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Robots --- Robot control --- Robotics --- Kinematics of robots --- Robot kinematics --- Machinery, Kinematics of --- Kinematics. --- Control systems.

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Manipulators (Mechanism) --- Robots --- -#KVIV:BB --- 681.3*I29 --- Automata --- Automatons --- Robotics --- Mecha (Vehicles) --- Mechanical manipulators --- Robots, Industrial --- Kinematics --- Robotics: manipulators; propelling mechanisms; sensors (Artificial intelli- gence) --- Kinematics. --- Manipulators (Mechanism). --- 681.3*I29 Robotics: manipulators; propelling mechanisms; sensors (Artificial intelli- gence) --- #KVIV:BB --- Kinematics of robots --- Robot kinematics --- Machinery, Kinematics of

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The topics addressed in this book cover the whole range of kinematic analysis, synthesis and design and consider robotic systems possessing serial, parallel and cable driven mechanisms. The robotic systems range from being less than fully mobile to kinematically redundant to overconstrained.  The fifty-six contributions report the latest results in robot kinematics with emphasis on emerging areas such as design and control of humanoids or humanoid subsystems. The book is of interest to researchers wanting to bring their knowledge up to date regarding modern topics in one of the basic disciplines in robotics, which relates to the essential property of robots, the motion of mechanisms.

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This book reviews the fundamentals of screw theory concerned with velocity analysis of rigid-bodies, confirmed with detailed and explicit proofs. The author additionally investigates acceleration, jerk, and hyper-jerk analyses of rigid-bodies following the trend of the velocity analysis. With the material provided in this book, readers can extend the theory of screws into the kinematics of optional order of rigid-bodies. Illustrative examples and exercises to reinforce learning are provided. Of particular note, the kinematics of emblematic parallel manipulators, such as the Delta robot as well as the original Gough and Stewart platforms are revisited applying, in addition to the theory of screws, new methods devoted to simplify the corresponding forward-displacement analysis, a challenging task for most parallel manipulators. Stands as the only book devoted to the acceleration, jerk and hyper-jerk (snap) analyses of rigid-body by means of screw theory; Provides new strategies to simplify the forward kinematics of parallel manipulators that can be easily implemented by non-experts in robot kinematics; Provides readers the opportunity to extend the theory of screws into the desired order of kinematic analysis in approaching open problems, e.g. the correct characterization of singularities in closed kinematic chains; Includes numerous end of chapter problems and solutions to illustrate concepts presented.

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This book tackles all the stages and mechanisms involved in the learning of manipulation tasks by bimanual robots in unstructured settings, as it can be the task of folding clothes. The first part describes how to build an integrated system, capable of properly handling the kinematics and dynamics of the robot along the learning process. It proposes practical enhancements to closed-loop inverse kinematics for redundant robots, a procedure to position the two arms to maximize workspace manipulability, and a dynamic model together with a disturbance observer to achieve compliant control and safe robot behavior. In the second part, methods for robot motion learning based on movement primitives and direct policy search algorithms are presented. To improve sampling efficiency and accelerate learning without deteriorating solution quality, techniques for dimensionality reduction, for exploiting low-performing samples, and for contextualization and adaptability to changing situations are proposed. In sum, the reader will find in this comprehensive exposition the relevant knowledge in different areas required to build a complete framework for model-free, compliant, coordinated robot motion learning.

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