Applied Control of Manipulation Robots

The main purpose of this book is to serve as a textbook for courses on robot control at junior/senior undergraduate or postgraduate level. It presents in a simple and systematic fashion relevant problems of robot control as well as approaches and methods for their solution which have been verified in practice. The reader will gain a complete insight into the field of robot control whereby practical aspects are particularly emphasized. The presentation is complemented by a number of numerical examples illustrating all methods and control approaches presented and a large number of exercises and software for control synthesis and analysis for the computer aided synthesis of robot control.