Robotics books
There are many Robotics books you can buy. Consider:
Build Your Own Humanoid Robots : 6 Amazing and Affordable Projects (TAB Robotics)
Customer Reviews — [1] Rating: 5 Date: 2006-06-27 Summary: Detailed and inspirational - worth the read! ... Karl does a good job of leading you through the basic concepts of humaniod robotics in this well written, well annotated and very descriptive text on the subject. His detailed plans are easy to follow and his programs are well written and well explained throughout. He provides specific recommendations for parts as well as vendors and spends time explaining his choices. If you're interested in learning not only how to write useful PIC applications for robotics but also how to build robotics that implement those applications, ...more
[2] Rating: 4 Date: 2006-03-18 Summary: An amazing book for robotic beginners. ... The most interesting part of this book is on its pratical topics. A lots of briliant ideas can be learned from this book, especially for those who would like to build up their first robotic project from scratch. Things that need to be improved are on the materials used for the projects in this book. Less heavy duty tools required would be nice. The discussions should be more focussing on robotic sensors and control parts. Great Collection!!! ...more
[3] Rating: 5 Date: 2006-02-08 Summary: Laredo TX Samuel Diaz ... I already did all the projects in the book it great its one of the best robot books I have ever readed it tells you everything you need to now about robotics. ...more
Editorial Reviews — ... Product Description | This book features great droids, indeed! This unique guide to sophisticated robotics projects brings humanoid robot construction home to the hobbyist. Written by a well-known figure in the robotics community, "Build Your Own Humanoid Robots" provides step-by-step directions for 6 exciting projects, each costing less than $300. Together, they form the essential ingredients for making your own humanoid robot. If you are serious enough to interest robot professionals, the plans inside offer...more
Robotic Exploration of the Solar System: Part I: The Golden Age 1957-1982 (Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration)
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Editorial Reviews — ... Product Description | Paolo Ulivi and David Harland provide in Robotic Exploration of the Solar System a detailed history of unmanned missions of exploration of our Solar System. As in their previous book Lunar Exploration , the subject will be treated wherever possible from an engineering and scientific standpoint. Technical descriptions of the spacecraft, of their mission designs and of instrumentations will be provided. Scientific results will be discussed in considerable depth, together with details of...more
Robotic Explorations: A Hands-On Introduction to Engineering
Customer Reviews — [1] Rating: 5 Date: 2001-12-01 Summary: Thinking about learning how to build a robot? ... I found this to be an excellent introduction to how to build a fully functional, autonomous robot. This book covers everything you need to build robots using LEGO Technics (think LEGO blocks plus gears, motors, etc.) and a Handyboard, a robot brain developed to get the hard digital electronics out of the way so you can concentrate on putting together a good design with motors and sensors and software intelligence. As someone looking for how to break into robotics without first getting bachelors in Electrical Engineering ...more
[2] Rating: 5 Date: 2006-01-30 Summary: engineering manual ... After 12 years of running an engineering club, I finally found a helpful book. I work with students from 6th to 12th grades. My 8th and 9th graders have no problem following this book. As a matter of fact I can't keep it on my desk. It is frequently either checked out or on the floor with the "builder". Yes, it is a freshman college book but my kids seem to have no problems reading it. My students participate in BEST, FIRST and Botball. ...more
[3] Rating: 5 Date: 2001-02-12 Summary: MIT 6.270 in book form ... I just finished participating in the MIT 6.270 Autonomous Robot Competition. This book really pulls together everything you need to understand how to build a robot from Lego parts, and interface it to the real world using a variety of sensors and actuators (aka motors). There is so much to be learned by actually BUILDING a robot - this is a great book to help you dig into your own project. You can order the same hardware and software used in the MIT class off the internet as well. ...more
Editorial Reviews — ... Product Description | Written by one of the founders of the famous MIT "6270" Lego Robotic design Competition, Robotic Explorations: A Hands-On Introduction to Engineering engages students in hands-on robot building, emphasizing technological systems of all kinds--electrical, mechanical, and computational. A first text for students as well as reference for practitioners, the book provides all the practical information needed to create an introductory freshman-level laboratory class. This versatile and pioneering...more
