Mobile Robots
eBook - PDF

Mobile Robots

State of the Art in Land, Sea, Air, and Collaborative Missions

  1. 337 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Mobile Robots

State of the Art in Land, Sea, Air, and Collaborative Missions

About this book

Since the introduction of the first industrial robot Unimate in a General Motors automobile factory in New Jersey in 1961, robots have gained stronger and stronger foothold in the industry. In the meantime, robotics research has been expanding from fix based robots to mobile robots at a stunning pace. There have been significant milestones that are worth noting in recent decades. Examples are the octopus-like Tentacle Arm developed by Marvin Minsky in 1968, the Stanford Cart crossing a chair-filled room without human assistance in 1979, and most recently, humanoid robots developed by Honda.Despite rapid technological developments and extensive research efforts in mobility, perception, navigation and control, mobile robots still fare badly in comparison with human abilities. For example, in physical interactions with subjects and objects in an operational environment, a human being can easily relies on his/her intuitively force-based servoing to accomplish contact tasks, handling and processing materials and interacting with people safely and precisely. The intuitiveness, learning ability and contextual knowledge, which are natural part of human instincts, are hard to come by for robots.The above observations simply highlight the monumental works and challenges ahead when researchers aspire to turn mobile robots to greater benefits to humankinds. This book is by no means to address all the issues associated mobile robots, but reports current states of some challenging research projects in mobile robotics ranging from land, humanoid, underwater, aerial robots, to rehabilitation.

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Yes, you can access Mobile Robots by XiaoQi Chen,Y.Q. Chen,J.G. Chase, XiaoQi Chen, Y.Q. Chen, J.G. Chase in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Technology & Engineering & Automation in Engineering. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Mobile Robots - State of the Art in Land, Sea, Air, and Collaborative Missions
  2. Preface
  3. Contents
  4. 1. Mobiles Robots – Past Present and Future
  5. 2. A Field Robot with Rotated-claw Wheels
  6. 3. Mobile Wheeled Robot with Step Climbing Capabilities
  7. 4, Cable-Climbing Robots for Power Transmission Lines Inspection
  8. 5. Bionic Limb Mechanism and Multi-Sensing Control for Cockroach Robots
  9. 6. Biologically-Inspired Design of Humanoids
  10. 7. The State-of-Art of Underwater Vehicles– Theories and Applications
  11. 8. General Concept of 3D SLAM
  12. 9. Flight Dynamics Modelling and Experimental Validation for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  13. 10. Optimal Real-Time Estimation Strategies for aClass of Cyber-Physical Systems Using Networked Mobile Sensors and Actuators
  14. 11. Effective Heuristics for Route Construction of Mobile Data Collectors
  15. 12. An Augmented Reality Human-Robot Collaboration System
  16. 13. Indoor Localization Techniques based on Wireless Sensor Networks
  17. 14. Multi-criteria Optimal Design of Cable Driven Ankle Rehabilitation Robot