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Book Introduction to Mobile Robot Control

Download or read book Introduction to Mobile Robot Control written by Spyros G Tzafestas and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction to Mobile Robot Control provides a complete and concise study of modeling, control, and navigation methods for wheeled non-holonomic and omnidirectional mobile robots and manipulators. The book begins with a study of mobile robot drives and corresponding kinematic and dynamic models, and discusses the sensors used in mobile robotics. It then examines a variety of model-based, model-free, and vision-based controllers with unified proof of their stabilization and tracking performance, also addressing the problems of path, motion, and task planning, along with localization and mapping topics. The book provides a host of experimental results, a conceptual overview of systemic and software mobile robot control architectures, and a tour of the use of wheeled mobile robots and manipulators in industry and society. Introduction to Mobile Robot Control is an essential reference, and is also a textbook suitable as a supplement for many university robotics courses. It is accessible to all and can be used as a reference for professionals and researchers in the mobile robotics field. Clearly and authoritatively presents mobile robot concepts Richly illustrated throughout with figures and examples Key concepts demonstrated with a host of experimental and simulation examples No prior knowledge of the subject is required; each chapter commences with an introduction and background

Book Vision Based Control of a Mobile Manipulator

Download or read book Vision Based Control of a Mobile Manipulator written by Levent Çetin and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, control of a mobile manipulator system with a calibrated stereo rig is presented. Autonomous mobile manipulator equipped with a vision based target monitoring system can find and track a moving target and also manipulate it. The vision system is utilized to obtain task space feedback for mobile manipulator control. Using vision data, mobile platform (base) and manipulator are controlled with a hybrid visual servo controller and dynamic look and move methodology, respectively. This work also introduces a methodology concerning how the positioning error can be distributed between two mechanical subsystems: base and manipulator. In general these two systems have some degrees of freedom, which correspond to a task space motion capability in the same axis.

Book 2021 7th International Conference on Control  Automation and Robotics  ICCAR

Download or read book 2021 7th International Conference on Control Automation and Robotics ICCAR written by IEEE Staff and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-23 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2021 The 7th International Conference on Control, Automation and Robotics (ICCAR 2021) will take place at Singapore during April 23 26, 2021 On the theoretical side, this conference features papers focusing on intelligent systems engineering, distributed intelligence systems, multi level systems, intelligent control, multi robot systems, cooperation and coordination of unmanned vehicle systems, etc On the application side, it emphasizes autonomous systems, industrial robotic systems, multi robot systems, aerial vehicles, underwater robots and sensor based control For the first time ever, ICCAR affords the delegates unparalleled opportunities to interact and network with qualified professionals from throughout the world We are looking forward to welcoming you at the garden City Singapore

Book Visual Control of Robots

Download or read book Visual Control of Robots written by Peter I. Corke and published by Taylor & Francis Group. This book was released on 1996 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Robotics  Vision and Control

Download or read book Robotics Vision and Control written by Peter Corke and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-09-05 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author has maintained two open-source MATLAB Toolboxes for more than 10 years: one for robotics and one for vision. The key strength of the Toolboxes provide a set of tools that allow the user to work with real problems, not trivial examples. For the student the book makes the algorithms accessible, the Toolbox code can be read to gain understanding, and the examples illustrate how it can be used —instant gratification in just a couple of lines of MATLAB code. The code can also be the starting point for new work, for researchers or students, by writing programs based on Toolbox functions, or modifying the Toolbox code itself. The purpose of this book is to expand on the tutorial material provided with the toolboxes, add many more examples, and to weave this into a narrative that covers robotics and computer vision separately and together. The author shows how complex problems can be decomposed and solved using just a few simple lines of code, and hopefully to inspire up and coming researchers. The topics covered are guided by the real problems observed over many years as a practitioner of both robotics and computer vision. It is written in a light but informative style, it is easy to read and absorb, and includes a lot of Matlab examples and figures. The book is a real walk through the fundamentals of robot kinematics, dynamics and joint level control, then camera models, image processing, feature extraction and epipolar geometry, and bring it all together in a visual servo system. Additional material is provided at http://www.petercorke.com/RVC

Book Cable Driven Parallel Robots

Download or read book Cable Driven Parallel Robots written by Tobias Bruckmann and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-09-09 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathering presentations to the First International Conference on Cable-Driven Parallel Robots, this book covers classification and definition, kinematics, workspace analysis, cable modeling, hardware/prototype development, control and calibration and more.

