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81. Geometric Computing with Clifford Algebras: Theoretical Foundations and Applications in Computer Vision and Robotics | |
Paperback: 551
Pages
(2010-11-02)
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82. Introduction to Robotics (Electronic Systems Engineering Series) by Phillip John McKerrow | |
Paperback: 800
Pages
(1991-05)
list price: US$47.95 Isbn: 0201182408 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
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Very good introduction to robotic construction |
83. Stiquito for Beginners: An Introduction to Robotics by James M. Conrad, Jonathan W. Mills | |
Paperback: 328
Pages
(1999-12-27)
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Editorial Review Product Description The Stiquito robot is a small, inexpensive, six-legged robot that is unique not only by its cost but because its applications are limitless. This book is written at a level for High School and College students. It provides an engineering, electronics, and robotics curriculum, and presents experiments and projects that illustrate what they teach. It also illustrates Stiquito's uses in education by presenting lab exercises and describes the use of nitinol in classroom experiments. Stiquito has already successfully been used to teach in primary, secondary, high school, and college curricula. An accompanying teacher's manual that includes problem solutions, descriptions for teaching each chapter, science benchmarks, national standards, and additional experiments associated with each chapter will be available. Customer Reviews (18)
Beware!!
Excelent Introduction
Great Project
A good introduction This book skims over various design alternatives, and offers detailed, systematic instructions for construction of the "classic", simplest Stiquito walker.The instructions begin by giving readers the big picture, explaining the objectives for each section, and then explain each step individually.It takes just a few hours of reading and a few hours of patient work before you can make your first Stiquito. But beware, you'll need to locate a vendor with Nitinol and piano wire, because the first robot is simple and you will want to keep going.A second, "advanced" title contains plans and explanations for many of the designs briefly mentioned in this book.
A good introduction This book skims over various design alternatives, and offers detailed, systematic instructions for construction of the "classic", simplest Stiquito walker.The instructions begin by giving readers the big picture, explaining the objectives for each section, and then explain each step individually.It takes just a few hours of reading and a few hours of patient work before you can make your first Stiquito. But beware, you'll need to locate a vendor with Nitinol and piano wire, because the first robot is simple and you will want to keep going.A second, "advanced" title contains plans and explanations for many of the designs briefly mentioned in this book. ... Read more |
84. Robotics and Cognitive Approaches to Spatial Mapping (Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics) | |
Paperback: 330
Pages
(2010-11-30)
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Editorial Review Product Description This important work is an attempt to synthesize two areas that need to be treated in tandem. The book brings together the fields of robot spatial mapping and cognitive spatial mapping, which share some common core problems. One would expect some cross-fertilization of research between the two areas to have occurred, yet this has begun only recently. There are now signs that some synthesis is happening, so this work is a timely one for students and engineers in robotics. |
85. Fundamentals of Robotics (Dekker Mechanical Engineering) by David Ardayfio | |
Hardcover: 448
Pages
(1987-05-29)
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86. An Introduction to AI Robotics (Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents) by Robin R. Murphy | |
Hardcover: 400
Pages
(2000-11-13)
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Great introduction to robotics control
An excellent book The contents in this book are rich, entensive, systematic and well-organized. One of my colleagues borrowed it from me several times, and finally he ordered another copy himself! We really appreciate the book and the author.
Where's the editor? Dr. Choset's glowing review(s) might be taken with a grain of salt, given that he serves as "Director of Research Outreach" beneath the author at CRASAR. While the language is suitable for a novice, it is plagued by errors both grammatical and technical.While the former (at roughly one per page) are merely distracting, the latter often incorrectly change the sense entirely. Code snippets masquerade as "C or C++", but aren't suitable even as pseudo code.Luckily, most are trivial enough that mistakes become obvious, but missing cases and lack of any error handling whatsoever mean that you're not going to be typing examples into an editor.In addition, many assume a machine state but don't show this initialization.This might be excusable had the code been lifted directly from source, but half the time backslashes are used to begin comments! A few examples from a chapter on vision: "Consumer digital cameras post an analog signal, but the update rate is too slow at this time for real-time reactive robot control." "Most commercial devices in the U.S. use a NTSC (television) standard.Color is expressed as the sum of three measurements: red, green, and blue." "red = image_red[row][col]; "His Cybermotion robot was one of the first to navigate in hallways using vision; in this case, a technique known as a Hough (pronounced "huff") transform.In the early 1990's, with slow hardware, the robot could go 8 to 9 meters per second." Hint: The robot platform isn't capable of going 1/10 that speed.Such mistakes are so common that one wonders whether she just couldn't be bothered to do the research and resorted to making it up. This book may be okay for a casual read and it does have the endnotes going for it, but don't use it as a textbook unless you enjoy confusing students.If you're serious about behavior-based robotics, get Arkin.
