Control Problems in Robotics and Automation

Focusing on the important control problems in state-of-the-art robotics and automation, this volume features invited papers from a workshop held at CDC, San Diego, California. As well as looking at current problems, it aims to identify and discuss challenging issues that are yet to be solved but which will be vital to future research directions. The many topics covered include: automatic control, distributed multi-agent control, multirobots, dexterous hands, flexible manipulators, walking robots, free-floating systems, nonholonomic robots, sensor fusion, fuzzy control, virtual reality, visual servoing, and task synchronization. Control Problems in Robotics and Automation will be of interest to all researchers, scientists and graduate students who wish to broaden their knowledge in robotics and automation and prepare themselves to address and resolve the control problems that will be faced in this field as we enter the twenty-first century.

List of contents

Force control: A bird's eye view.- Multirobots and cooperative systems.- Robotic dexterity via nonholonomy.- Control for teleoperation and haptic interfaces.- Recent progress in fuzzy control.- Trajectory control of flexible manipulators.- Dynamics and control of bipedal robots.- Free-floating robotic systems.- Underactuated mechanical systems.- Trends in mobile robot and vehicle control.- Vision-based robot control.- Sensor fusion.- Discrete event theory for the monitoring and control of robotic systems.- Scheduling of flexible manufacturing systems.- Task synchronization via integration of sensing, planning, and control in a manufacturing work-cell.- Advanced air traffic automation: A case study in distributed decentralized control.

Product details

• Assisted by: P Valavanis (Editor), P Valavanis (Editor), Brun Siciliano (Editor), Bruno Siciliano (Editor), Kimon P. Valavanis (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1960
• EAN: 9783540762201
• ISBN: 978-3-540-76220-1
• No. of pages: 298
• Weight: 492 g
• Illustrations: XXII, 298 p.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences; Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Electronics, electrical engineering, communications engineering; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management