Title Robotics : applied mathematics and computational aspects : based on the proceedings of a conference on robotics, applied mathematics and computational aspects / organized by the Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications and held at Loughborough University of Technology in July 1989 ; edited by Kevin Warwick

Published Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1993

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Description xvii, 596 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm Series The Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications conference series ; new ser., 41 Collection of Jamie and Michael Kassler. ANL Conference series (Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications) ; new ser., 41 Contents Machine derived contents note: 1. Intelligent Robotic Systems: Overview and Integrated Examples, S. Tzafestas -- 2. Neural Nets: Mathematicians Required?, I. Aleksander -- 3. The National Advanced Robotics Research Centre: a Research Programme, G.J. Pegman and J.O. Gray -- 4. Solving the Kinematics of General 6R Manipulators using Polynomial Continuation, C.W. Wampler and A.P. Morgan -- 5. Minimum-time Trajectory Planning for Articulated Manipulators in Configuration-space and Under Physical Constraints, A.M.S. Zalzala and A.S. Morris -- 6. Reachable Workspace Computation for Planar Revolute Jointed Arms, S. Chiaverini and C. Vicinanza -- 7. Experimental Results of Optimal and Sub-optimal Bang-bang Control Laws for a Flexible Robot Manipulator, R.P.G. Heath -- 8. An Adaptive Control Simulator for Industrial Robot Applications, K.Z. Karam and K. Warwick -- 9. A New Vector Notation for Rigid Body Dynamics, J.A. Sams -- 10. Robotic Simulation at Rover Group - An End User's Viewpoint, J. Jina and K.D. Gill -- 11. Robot Force Control, A. Steven and J.R. Hewit -- 12. A Control Algorithm for Automatic Alignment of a Monomode Fibre with other Optical Components, J.A. Moyahi-Okello and T.H. Davies -- 13. The Improvement of Industrial Robot Performance using Simple Recalibration Techniques, P.R. Edwards -- 14. The Application of Inductive Sensors to Robotic Assembly, A. Mohammadion and C.N. Larsson -- 15. 3-D Model Based Matching for Automatic Inspection from Depth Data, A.D. Marshall and R.R. Martin -- 16. The application of Robotics to Horticultural Micropropagation, R.D. Tillett and G.P. Smith -- 17. The 'Intelligent' Chocolate Packing Robot, T. Cronshaw -- 18. Deterministic Nonlinear Control of a Robot Manipulator, A.S.I. Zinober and C.A. Woodham -- 19. Kinematic and Dynamic Representations of a Parallel-links-driven Manipulator, B.M.S. Zainol Anuar, C.H. Chew and P.D. Roberts -- 20. Robot Dynamics using Screw Theory, J.M. Selig -- 21. Transformations for Generalised Velocities and Forces, T.H. Davies -- 22. Neural Networks and Robotic Control -- 23. Transputer Networks for Fast Robot Dynamics, A.Y. Zomaya and A.S. Morris -- 24. Parallel and Systolic Algorithms for Robotic Control, D.J. Evans and G.M. Megson -- 25. Concurrency in Robot Programming and Control Systems, J.D.M. McKeever, et al. -- 26. Solution and Transputer Computation of the Forward Geometry of a Manipulator with Fully Parallel Architecture, A.T. Davis and A. Bradshaw -- 27. Using Space-time for Collision Detection: Solving the General Case, S. Cameron -- 28. VER - a Stereo Vision system for Mobile Robots, J.P. Costeira, J.P. Fernandes, J.A.s. Victor and J.J.S. Sentieiro -- 29. Techniques for Intelligent Multisensor Data Fusion for Application to Autonomously Guided Vehicles, C.J. Harris and J.V. Jackson -- 30. Absolute Position Location for an Automatically Guided Vehicle using Multiple Strategies, R.C. Seals and H. Feelib -- 31. Waypoint Recognition for Autonomous Road-following Vehicles, R.A. Allsopp -- 32. Planning a Collision-free Cooperating Robot Environment, G.I. Dodds and G.W. Irwin -- 33. A World Modelling Environment for Gearing Perception to Action, J. Shapiro, P. Grant and P. Mowforth -- 34. Genetic Algorithms for Autonomous Robot Programming, Y. Davidor, A.J. Jones and T.M. Husband -- 35. The Application of Symbolic Equation Manipulation to High Performance Multibody Simulation, G.D. Westmacott -- 36. Accurate Positioning of Manipulators through Disturbance Observers, R. Gorez -- 37. Simulation of Robot Vibrations, A.S. White, P.T. Gleeson and Y. Wong -- 38. Interpretation of Velocity Ellipsoids in Robot Performance Measurement, D. Stanton and G.A. Parker -- 39. "Regional" Motion Control Models for Single-axis Pneumatic Robots, J. Pu, R.H. Weston and Y.M. Liu -- Contributors Analysis Robots Robots Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Subject Robotics. Author Warwick, Kevin, 1954- Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications. LC no. 92035010 ISBN 0198536496

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