Product Description: The purpose of "Evil Genius" is to create an entertaining book made up of a series of projects that will explain electronics from static electricity (rubbing a balloon) to developing robots. The book will include the tools necessary for the reader to create the projects in the book at very little cost or inconvenience...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Basic concepts, methodology, and applications are presented. Fuzzy computing hardware and software are described. Applications to virtual reality, multimedia and knowledge engineering are discussed.

Product Description: This biennial conference series is intended to establish the exchange of ideas on advanced concepts in robotics. The past seven ICAR conferences demonstrated a slow but constant progress in the creation and application of robotic systems." (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The latest developments are assessed in this fast growing field of robotics and automation. Refinements in design and construction are described that lead to improved reliability and capability in industrial applications. Extensions of concepts, that are developed for unique situations such as surgery, are proposed for industrial and production conditions...read more

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Product Description: This volume constitutes the proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, held in the year 2000. It should be useful to manufacturing automation designers and robotics engineers. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Viability of human communication with robots and automations via speech and other human modalities of communication are examined. Projections of VLSI circuit density increases and cost reductions impact on economic applications in industry and consumer products are projected.

Product Description: Claim control of the Earth as the Chosen or the 7th Legion with 7th Legion: The Official Strategy Guide. You get:Mission by mission strategies for the Chosen or the 7th LegionMultiplayer and single-player mapsComplete breakdowns of all structures and unitsA full listing of every Battle Card and power-upMultiplayer strategiesAbout the AuthorChris Jensen is the author of Links LS 1998 Edition: The Official Strategy Guide and he complied and edited PlayStation RPG Secrets: Unauthorized (both from Prima)...read more

Product Description: Modern technological systems rely on sophisticated control functions to meet increased performance requirements. For such systems, Fault Tolerant Control Systems (FTCS) need to be developed. Active FTCS are dependent on a Fault Detection and Identification (FDI) process to monitor system performance and to detect and isolate faults in the systems...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This monograph is devoted to the problem of inferring geometric information about arbitrarily curved surfaces from visual cues; this is a central problem in computer vision with immediate relevance for robot manipulation and navigation...read more

Compiling the most significant advances from nearly a decade of research, this reference compares and evaluates a wide variety of techniques for the design, analysis, and implementation of control methodologies for systems with actuator saturation. The book presents efficient computational algorithms and new control paradigms for application in the mechanical, electrical, and aerospace industries.Offering real-world solutions to manage system constraints, Actuator Saturation Control provides concise tutorials on recent breakthroughs in the field; novel procedures to achieve global stability, optimal performance, and dynamic anti-windup; practical strategies to model and predict actuator dynamics; effective methods to reduce system sensitivity to external disturbances; equations within the stochastic linearization framework for actuator saturation control; current approaches to ensure graceful performance degradation in the presence of saturation phenomena; linear parameter-varying (LPV) formulations of state and output feedback controllers, and a comprehensive survey of optimal windup and directionality compensation.

Product Description: There are many methods of stable controller design for nonlinear systems. In seeking to go beyond the minimum requirement of stability, Adaptive Dynamic Programming in Discrete Time approaches the challenging topic of optimal control for nonlinear systems using the tools of  adaptive dynamic programming (ADP)...read more

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Product Description: In a well ordered presentation of recently identified techniques for overcoming the complications inherent in wheeled inverted pendulum (WIP) systems, this volume is a searching exploration of problems in kinematics, dynamics modeling, and other topics.

Product Description: Emphasizing practical applications of advanced control systems, this book presents advanced knowledge and concepts that should help professionals choose the control system for any given situation. It covers current techniques for building, testing, installing, calibrating and troubleshooting control systems for a range of applications, from missile and weapon systems to military and commercial aircraft...read more