Intelligent Robotic Systems

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CRC Press, Jun 3, 1991 - Technology & Engineering - 736 pages
A multiplicity of techniques and angles of attack are incorporated in 18 contributions describing recent developments in the structure, architecture, programming, control, and implementation of industrial robots capable of performing intelligent action and decision making. Annotation copyright Book
 

Contents

2
45
4
91
SkillBased Expert Systems in Robotics
109
6
138
Maria Gini and Giuseppina Gini
165
Simplification of a Robot Dynamic Model Based
211
DynamicsBased Control of Robotic Manipulators
245
ForceFeedback Control in Robotics Tasks
283
Intelligent Robotic Vision Systems
457
Geometric Classification
509
Skinlike
527
Intelligent Robotics for Space Applications
545
Toward an Advanced
593
Solving Jigsaw Puzzles Using a Robot
637
Flexible Work Cell Design by Simulation
673
INDEX
715

Adaptive Robust and Fuzzy RuleBased Control
313
Modeling and Control
421

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SPYROS G. TZAFESTAS is Professor of Robotics and Control and Director of the Intelligent Robotics and Control Unit at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece. The author of over 300 technical papers and author or editor of more than 15 books, including Multidimensional Systems (Marcel Dekker, Inc.), he is a reviewer and associate editor for more than 20 journals and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems. Dr. Tzafestas is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and Institute of Electrical Engineers, and a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the Governing Board of the International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation. He received the B.Sc. (1964) degree from the University of Athens, Greece; and D.I.C. (1967) degree from the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, M.Sc. (1967) degree from the University of London, and Ph.D. (1969) and D.Sc. (1978) degrees from Southampton University, all in England.

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