Robotic Systems: Advanced Techniques and Applications - Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering 1992 edition

Marc Notes: A selection of papers presented at the 'European Robotics and Intelligent Systems Conference' (EURISCON '91) held in Corfu, Greece (June 23-28, 1991)--P. xi.; Includes bibliographical references. Table of Contents: Preface. Part 1: Robot Kinematic and Dynamic Analysis. Part 2: Robot Control. Part 3: Robot Path Planning and Tracking. Part 4: Mobile Robots: Architectures, Perception, Navigation and Control. Part 5: Robot Programming and Sensory Data Processing. Part 6: Sophisticated Robotic Systems and Applications. Author Index. Publisher Marketing: Robotics is a modern interdisciplinary field that has emerged from the marriage of computerized numerical control and remote manipulation. Today's robotic systems have intelligence features and are able to perform dextrous and intelligent human-like actions through appropriate combination of learning, perception, planning, decision making and control.

Contributor Bio:  Tzafestas, S G Tzafestas is Professor of Control and Automation at the National Technical University, Athens, Greece.