Advanced robotics & intelligent machines
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Advanced robotics & intelligent machines
（IEE control engineering series, v. 51）
Institution of Electrical Engineers, c1996
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Advanced robotics and intelligent machines
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
The term 'advanced robotics' came in the 1980s to describe the application of advanced sensors and new developments in cognitive science and artificial intelligence to the traditional robot. Today, advanced robots have come far beyond the limitations of the crude 'pick-and-place' machines of the 1980s assembly line, and have a vast range of applications in manufacturing, construction and health care, as well as hostile environments such as space, underwater and nuclear applications.
This book provides an essential overview of developments in the basic technologies, looking at recent applications and highlighting a number of advanced concepts and procedures that may influence future developments. The emphasis is on developments in Europe, although the book is also relevant to activities in the USA, Japan and elsewhere. With such a wide and dynamic field, it does not attempt to provide a comprehensive guide; rather, it addresses many key elements of the technology to furnish a complete introduction for both postgraduate students and practising engineers attracted to the challenges of the domain.
Table of Contents
Section 1: Technologies for advanced robotics
Chapter 1: Recent developments in advanced robotics & intelligent systems
Chapter 2: Machine intelligence: architectures, controllers and applications
Chapter 3: Advanced control systems for robotic arms
Chapter 4: Intelligent gripping systems
Chapter 5: Force feedback control in robots and its application to decommissioning
Chapter 6: Tele-presence control of robots
Chapter 7: Sensing and sensor management for planning
Section 2: Applications
Chapter 8: Robotics in the nuclear industry
Chapter 9: Robots in surgery: a survey
Chapter 10: Intelligent autonomous systems for cars
Chapter 11: Walking machine technology: designing the control system of an advanced six-legged machine
Chapter 12: Handling of flexible materials in automation
Chapter 13: Robotics in food manufacturing
Chapter 14: Robotic milking
Section 3: Advanced concepts and procedures
Chapter 15: Intelligent sensing as a means to error free semiconductor wafer handling
Chapter 16: The concept of robot society and its utilisation in future robotics
Chapter 17: Miniature and micro robotics: technologies and applications
Chapter 18: Characteristics of robot behaviour
Chapter 19: A behaviour synthesis architecture for co-operant mobile robots
Chapter 20: Co-operant behaviour in multiple manipulators
Chapter 21: Neural networks in automation procedures
Chapter 22: Parallel processing, neural networks and genetic algorithms for real-time robot control
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