Book Visual Servoing in Robotics

Download or read book Visual Servoing in Robotics written by Jorge Pomares and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visual servoing is a well-known approach to guide robots using visual information. Image processing, robotics, and control theory are combined in order to control the motion of a robot depending on the visual information extracted from the images captured by one or several cameras. With respect to vision issues, a number of issues are currently being addressed by ongoing research, such as the use of different types of image features (or different types of cameras such as RGBD cameras), image processing at high velocity, and convergence properties. As shown in this book, the use of new control schemes allows the system to behave more robustly, efficiently, or compliantly, with fewer delays. Related issues such as optimal and robust approaches, direct control, path tracking, or sensor fusion are also addressed. Additionally, we can currently find visual servoing systems being applied in a number of different domains. This book considers various aspects of visual servoing systems, such as the design of new strategies for their application to parallel robots, mobile manipulators, teleoperation, and the application of this type of control system in new areas.

Book Vision based 2D and 3D Control of Robot Manipulators

Download or read book Vision based 2D and 3D Control of Robot Manipulators written by Luis Hernandez and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this chapter we presented an image-based visual controller 2D and 3D control of camerain-hand Robot Manipulators. The controllers are structured in two loops, the internal loop solves the robot's joint control and in the external loop is implemented a visual controller. The dynamic effect of the internal loop is approximated as an external loop time delay. The robotic and vision systems are modeled for small variation around the operating point for position control. In these conditions the stability of the whole system in discrete time is balanced for I and PI controllers in the external loop in both cases. A particular study is made using an ASEA IRB6 robot manipulator which has its wrist mechanically decoupled. This allows maintaining the orientation of camera axis while the arm is moving. The experimental results presented illustrate the control system's stability and performance.

Book Robot Physical Interaction through the combination of Vision  Tactile and Force Feedback

Download or read book Robot Physical Interaction through the combination of Vision Tactile and Force Feedback written by Mario Prats and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-10-05 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robot manipulation is a great challenge; it encompasses versatility -adaptation to different situations-, autonomy -independent robot operation-, and dependability -for success under modeling or sensing errors. A complete manipulation task involves, first, a suitable grasp or contact configuration, and the subsequent motion required by the task. This monograph presents a unified framework by introducing task-related aspects into the knowledge-based grasp concept, leading to task-oriented grasps. Similarly, grasp-related issues are also considered during the execution of a task, leading to grasp-oriented tasks which is called framework for physical interaction (FPI). The book presents the theoretical framework for the versatile specification of physical interaction tasks, as well as the problem of autonomous planning of these tasks. A further focus is on sensor-based dependable execution combining three different types of sensors: force, vision and tactile. The FPI approach allows to perform a wide range of robot manipulation tasks. All contributions are validated with several experiments using different real robots placed on household environments; for instance, a high-DoF humanoid robot can successfully operate unmodeled mechanisms with widely varying structure in a general way with natural motions. This research was recipient of the European Georges Giralt Award and the Robotdalen Scientific Award Honorary Mention.

Book Autonomous Robot Vehicles

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ingemar J. Cox
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2012-12-06
  • ISBN : 1461389976
  • Pages : 478 pages

Download or read book Autonomous Robot Vehicles written by Ingemar J. Cox and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autonomous robot vehicles are vehicles capable of intelligent motion and action without requiring either a guide or teleoperator control. The recent surge of interest in this subject will grow even grow further as their potential applications increase. Autonomous vehicles are currently being studied for use as reconnaissance/exploratory vehicles for planetary exploration, undersea, land and air environments, remote repair and maintenance, material handling systems for offices and factories, and even intelligent wheelchairs for the disabled. This reference is the first to deal directly with the unique and fundamental problems and recent progress associated with autonomous vehicles. The editors have assembled and combined significant material from a multitude of sources, and, in effect, now conviniently provide a coherent organization to a previously scattered and ill-defined field.

Book Robotics

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bruno Siciliano
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2010-08-20
  • ISBN : 1846286417
  • Pages : 644 pages

Download or read book Robotics written by Bruno Siciliano and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-08-20 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the successful Modelling and Control of Robot Manipulators by Sciavicco and Siciliano (Springer, 2000), Robotics provides the basic know-how on the foundations of robotics: modelling, planning and control. It has been expanded to include coverage of mobile robots, visual control and motion planning. A variety of problems is raised throughout, and the proper tools to find engineering-oriented solutions are introduced and explained. The text includes coverage of fundamental topics like kinematics, and trajectory planning and related technological aspects including actuators and sensors. To impart practical skill, examples and case studies are carefully worked out and interwoven through the text, with frequent resort to simulation. In addition, end-of-chapter exercises are proposed, and the book is accompanied by an electronic solutions manual containing the MATLAB® code for computer problems; this is available free of charge to those adopting this volume as a textbook for courses.