Springer Handbook of Robotics
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Editorial Reviews — ... Product Description | Robotics is undergoing a major transformation in scope and dimension. Starting from a predominantly industrial focus, robotics has been rapidly expanding into the challenges of unstructured environments. The "Springer Handbook of Robotics" incorporates these new developments and therefore basically differs from other handbooks of robotics focusing on industrial applications. It presents a widespread and well-structured coverage from the foundations of robotics, through the consolidated...more
Robot Programming : A Practical Guide to Behavior-Based Robotics
Customer Reviews — [1] Rating: 4 Date: 2008-01-08 Summary: where has the website gone? ... This is a nice little book. It introduces some important concepts in an overall very readable text. Of course the book doesn't offer much technical detail or any real code but sometimes it comes close. If you already have any experience in programming you can easily get the point in the example pseudo codes and adapt them for your own use. There is a major problem about this book though. The online robot simulation program was available from the link given inside the book but this website is not active anymore so you ...more
[2] Rating: 5 Date: 2006-05-10 Summary: Easy read and a good introduction ... The book is easy to read and a good introducion to behavior based programming. I always like it when the author uses some humor to turn a book that could have been a boring "must read" into an entertaining experience. ...more
[3] Rating: 5 Date: 2007-10-25 Summary: Great book on principles... ... The book aims squarely at teaching the concepts of behavior based robotic programming without being simplistic or being overly technical. A good example is PID controllers -- the ID stand for integral and differential. He doesn't dive down into the mathematics of it but does point out that those two stages of the controller a not separately tunable. The book doesn't present a lot of pseudo code nor does it focus on an type of microprocessor or language. It gives very good conceptual descriptions of how to create architectures ...more
Editorial Reviews — ... Product Description | * Teaches the concepts of behavior-based programming through text, programming examples, and a unique online simulator robot * Explains how to design new behaviors by manipulating old ones and adjusting programming * Does not assume reader familiarity with robotics or programming languages * Includes a section on designing your own behavior-based system from scratch...more
Haptics For Teleoperated Surgical Robotic Systems (New Frontiers in Robotics)
Editorial Reviews — ... Product Description | An important obstacle in Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) is the significant degradation of haptic feedback (sensation of touch) to the surgeon about surgical instrument s interaction with tissue. This monograph is concerned with devices and methods required for incorporating haptic feedback in master-slave robotic MIS systems. In terms of devices, novel mechanisms are designed including a surgical end-effector (slave) with full force sensing capabilities and a surgeon-robot interface...more
Robotics: State Of The Art And Future Challenges
Editorial Reviews — ... Product Description | This book presents the results of an assessment of the state of robotics in Japan, South Korea, Western Europe and Australia and a comparison of robotics R&D programs in these countries with those in the United States. The comparisons include areas like robotic vehicles, space robotics, service robots, humanoid robots, networked robots, and robots for biological and medical applications, and based on criteria such as quality, scope, funding and commercialization. This important study identifies...more
Embedded Robotics: Mobile Robot Design and Applications with Embedded Systems
Customer Reviews — [1] Rating: 5 Date: 2003-12-25 Summary: the best book for student ... After I have read the book contents, I think it is a great book fo me. From this book, I can get many new knowledge, including many field. I want this book to guide my student to take part in robot contest. ...more
[2] Rating: 5 Date: 2006-08-27 Summary: A treasure chest of ideas ... This book is a real treasure chest of ideas for an amateur robot builder. It does not show solutions in enough detail to copy them, but it points you in the right direction. For me some of the most interesting topics covered were: - Motorola M68332 based general purpose robot controller board, - Introduction to different robot competitions, - Simplified image processing solutions, - Walking robots and evolutionary programs to control the gait, - Examples of real life robots. ...more
