Service robots and robotics design and application /

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Ceccarelli, Marco.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), 2012.
• Subjects: Robotics > Research.; Robotics > Design and construction.; Robots, Industrial > Research.; Robots, Industrial > Design and construction.; Domestic robot; PatrolBot; Security robot; Human-machine interaction; Kinematic design; Sensor equipment; Actuators; Nonconventional applications; Motion generation; Teaching projects
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"Service robots serve a wide range of people in residential, commercial, industrial, military, and many more applied fields. Service Robots and Robotics: Design and Application offers the latest research within the field, combining a mixture of case studies, research, and future directions. Sta...

Table of Contents:

• 1. History of service robots / Zielinska Teresa
• 2. Kinematics design for structures and algorithms / Ding Xilun, Chen Hao, Xu Kun
• 3. Task analysis and motion generation for service robots: with reference to region segregation and path generation for robotic ironing / Jian S. Dai
• 4. Mission planning of mobile robots and manipulators for service applications / Elias K. Xidias, Nikos A. Aspragathos, Philip N. Azariadis
• 5. Lagrangian dynamics of manipulators / Sandipan Bandyopadhyay
• 6. Multidisciplinary project-based learning of robotics / Itziar Cabanes ... [et al.]
• 7. An integrated approach for teaching robotics based on the development of low-cost parallel robots / Alexandre Kawano ... [et al.]
• 8. Human-friendly robots for entertainment and education / Jorge Solis, Atsuo Takanishi
• 9. Robot modeling for physical rehabilitation / Rogério Sales Gonçalves, João Carlos Mendes Carvalho
• 10. Safer and faster humanitarian demining with robots / Emin Faruk Kececi
• 11. Mobile worm-like robots for pipe inspection / Sergey Jatsun
• 12. Service robots for restoration of goods of cultural heritage / Marco Ceccarelli, Michela Cigola
• 13. Self-calibration of eye-to-hand and workspace for mobile service robot / Jwu-Sheng Hu, Yung-Jung Chang
• 14. Design and operation of two service robot arms: a wide surface printing robot and an artist robot / Jean-Pierre Gazeau, Saïd Zeghloul
• 15. Modular cable-driven robotic arms for intrinsically safe manipulation / Wen Bin Lim ... [et al.]
• 16. Agile wheeled mobile robots for service in natural environment / Jean-Christophe Fauroux ... [et al.]
• 17. Dual robot control for part handling services with human interaction / Theodor Borangiu, Florin Daniel Anton, Silvia Anton
• 18. Service robots for agriculture: a case of study for saffron harvesting / Andrea Manuello Bertetto.