Book Vision based Control of Robot Manipulators

Download or read book Vision based Control of Robot Manipulators written by Gregory D. Hager and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Robust Vision for Vision Based Control of Motion

Download or read book Robust Vision for Vision Based Control of Motion written by Markus Vincze and published by Wiley-IEEE Press. This book was released on 2000-02-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find the design principles you need to move vision-based control out of the lab and into the real world. In this edited collection of state-of-the-art papers, contributors highly regarded in robust vision bring you the latest applications in the field. Whatever your industry - from space ventures to mobile surveillance - you will discover throughout this comprehensive collection a strong emphasis on robust vision simply unmatched today. You will also gain an in-depth analysis of vision techniques used to control the motion of robots and machines. Expert contributors offer you key insights into: Current control issues including hardware design, system architecture, sensor data fusion, and visual tracking Modeling methods for vision-based sensing Useful summaries of recent conclusions drawn from robust-vision workshops Future research needs If you want to learn today's approaches to robust vision-based control of motion, this extensive collection is a must. Learn from the experts and, in the process, speed your project development and broaden your technical expertise for future collaborative efforts in your industry.

Book Active Robot Vision  Camera Heads  Model Based Navigation And Reactive Control

Download or read book Active Robot Vision Camera Heads Model Based Navigation And Reactive Control written by Kevin Bowyer and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1993-05-13 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents:Editorial (H I Christensen et al.)The Harvard Binocular Head (N J Ferrier & J J Clark)Heads, Eyes, and Head-Eye Systems (K Pahlavan & J-O Eklundh)Design and Performance of TRISH, a Binocular Robot Head with Torsional Eye Movements (E Milios et al.)A Low-Cost Robot Camera Head (H I Christensen)The Surrey Attentive Robot Vision System (J R G Pretlove & G A Parker)Layered Control of a Binocular Camera Head (J L Crowley et al.)SAVIC: A Simulation, Visualization and Interactive Control Environment for Mobile Robots (C Chen & M M Trivedi)Simulation and Expectation in Sensor-Based Systems (Y Roth & R Jain)Active Avoidance: Escape and Dodging Behaviors for Reactive Control (R C Arkin et al.) Readership: Engineers and computer scientists. keywords:Active Vision;Robot Vision;Computer Vision;Model-Based Vision;Robot Navigation;Reactive Control;Robot Motion Planning;Knowledge-Based Vision;Robotics

Book Developing a Mobile Manipulation System to Handle Unknown and Unstructured Objects

Download or read book Developing a Mobile Manipulation System to Handle Unknown and Unstructured Objects written by Abdulrahman Al-Shanoon and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The exceptional human's ability to interact with unknown objects based on minimal prior experience is a permanent inspiration to the field of robotic manipulation. The recent revolution in industrial and service robots demands high-autonomy and intelligent mobile-manipulators. The goal of the thesis is to develop an autonomous mobile robotic manipulation system that can handle unknown and unstructured objects with the least training and human involvement. First, an end-to-end vision-based mobile manipulation architecture with minimal training using synthetic datasets is proposed in this thesis. The system includes: 1) effective training strategy of a perception network for object pose estimation, 2) the result is utilized as sensing feedback to integrate into a visual servoing system to achieve autonomous mobile manipulation. Experimental findings from simulations and real-world settings showed the efficiency of using computer-generated datasets, that can be generalized to the physical mobile-manipulator task. The model of the presented robot is experimentally verified and discussed. Second, a challenging robotic manipulation scenario of unknown-adjacent objects is addressed in this thesis by using a scalable self-supervised system that can learn grasping control strategies for unknown objects based on limited knowledge and simple sample objects. The developed learning scheme can be beneficial to both generalization and transferability without requiring any additional training or prior object awareness. Finally, an end-to-end self-learning framework is proposed to learn manipulating policies for challenging scenarios based on minimal training time and raw experience. The proposed model learns from scratch, from visual observations to sequential decision-making, manipulating actions and generalizes to unknown scenarios. The agent comprehends a sequence of manipulations that purposely lead to successful grasps. Results of the experiments demonstrated the effectiveness of the learning between manipulating actions, in which the grasping success rate has dramatically increased. The proposed system is successfully experimented and validated in simulations and real-world settings.

Book Vision based manipulator control of calibration free robots

Download or read book Vision based manipulator control of calibration free robots written by André Maryniak and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Robotic Systems  Concepts  Methodologies  Tools  and Applications

Download or read book Robotic Systems Concepts Methodologies Tools and Applications written by Management Association, Information Resources and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2020-01-03 with total page 2075 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through expanded intelligence, the use of robotics has fundamentally transformed a variety of fields, including manufacturing, aerospace, medicine, social services, and agriculture. Continued research on robotic design is critical to solving various dynamic obstacles individuals, enterprises, and humanity at large face on a daily basis. Robotic Systems: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications is a vital reference source that delves into the current issues, methodologies, and trends relating to advanced robotic technology in the modern world. Highlighting a range of topics such as mechatronics, cybernetics, and human-computer interaction, this multi-volume book is ideally designed for robotics engineers, mechanical engineers, robotics technicians, operators, software engineers, designers, programmers, industry professionals, researchers, students, academicians, and computer practitioners seeking current research on developing innovative ideas for intelligent and autonomous robotics systems.