Horror of mistakes
good book, fun to read |
87. Introduction to Robotics: Analysis, Systems, Applications by Saeed B. Niku | |
Paperback: 349
Pages
(2001-07-30)
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Editorial Review Product Description This books serves as an introduction to robotics analysis, the systems and sub-systems that constitute robots and robotic systems, and robotics applications. All of the fundamentals of robotics are covered—robotics analysis; including kinematics, kinetics and force control, and trajectory planning of robots; its sub-systems such as actuators, sensors, and vision systems; as well as robotics applications. Introduction to Robotics also includes many subjects related to mechatronics, microprocessor actuator control, integration of sensors, vision systems, and fuzzy logic. For practicing mechanical engineers, electronic and electric engineers, computer engineers, and engineering technologists who would like to learn about robotics. Customer Reviews (3)
robotics & math
EE483
Good and not so good (bad?) |
88. A Mathematical Introduction to Robotic Manipulation by Richard M. Murray, Zexiang Li, S. Shankar Sastry, S. Shankara Sastry | |
Paperback: 480
Pages
(1994-03-22)
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Not bad as a reference
a branch of applied maths |
89. Type Synthesis of Parallel Mechanisms (Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics) by Xianwen Kong, Clément M. Gosselin | |
Paperback: 272
Pages
(2010-11-02)
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Editorial Review Product Description This unique monograph focuses on the systematic type synthesis of parallel mechanisms (PMs), a key issue in the creative design of a wide variety of innovative devices such as parallel manipulators, motion simulators, and haptic devices. Essential reading for researchers, developers, engineers and graduate students with interests in robotics, this book covers the classification of PMs as well as providing a large number of PMs ready to be used in practical applications. |
90. Mobile Robotics: A Practical Introduction by Ulrich Nehmzow | |
Paperback: 280
Pages
(2003-06-11)
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The book provides a very good introduction to mobile robots. |
91. FTC Robotics: Tips, Tricks, Strategies, and Secrets by The Pope John XXIII Regional High School Robotics Team | |
Paperback: 196
Pages
(2010-03-29)
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A Wonderful Resource
Must have for new (and old) FTC teams
Essential For rookie and veteran teams alike
Views of a rookie coach |
92. Evolutionary Robotics: The Biology, Intelligence, and Technology of Self-Organizing Machines (Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents) by Stefano Nolfi, Dario Floreano | |
Paperback: 332
Pages
(2004-03-01)
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Evolutionary Robotics book transaction
Really great stuff Using genetic algorithms it is possible to construct the brain of a robot ( Neural network ), and even (though harder) the hardware itself. The book gives an introduction to genetic algortihms & artificial neural networks, but the reader should still be somewhat familiar with these concepts before buying this book. After reading this book, I did one of the experiments mentioned in the book. While I only did this with a freeware Kephara robot simulator, it was still fun.
