Snake Robots
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Snake Robots
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Author : Pål Liljebäck
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-06-13
Snake Robots written by Pål Liljebäck and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-13 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Snake Robots is a novel treatment of theoretical and practical topics related to snake robots: robotic mechanisms designed to move like biological snakes and able to operate in challenging environments in which human presence is either undesirable or impossible. Future applications of such robots include search and rescue, inspection and maintenance, and subsea operations. Locomotion in unstructured environments is a focus for this book. The text targets the disparate muddle of approaches to modelling, development and control of snake robots in current literature, giving a unified presentation of recent research results on snake robot locomotion to increase the reader’s basic understanding of these mechanisms and their motion dynamics and clarify the state of the art in the field. The book is a complete treatment of snake robotics, with topics ranging from mathematical modelling techniques, through mechatronic design and implementation, to control design strategies. The development of two snake robots is described and both are used to provide experimental validation of many of the theoretical results. Snake Robots is written in a clear and easily understandable manner which makes the material accessible by specialists in the field and non-experts alike. Numerous illustrative figures and images help readers to visualize the material. The book is particularly useful to new researchers taking on a topic related to snake robots because it provides an extensive overview of the snake robot literature and also represents a suitable starting point for research in this area.
Adaptive Robust Control For Planar Snake Robots
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Author : Joyjit Mukherjee
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-05-11
Adaptive Robust Control For Planar Snake Robots written by Joyjit Mukherjee and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-11 with Technology & Engineering categories.
This book shows how a conventional multi-layered approach can be used to control a snake robot on a desired path while moving on a flat surface. To achieve robustness to unknown variations in surface conditions, it explores various adaptive robust control methods. The authors propose a sliding-mode control approach designed to achieve robust maneuvering for bounded uncertainty with a known upper bound. The control is modified by addition of an adaptation law to alleviate the overestimation problem of the switching gain as well as to circumvent the requirement for knowledge regarding the bounds of uncertainty. The book works toward non-conservativeness, achieving efficient tracking in the presence of slowly varying uncertainties with a specially designed framework for time-delayed control. It shows readers how to extract superior performance from their snake robots with an approach that allows robustness toward bounded time-delayed estimation errors. The book also demonstrates how the multi-layered control framework can be simplified by employing differential flatness for such a system. Finally, the mathematical model of a snake robot moving inside a uniform channel using only side-wall contact is discussed. The model has further been employed to demonstrate adaptive robust control design for such a motion. Using numerous illustrations and tables, Adaptive Robust Control for Planar Snake Robots will interest researchers, practicing engineers and postgraduate students working in the field of robotics and control systems.
Biologically Inspired Robots
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Author : Shigeo Hirose
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
Biologically Inspired Robots written by Shigeo Hirose and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Science categories.
Living systems often exhibit a fascinating repertoire of phenomena that inspire new engineering solutions to old problems. This book is an account of the author's investigations of the locomotion of snakes and the application of his findings to a new class of robots displaying snake-like motions. The author expertly presents the case that robots in which whole mechanisms move have many potential applications that should be fully exploited in the future when the pertinent technological developments have been achieved. This unique work will be interesting to both robotics engineers and zoologists.
Neurotechnology For Biomimetic Robots
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Author : Joseph Ayers
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2002
Neurotechnology For Biomimetic Robots written by Joseph Ayers and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Biosensors categories.
An overview of neurotechnology, the engineering of robots based on animals and animal behavior. The goal of neurotechnology is to confer the performance advantages of animal systems on robotic machines. Biomimetic robots differ from traditional robots in that they are agile, relatively cheap, and able to deal with real-world environments. The engineering of these robots requires a thorough understanding of the biological systems on which they are based, at both the biomechanical and physiological levels.This book provides an in-depth overview of the field. The areas covered include myomorphic actuators, which mimic muscle action; neuromorphic sensors, which, like animal sensors, represent sensory modalities such as light, pressure, and motion in a labeled-line code; biomimetic controllers, based on the relatively simple control systems of invertebrate animals; and the autonomous behaviors that are based on an animal's selection of behaviors from a species-specific behavioral "library." The ultimate goal is to develop a truly autonomous robot, one able to navigate and interact with its environment solely on the basis of sensory feedback without prompting from a human operator.
Autonomous Robots
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Author : George A. Bekey
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2005
Autonomous Robots written by George A. Bekey and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Autonomous robots categories.
An introduction to the science and practice of autonomous robots that reviews over 300 current systems and examines the underlying technology.
