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Introduction to Robotics Lecture Notes
This note provides an overview of robot mechanisms, dynamics, and intelligent controls. Topics covered includes: planar and spatial kinematics, and motion planning, mechanism design for manipulators and mobile robots, multi-rigid-body dynamics, 3D graphic simulation, control design, actuators, and sensors, wireless networking, task modeling, human-machine interface, and embedded software.
Author(s): Prof. Harry Asada and Prof. John Leonard
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This note deals with two major components: robot manipulators and image processing. Topics covered includes: Manipulator kinematic configurations and the robot work space, Manipulator specifications and criteria for selection, Task primitives and programming, Determining path trajectories, Static forces and their control, Manipulator dynamics, Manipulator control, Manipulator peripherals, Sensor integration.
Author(s): The University of Minnesota
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Industrial Robots by Phongsaen Pitakwatchara
This note introduces fundamental topics in robotics science emphasizing in its mechanical dynamics. Topics covered includes: Spatial Descriptions and Transformations, Manipulator Kinematics, Jacobians, Trajectory Generation, Manipulator-Mechanism Design, Introduction to Control of Manipulators.
Author(s): Phongsaen Pitakwatchara
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