Really great stuff Using genetic algorithms it is possible to construct the brain of a robot ( Neural network ), and even (though harder) the hardware itself. The book gives an introduction to genetic algortihms & artificial neural networks, but the reader should still be somewhat familiar with these concepts before buying this book. After reading this book, I did one of the experiments mentioned in the book. While I only did this with a freeware Kephara robot simulator, it was still fun. ... Read more |
93. Evolutionary Swarm Robotics: Evolving Self-Organising Behaviours in Groups of Autonomous Robots (Studies in Computational Intelligence) by Vito Trianni | |
Paperback: 190
Pages
(2010-11-02)
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Editorial Review Product Description In this book the use of ER techniques for the design of self-organising group behaviours, for both simulated and real robots is introduced. The book tries to mediate between two apparently opposed perspectives: engineering and cognitive science. The experiments presented in the book and the results obtained contribute to the assessment of ER not only as a design tool, but also as a methodology for modelling and understanding intelligent adaptive behaviours. |
94. Handbook of Industrial Robotics, 2nd Edition | |
Hardcover: 1378
Pages
(1999-02-16)
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A great resource for those active in robotics
robotics
Comprehensive Anticipatory Design Science |
95. Pediatric Robotic Urology (Current Clinical Urology) | |
Hardcover: 227
Pages
(2009-09-09)
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Editorial Review Product Description Robotic technology has paved the way for new opportunities in pediatric urologic surgery. Where once laparoscopy was restricted to urological conditions in children such as undescended testicles and ambiguous genitalia, robotic techniques are now enabling the completion of greatly needed, more involved procedures. Written by highly respected surgeons, Pediatric Robotic Urology provides a state-of-the-art, comprehensive overview of the precise surgical techniques that are changing the practice of pediatric urologic surgery. Divided in two sections and covering both introductory topics and advanced surgical techniques, Pediatric Robotic Urology also includes myriad illustrations and photographs of intraoperative procedures. Developed for accessible reading, this invaluable title is a concise, yet broad reference that is certain to be of significant value to urologists, surgeons, and all health care providers who care for pediatric urologic patients. |
96. The New Cool: A Visionary Teacher, His FIRST Robotics Team, and the Ultimate Battle of Smarts by Neal Bascomb | |
Hardcover: 336
Pages
(2011-03-01)
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97. Robotic Exploration of the Solar System: Part 2: Hiatus and Renewal, 1983-1996 (Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration) by Paolo Ulivi, David M. Harland | |
Paperback: 550
Pages
(2008-11-25)
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Editorial Review Product Description Paolo Ulivi and David Harland provide in "Robotic Exploration of the Solar System" a detailed history of unmanned missions of exploration of our Solar System As in their previous book Lunar Exploration, the subject will be treated wherever possible from an engineering and scientific standpoint. Technical descriptions of the spacecraft, of their mission designs and of instrumentations will be provided. Scientific results will be discussed in considerable depth, together with details of mission management. The books will cover missions from the 1950s until the present day, and some of the latest missions and their results will appear in a popular science book for the first time. The authors will also cover many unflown projects, providing an indication of the ideas that proved to be unfulfilled at the time but which may still be proven and useful in the future. Just like Lunar Exploration, these books will use sources only recently made available on the Soviet space program, in addition to some obscure and rarely used references on the European space program. The project will deliver three volumes totaling over 1000 pages that will provide comprehensive coverage of the topic with thousands of references to the professional literature that should make it the 'first port of call' for people seeking information on the topic. Customer Reviews (1)
Robotic Exploration of the Solar System: Part 2: |
98. The Robot Builder's Bonanza: 99 Inexpensive Robotics Projects by Gordon McComb | |
Paperback: 336
Pages
(1987-12)
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This Book Kicks Robo
This Book Kicks ...
This Book Kicks Robo-[butt]
this is the book !
Excellent Resource but notice the publish date However, note that the book was published in 1987.There were not any microcontrollers for the hobbiest at the time (the computers quoted in the book are Apple IIe and IBM-PC clones). If you want a good description of sensors and output systems, then this book is excellent, if you want information about programable brains of robots, this book will not satisfy you. ... Read more |
99. Personal Robotics: Real Robots to Construct, Program, and Explore the World by Richard Raucci | |
Paperback: 201
Pages
(1999-07)
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A basic overview of inexpensive robot packages
A Broad Overview of Inexpensive Robotics Products
Cool book |
100. Probabilistic Reasoning and Decision Making in Sensory-Motor Systems (Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics) | |
Paperback: 378
Pages
(2010-11-30)
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Editorial Review Product Description Probabilistic Reasoning and Decision Making in Sensory-Motor Systems by Pierre Bessiere, Christian Laugier and Roland Siegwart provides a unique collection of a sizable segment of the cognitive systems research community in Europe. It reports on contributions from leading academic institutions brought together within the European projects Bayesian Inspired Brain and Artifact (BIBA) and Bayesian Approach to Cognitive Systems (BACS). This fourteen-chapter volume covers important research along two main lines: new probabilistic models and algorithms for perception and action, new probabilistic methodology and techniques for artefact conception and development. The work addresses key issues concerned with Bayesian programming, navigation, filtering, modelling and mapping, with applications in a number of different contexts. |
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