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Title Beyond Webcams : an introduction to online robots / edited by Ken Goldberg and Roland Siegwart
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 331 pages) : illustrations
Summary The design, function, and challenges of online telerobotic systems. Remote-controlled robots were first developed in the 1940s to handle radioactive materials. Trained experts now use them to explore deep in sea and space, to defuse bombs, and to clean up hazardous spills. Today robots can be controlled by anyone on the Internet. Such robots include cameras that not only allow us to look, but also go beyond Webcams: they enable us to control the telerobots' movements and actions. This book summarizes the state of the art in Internet telerobots. It includes robots that navigate undersea, drive on Mars, visit museums, float in blimps, handle protein crystals, paint pictures, and hold human hands. The book describes eighteen systems, showing how they were designed, how they function online, and the engineering challenges they meet
Analysis COMPUTER SCIENCE/Robotics & Agents
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Robots -- Control systems.
Remote control.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Robotics.
Remote control
Robots -- Control systems
Robots.
Controlesystemen.
Form Electronic book
Author Goldberg, Ken
Siegwart, Roland
LC no. 2001044325
ISBN 9780262274012
0262274019
0585446008
9780585446004