Biomemetic Robotics (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521895941)

This book is written as an initial course in robotics. It is ideal for study of unmanned aerial or underwater vehicles, a topic on which few books exist. It presents the fundamentals of robotics, from an aerospace perspective, by considering only the field of robot mechanisms. For an aerospace engineer, three dimensional and parallel mechanisms - flight simulation, unmanned aerial vehicles, and space robotics - take on an added significance. Biomimetic robot mechanisms are fundamental to manipulators, walking, mobile, and flying robots. As a distinguishing feature, this book gives a unified and integrated treatment of biomimetic robot mechanisms. It is ideal preparation for the next robotics module: practical robot control design. While the book focuses on principles, computational procedures are also given due importance. Students are encouraged to use computational tools to solve the examples in the exercises. The author has also included some additional topics beyond his course coverage for the enthusiastic reader to explore.

Author: Ranjan Vepa
ISBN-10: 0521895944
ISBN-13: 9780521895941
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/26/2009
Pages: 360
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.95lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 1.10d