[3] Rating: 4 Date: 2006-07-31 Summary: Comments to Embedded Robotics ... Hi, so far the book is a little dissapointeing, because is to much centered to a commercial hardware (EyeCon) that is somewhat hard to adquiere to a group that has a very low budget for that kind of projects... but is important to have a reference. That is why it deserve a 3. But also supply a very important source of information for sensors and actuators design. That is why i gave an average of 4 stars. Best regards, and thanks for all the effort you made for me enjoying this book. ...more
Editorial Reviews — ... Product Description | This book presents a unique combination of mobile robots and embedded systems, from introductory to intermediate level. It is structured in three parts, dealing with embedded systems (hardware and software design, actuators, sensors, PID control, multitasking), mobile robot design (driving, balancing, walking, and flying robots), and mobile robot applications (mapping, robot soccer, genetic algorithms, neural networks, behavior-based systems, and simulation). The book is written as a...more
Probabilistic Robotics (Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents)
Customer Reviews — [1] Rating: 4 Date: 2008-08-28 Summary: Delivers even more than it promises ... This is really an amazing book - it more than fulfilled my expectations. It starts from the very basics of probability theory and clearly derives Kalman Filtering, Particle Filtering, Probabilistic Motion and Probabilistic Perception in the first 6 chapters. From there it moves on to talk about Localization and Mapping completely separately (which I appreciated, since the two topics are far easier to comprehend independently) in chapters 7 and 8 and then finally introduces SLAM (the main topic of the book) in chapter ...more
[2] Rating: 4 Date: 2006-09-08 Summary: Robot Navigation ... Uncertainty is an important issue facing intelligent systems. Thrun, Burgard, and Fox have made important contributions to this area of research. Probabilistic Robotics is a more narrowly focused text than the title might suggest. At 650 pages perhaps it could not be broader and yet do justice to the topics the authors want to cover. Perhaps the title should have been Probabilistic Robot Navigation. My other criticism would be the lack of executables ...more
[3] Rating: 5 Date: 2007-09-16 Summary: Useful book ... i think this book is very helpful for beginner of probabilistic robotics. it has a lot of example and pictures :) for our understanding. easy to learning. If i met the chance to buy another book about probabilistic robotics, i am sure purchase this book. have a nice day~~ ...more
Editorial Reviews — ... Product Description | Probabilistic robotics is a new and growing area in robotics, concerned with perception and control in the face of uncertainty. Building on the field of mathematical statistics, probabilistic robotics endows robots with a new level of robustness in real-world situations. This book introduces the reader to a wealth of techniques and algorithms in the field. All algorithms are based on a single overarching mathematical foundation. Each chapter provides example implementations in pseudo code,...more
Robotic Bat (Robotic)
Customer Reviews — [1] Rating: 5 Date: 2006-08-17 Summary: another wonderful robotic toy ... This is the second robotic toy and book my grandson finished. The book was perfect, great info and entertaining. Putting the robotic together is challenging without being overwhelming. the bat is especially exciting when finished. He is looking foward to adding to his robotic collection. ...more
[2] Rating: 5 Date: 2006-03-02 Summary: Fun and Informative! ... I have this book and it comes with a toy! This book is packed with great information about bats and the technology. It will appeal to your little naturalist while at the same time delighting all those mini-engineers! The information is rich and concise and this book will educate your child while they play! I like it! ...more
Editorial Reviews — ... Product Description | Biomimetics — creating machines or materials by copying nature — is responsible for everything from non-skid shoes (based on dogs’ padded paws) to the Eiffel Tower (based on the human thighbone). This book combines in-depth information on the use of robots today, showing how bats inspire designers to create robots and letting young enthusiasts build their own flying dinosaur, complete with light-up eyes and flapping wings. Included are 32 pages of scientific discoveries, with full-color...more
An Introduction to AI Robotics (Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents)
Customer Reviews — [1] Rating: 4 Date: 2002-07-13 Summary: good book, fun to read ... good book. Informative for someone getting started in robotics. Explains different basic programming techniques for robot behavior. I had it as a textbook in my robotics class ...more
[2] Rating: 5 Date: 2004-03-17 Summary: An excellent book ... I wonder how the first reviewers gave so bad comments on the book. I think it is not the author but the first reviewers who mislead the readers. If I took their comments, I would miss a really excellent book. The contents in this book are rich, entensive, systematic and well-organized. One of my colleagues borrowed it from me several times, and finally he ordered another copy himself! We really appreciate the book and the author. ...more
