Springer Handbook of Robotics / Springer Handbook of Robotics

A new, authoritative and utterly comprehensive reference work on robotics that incorporates new developments, surpassing the narrow scope of other robotics handbooks that focus on industrial applications. Edited by internationally renowned experts.

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Reaching for the human frontier, robotics is vigorously engaged in the growing challenges of new emerging domains. Interacting, exploring, and working with humans, the new generation of robots will increasingly touch people and their lives. The credible prospect of practical robots among humans is the result of the scientific endeavour of a half a century of robotic developments that established robotics as a modern scientific discipline. The Springer Handbook of Robotics brings a widespread
and well-structured compilation of classic and emerging application areas of robotics. From the foundations to the social and ethical implications of robotics, the handbook provides a comprehensive collection of the accomplishments in the field, and constitutes a premise of further advances towards new challenges in robotics.
This handbook, edited by two internationally renowned scientists with the support of an outstanding team of seven part editors and onehundred sixty-four authors, is an authoritative reference for robotics researchers, newcomers to the field, and scholars from related disciplines such as biomechanics, neurosciences, virtual simulation, animation, surgery, and sensor networks among others.
Key TopicsRobotics foundations Robot structuresSensing and perceptionManipulation and interfacesMobile and distributed roboticsField and service roboticsHuman-centered and life-like roboticsFeatures
Comprehensive coverage of research and development in roboticsScientific resource for both experts and non experts in the fieldTechnical contents laid out in a tutorial settingA coherent three-layer organization: robotics foundations, consolidated
methodologies and technologies, advanced applicationsAnchored in seven parts expanded into sixty-four chapters with interconnectedpresentation of subject matterDeveloped in about 1650 pages with over 950 color illustrations including
422 four-color, 80 tables and over 5500 referencesDetailed index and fully searchable DVD-ROM providing rapid access to
data and links to other source