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Vehicles
- Experiments in Artificial Psychology
Valentino Braitenberg
A
small book with a big point to make - essential reading
for all those with an interest in A.I. and Mobile robots
- Scotland October 2002
A
Definite Read For A-Life and Robotics, 17 May, 1999
Reviewer: cwingrav@vt.edu from Viginia Tech, Blacksburg,
VA
This great book is for those not looking for an end but
seeking a book that acts as a guide through the world of
complexity. It is a starting place for new ideas and has
been quoted several times by several people doing important
research because it is such a great text.
Once again, no disrespect to the bottom reviewer but they
completely missed the point of this fine work. This is not
a summation book on the field but a starting point for new
and creative ideas.
A
book to challenge your thinking, 7 May, 1999
Reviewer: Jason Noble (noble@mpib-berlin.mpg.de) from Berlin,
Germany
With respect, I think the previous reviewer has missed the
point of this excellent book. Yes, Braitenberg "personifies"
simple electro-mechanical relationships. But his whole point
in doing so is to make us aware of how readily we personify
animate objects in our environment, including each other.
With a playfulness not usually found in the writings of
neuroscientists, Braitenberg starts with very simple machines
or vehicles that respond to their environment. He shows
that, despite the simple internal workings of these machines,
we would be likely to impute feelings and desires to them.
As the book goes on, Braitenberg discusses increasingly
complicated machines, although remaining firmly in the realm
of things that could potentially be built. The later machines
appear to be capable of impressive feats of memory, planning
and foresight, and yet they are ultimately made up of "simple
electro-mechanical relationships". By the close of
the book, one realizes belatedly that Braitenberg has sketched
out (in fable-like form) a possible history of the evolution
of intelligence.
For all those fascinated by the question of how the complexities
of human and animal behaviour arise from the relatively
simple world of the neuron, this book is a must.
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Machines
That Walk the Adaptive Suspension
Song
Question: What is 16-feet long, 10-feet high, weighs 6,000
pounds, has six legs, and can sprint at eight mph and step
over a four-foot wall? Answer: the Adaptive Suspension Vehicle
(ASV) described in this book. Offers an in-depth treatment
of the "statically stable walking machine" theory.
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Beyond
Webcams: An Introduction to Online Robots
Goldberg, Ken (Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering
and
Goldberg, Ken Siegwart, Roland
This book summarizes the state of the art in Internet telerobots.
It includes robots that navigate undersea, drive on Mars,
visit museums, float in blimps, handle protein crystals, paint
pictures, and hold human hands.
Description
Remote-controlled robots were first developed in the 1940s
to handle radioactive materials. Trained experts now use them
to explore deep in sea and space, to defuse bombs, and to
clean up hazardous spills. Today robots can be controlled
by anyone on the Internet. Such robots include cameras that
not only allow us to look, but also go beyond Webcams: they
enable us to control the telerobots' movements and actions.
This book summarizes the state of the art in Internet telerobots.
It includes robots that navigate undersea, drive on Mars,
visit museums, float in blimps, handle protein crystals, paint
pictures, and hold human hands. The book describes 18 systems,
showing how they were designed, how they function online,
and the engineering challenges they meet
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1999
Workshop on Robot Motion and Control Proceedings
First Edition,1999
Ieee Industrial Electronics Society St
Ieee Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
This collection of articles from the First Workshop on Robot
Motion and Control includes articles on control, modelling
and parameter identifications, robot control techniques, and
path and trajectory planning.
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Geometrical
Foundations of Robotics
Selig, J. M.
Selig, J.M. (South Bank University, London)
A collection of talks presented at the 1998 IEEE International
Conference on Robotics and Automation. Broadly, the meeting
discussed the application of modern geometrical methods to
problems in robotics. The aim of this book is to introduce
these ideas to a wider audience.
Description
A collection of talks presented at the 1998 IEEE International
Conference on Robotics and Automation. Broadly, the meeting
discussed the application of modern geometrical methods to
problems in robotics. There are now a few textbooks in this
area and more papers in the literature. The aim of this book
is to introduce these ideas, their simplicity and power, to
a wider audience.
The first three chapters give an introduction to the Lie group
and Lie algebras. The focus is on the group of rigid body
transformations in space, namely the Lie group which is fundamental
to robotics. The following chapters provide an overview of
some of the work in the field of geometrical methods in robotics
and have been written by leading researchers in the field.
The applications addressed cover the design of robot kinematics,
the analysis of singularities in robots and mechanisms, and
a geometric view of some computational issues.
Table of Contents
Groups, J.M. Selig
subgroups and representations, J.M. Selig
design of new mechanisms via the displacement subgroups, J.M.
Herve
kinematics from the singular viewpoint, G.G. Gibson
singularity analysis of serial robot-manipulators, A. Karger
variational problems associated with kinematic chains, R.
Brockett
computational differential algebra, B. Mishra.
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International
Conference on Robotics and Automation Proceedings: 4 Volumes
(1999)
Edition 1999
IEEE Robotics & Automation Society
IEEE Inst of Electrical & Electronics Ieee Institute of
Electrical & ElectronicEngineering
The theme of ICRA99 is mega-information integration for robots
and automation in the 21st century. Applications must become
more flexible in order to yield better products at greater
efficiency. For this reason, huge amounts of information must
be integrated into robotics and automation.
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