"Robotics - introduction, programming and projets" presents basic themes and practical applications in the emerging field of robotics, concentrating on the present and future developments of robotics for industry, business and personal use. The text stresses that robotics is a multi-disciplined field of study. Students learn that they must first understand robotics in general terms before concentrating their study on one of the many areas involved (mechanics, engineering, electronics, manufacturing, computers, systems, etc).
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978-0-675-21078-2 (9780675210782)
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Oregon Institute of Technology, USA
Part 1 An introduction to robotics: what is a robot?; the history of robots?; what makes up an industrial robot?; robot grippers; sensors and expanded robot applications; applications for industrial business and domestic robots; robot maintenance; robots and safety; robotics and artificial intelligence; classification of robots; justifying the use of robots; future for robots. Part 2 Robotics programming problems and techniques; operating systems of robots; robot application programming; carrying out a robotics project; vision system; tactile systems; proximity sensors; speech synthesis; speech understanding. Part 3 Robotics projects: construction of simple robotics projects; bibliography; glossary; appendixes; mechanics; electricity; electronics and computer fundamentals; robot manufacturers; robotic organizations.