[3] Rating: 5 Date: 2006-12-15 Summary: Great introduction to robotics control ... I'm not sure what chip "A reader" had on his/her shoulder with the earlier review. I felt this book was exactly what I needed as I slowly work my way into robotics from more mainstream programming. With 10 years of web app development experience, I'm an experienced programmer but know little about architecting software for autonomous robots. This book takes you through different architectural approaches that have been used throughout the past 50 years including relatively current recommendations for hybrid deliberative/reactive ...more
Editorial Reviews — ... Product Description | This text covers all the material needed to understand the principles behind the AI approach to robotics and to program an artificially intelligent robot for applications involving sensing, navigation, planning, and uncertainty. Robin Murphy is extremely effective at combining theoretical and practical rigor with a light narrative touch. In the overview, for example, she touches upon anthropomorphic robots from classic films and science fiction stories before delving into the nuts and...more
Linux Robotics (Tab Robotics)
Customer Reviews — [1] Rating: 5 Date: 2006-03-11 Summary: Lots of Robotics, Not so much on Linux ... Building Robots has become a fascination to a lot of people, including Mr. Newman, the author of this book. His robots are a long ways from C3PO. He basically build a robot mounted on wheels that has an awful lot of electronics. But then again he is including a lot of features in his design. There are lot of ways to implement the controller. In this case he uses a small size but standard PC motherboard. On this board he runs a Linux operating system. In spite of the title, this is not really a book on how to use Linux ...more
[2] Rating: 5 Date: 2006-05-23 Summary: How a robot should be built. ... I have this book and it has more than enough information to build a very capable robot that makes most of those that you can buy a toy. Using free (as in free beer) software from the internet you can make a robot that can be anything that you want with just a little thought. The information is supplied in sections starting from some basic knowedge you can create a robot a piece at a time. The information covers movement - internal networking between indivual control modules to internet networking of the robot, to having ...more
[3] Rating: 4 Date: 2007-03-30 Summary: Good beginner's book ... There's not a lot of detailed technical information but the book does a good job of listing a range of ideas and sources for building Linux robots. As an expert-level Linux Administrator, a decent C and Python programmer who is familiar with Java and as a budding roboticist, I found the book very useful. ...more
Editorial Reviews — ... Product Description | Robotics is becoming an increasingly popular field for hobbyists and professionals alike. The cost of the mechanics and electronics required to build a robot are low enough that almost anybody can afford it. The hardware that used to require government funding or a large university is now available to the average person. At the same time, programming is becoming a more common skill. This book combines the most sophisticated parts of robotics and programming to fill a real gap in available...more
Theory of Applied Robotics: Kinematics, Dynamics, and Control
Customer Reviews — [1] Rating: 5 Date: 2008-03-31 Summary: Writers of Computer Graphics Textbooks, please note. ... I wanted a book that covered Inverse Kinematics for animation in computer graphics. What I found was a book that not only went further than my needs, but turned out to be the most comprehensive coverage of IK and associated topics that I have yet come across. All of the material covered needs some preliminary study before reading this book, probably from several sources. However, if anyone should want a full treatment of Rotation,Orientation,Motion and Forward Kinematics, to bring it all together, then this is the ...more
[2] Rating: 5 Date: 2008-09-16 Summary: Best Textbook on the Subject ... I recently ordered this book for my Robotics class, and it is by far the most comprehensive text I have read on the subject. The topics are clearly defined and equations are effectively derived and arranged. ...more
Editorial Reviews — ... Product Description | Theory of Applied Robotics: Kinematics, Dynamics, and Control is appropriate for courses in robotics that emphasize kinematics, dynamics, and control. The contents of this book are presented at a theoretical-practical level. It explains robotics concepts in detail, concentrating on their practical use. Related theorems and formal proofs are provided, as are real-life applications. Students, researchers, and practicing engineers alike will appreciate this user-friendly presentation of...more
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