Read more
Informationen zum Autor Vincent De Sapio is a research scientist at HRL Laboratories, California. He has more than 40 publications and 16 patents (issued or pending) in the areas of multibody dynamics, control theory, robotics, biomechanics, and motion synthesis and simulation. Dr De Sapio is a senior member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a member of American Society of Mechanical Engineers and Sigma Xi. He is a founding member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Human Movement Understanding. He received his PhD and MS from Stanford University, California and his BS from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York, all in mechanical engineering. Klappentext Uniquely, this book provides a bridge between the foundations of analytical mechanics and application to diverse multibody dynamical systems. Zusammenfassung Intended for graduate students! this textbook provides an understanding of the theoretical underpinnings of analytical mechanics! as well as modern task-based approaches that can be exploited for real-world problems. Students will receive a timely perspective on applying theory to modern problems in areas like biomechanics and robotics. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Mathematical preliminaries; 3. Kinematics of discrete systems; 4. Conservation principles; 5. Zeroth order variational principles; 6. First order variational principles; 7. Second order variational principles; 8. Dynamics in task space; 9. Applications to biomechanical systems; 10. Software for analytical dynamics.
