Mechanics and control of robots : with 38 illustrations / Krishna C. Gupta.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gupta, Krishna C.

Series:

Mechanical engineering series (Berlin, Germany)

Mechanical engineering series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Robotics.

Robots--Control systems.

Robots.

Automatic machinery.

Physical Description:

xii, 178 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Springer, [1997]

Summary:

Intended as an introduction to robot mechanics for students of mechanical, industrial, electrical, and bio-mechanical engineering, this graduate text presents a wide range of approaches and topics. It avoids formalism and proofs but nonetheless discusses advanced concepts and contemporary applications. It will thus also be of interest to practicing engineers. The book begins with kinematics, emphasizing an approach based on rigid-body displacements instead of coordinate transformations; it then turns to inverse kinematic analysis, presenting the widely used Pieper-Roth and zero-reference-position methods. This is followed by a discussion of workplace characterization and determination. One focus of the discussion is the motion made possible by sperical and other novel wrist designs. The text concludes with a brief discussion of dynamics and control. An extensive bibliography provides access to the current literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [161]-171) and index.

ISBN:

0387949232

OCLC:

35961354