Bio Inspired Robotics
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Author : Toshio Fukuda
language : en
Publisher: MDPI
Release Date : 2018-11-07
Bio Inspired Robotics written by Toshio Fukuda and has been published by MDPI this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-07 with Electronic books categories.
This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Bio-Inspired Robotics" that was published in Applied Sciences
Intelligent Robotics And Applications
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Author : Ming Xie
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2009-12-14
Intelligent Robotics And Applications written by Ming Xie and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-12-14 with Computers categories.
The market demands for skills, knowledge and personalities have positioned robotics as an important field in both engineering and science. To meet these challenging - mands, robotics has already seen its success in automating many industrial tasks in factories. And, a new era will come for us to see a greater success of robotics in n- industrial environments. In anticipating a wider deployment of intelligent and auto- mous robots for tasks such as manufacturing, eldercare, homecare, edutainment, search and rescue, de-mining, surveillance, exploration, and security missions, it is necessary for us to push the frontier of robotics into a new dimension, in which motion and intelligence play equally important roles. After the success of the inaugural conference, the purpose of the Second Inter- tional Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications was to provide a venue where researchers, scientists, engineers and practitioners throughout the world could come together to present and discuss the latest achievement, future challenges and exciting applications of intelligent and autonomous robots. In particular, the emphasis of this year’s conference was on “robot intelligence for achieving digital manufact- ing and intelligent automations. ” This volume of Springer’s Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Computer Science contains accepted papers presented at ICIRA 2009, held in Singapore, December 16–18, 2009. On the basis of the reviews and recommendations by the international Program Committee members, we decided to accept 128 papers having technical novelty, out of 173 submissions received from different parts of the world.
Rescue Robots
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Author : S.L. Hamilton
language : en
Publisher: ABDO
Release Date : 2019-01-01
Rescue Robots written by S.L. Hamilton and has been published by ABDO this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Simple text and close-up photographs present the amazing advancements of today's robots. Readers will learn about the incredible developments and abilities of robots who can enter earthquake, avalanche, volcano, fire, and even nuclear disaster sites to perform search and rescue work. This book contains important details about how these robots are designed to assist, protect, and benefit humans. Includes surprising information about companies and engineers creating today's most up-to-date robots. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. A&D Xtreme is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Disaster Robotics
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Author : Satoshi Tadokoro
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2019-01-20
Disaster Robotics written by Satoshi Tadokoro and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-20 with Technology & Engineering categories.
This book introduces readers to the latest findings on disaster robotics. It is based on the ImPACT Tough Robotics Challenge, a national project spearheaded by the Japan Cabinet Office that focuses on developing robotics technologies to aid in disaster response, recovery and preparedness. It presents six subprojects that involve robot platforms and several component technologies used in conjunction with robots: cyber rescue canines, which are digitally empowered rescue dogs; serpent-like robots for searching debris; serpent-like robots for plant/infrastructure inspection; UAVs for gathering information on large areas struck by disaster; legged robots for plant/infrastructure inspection in risky places; and construction robots for recovery tasks that require both power and precision. The book offers a valuable source of information for researchers, engineers and practitioners in safety, security and rescue robotics, disaster robotics, and plant and infrastructure maintenance. It will also appeal to a wider demographic, including students and academics, as it highlights application scenarios and the total concept for each robot in various scientific and technical contexts. In addition to a wealth of figures and photos that explain these robots and systems, as well as experimental data, the book includes a comprehensive list of published papers from this project for readers to refer to. Lastly, an external website offers video footage and updated information from the International Rescue System Institute.
European Robotics Symposium 2008
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Author : Herman Bruyninckx
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2008-03-25
European Robotics Symposium 2008 written by Herman Bruyninckx and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-03-25 with Technology & Engineering categories.
At the dawn of the new millennium, robotics is undergoing a major transformation in scope and dimension. From a largely dominant industrial focus, robotics is rapidly expanding into the challenges of unstructured environments. Interacting with, assi- ing, serving, and exploring with humans, the emerging robots will increasingly touch people and their lives. The goal of the Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics (STAR) series is to bring, in a timely fashion, the latest advances and developments in robotics on the basis of their significance and quality. It is our hope that the wider dissemination of research - velopments will stimulate more exchanges and collaborations among the research community and contribute to further advancement of this rapidly growing field. The European Robotics Symposium (EUROS) was launched in 2006 as an inter- tional scientific single-track event promoted by EURON, the European Robotics Network linking most of the European research teams since its inception in 2000. Since then, EUROS has found its parental home under STAR, together with the other thematic symposia devoted to excellence in robotics research: FSR, ISER, ISRR, WAFR.