots outside the factory environment. The CLAWAR conference series, established as a high profile international event, acts as a platform for dissemination of research and development findings and supports such a trend to address the current interest in mobile robotics to meet the needs of mankind in various sectors of the society. These include personal care, public health, services in the domestic, public and industrial environments. The editors of the book have extensive research experience and publications in the area of robotics in general and in mobile robotics specifically, and their experience is reflected in editing the contents of the book.

Legged Robots that Balance
Legged Robots that Balance

Author: Marc H. Raibert

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 9780262181174

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This book, by a leading authority on legged locomotion, presents exciting engineering and science, along with fascinating implications for theories of human motor control. It lays fundamental groundwork in legged locomotion, one of the least developed areas of robotics, addressing the possibility of building useful legged robots that run and balance. The book describes the study of physical machines that run and balance on just one leg, including analysis, computer simulation, and laboratory experiments. Contrary to expectations, it reveals that control of such machines is not particularly difficult. It describes how the principles of locomotion discovered with one leg can be extended to systems with several legs and reports preliminary experiments with a quadruped machine that runs using these principles. Raibert's work is unique in its emphasis on dynamics and active balance, aspects of the problem that have played a minor role in most previous work. His studies focus on the central issues of balance and dynamic control, while avoiding several problems that have dominated previous research on legged machines. Marc Raibert is Associate Professor of Computer Science and Robotics at Carnegie-Mellon University and on the editorial board of The MIT Press journal, Robotics Research. Legged Robots That Balanceis fifteenth in the Artificial Intelligence Series, edited by Patrick Winston and Michael Brady.

Advances in Robot Design and Intelligent Control
Advances in Robot Design and Intelligent Control

Author: Aleksandar Rodić

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-11-26

Total Pages: 651

ISBN-13: 3319490583

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This book presents the proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Robotics in Alpe-Adria-Danube Region, RAAD 2016 held in Belgrade, Serbia, on June 30th–July 2nd, 2016. In keeping with the tradition of the event, RAAD 2016 covered all the important areas of research and innovation in new robot designs and intelligent robot control, with papers including Intelligent robot motion control; Robot vision and sensory processing; Novel design of robot manipulators and grippers; Robot applications in manufacturing and services; Autonomous systems, humanoid and walking robots; Human–robot interaction and collaboration; Cognitive robots and emotional intelligence; Medical, human-assistive robots and prosthetic design; Robots in construction and arts, and Evolution, education, legal and social issues of robotics. For the first time in RAAD history, the themes cloud robots, legal and ethical issues in robotics as well as robots in arts were included in the technical program. The book is a valuable resource for researchers in fields of robotics, engineers who implement robotic solutions in manufacturing, services and healthcare, and master’s and Ph.D. students working on robotics projects.

Modelling and Control of Mechatronic and Robotic Systems
Modelling and Control of Mechatronic and Robotic Systems

Author: Alessandro Gasparetto

Publisher: MDPI

Published: 2021-09-02

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 3036511229

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Currently, the modelling and control of mechatronic and robotic systems is an open and challenging field of investigation in both industry and academia. The book encompasses the kinematic and dynamic modelling, analysis, design, and control of mechatronic and robotic systems, with the scope of improving their performance, as well as simulating and testing novel devices and control architectures. A broad range of disciplines and topics are included, such as robotic manipulation, mobile systems, cable-driven robots, wearable and rehabilitation devices, variable stiffness safety-oriented mechanisms, optimization of robot performance, and energy-saving systems.

Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots, second edition
Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots, second edition

Author: Roland Siegwart

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2011-02-18

Total Pages: 473

ISBN-13: 0262295091

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The second edition of a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of mobile robotics, from algorithms to mechanisms. Mobile robots range from the Mars Pathfinder mission's teleoperated Sojourner to the cleaning robots in the Paris Metro. This text offers students and other interested readers an introduction to the fundamentals of mobile robotics, spanning the mechanical, motor, sensory, perceptual, and cognitive layers the field comprises. The text focuses on mobility itself, offering an overview of the mechanisms that allow a mobile robot to move through a real world environment to perform its tasks, including locomotion, sensing, localization, and motion planning. It synthesizes material from such fields as kinematics, control theory, signal analysis, computer vision, information theory, artificial intelligence, and probability theory. The book presents the techniques and technology that enable mobility in a series of interacting modules. Each chapter treats a different aspect of mobility, as the book moves from low-level to high-level details. It covers all aspects of mobile robotics, including software and hardware design considerations, related technologies, and algorithmic techniques. This second edition has been revised and updated throughout, with 130 pages of new material on such topics as locomotion, perception, localization, and planning and navigation. Problem sets have been added at the end of each chapter. Bringing together all aspects of mobile robotics into one volume, Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots can serve as a textbook or a working tool for beginning practitioners. Curriculum developed by Dr. Robert King, Colorado School of Mines, and Dr. James Conrad, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, to accompany the National Instruments LabVIEW Robotics Starter Kit, are available. Included are 13 (6 by Dr. King and 7 by Dr. Conrad) laboratory exercises for using the LabVIEW Robotics Starter Kit to teach mobile robotics concepts.