Advances in Robot Control From Everyday Physics to Human-Like Movements

This volume provides a unique collection of papers written in honor of the 70th birthday of Suguru Arimoto who has long been recognized as a pioneer in the field of robot control. A variety of his research is reflected in this book, which includes contributions from leading experts in the field, who...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Kawamura, Sadao (Editor), Svinin, Mikhail (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2006, 2006
Edition:1st ed. 2006
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Human Robotics: A Vision and A Dream
  • Human Robotics: A Vision and A Dream
  • From Everyday Physics to Robot Control
  • Natural Motion and Singularity-Consistent Inversion of Robot Manipulators
  • Approximate Jacobian Control for Robot Manipulators
  • Adaptive Visual Servoing of Robot Manipulators
  • Orthogonalization Principle for Dynamic Visual Servoing of Constrained Robot Manipulators
  • Passivity-Based Control of Multi-Agent Systems
  • Navigation Functions for Dynamical, Nonholonomically Constrained Mechanical Systems
  • Planning and Control of Robot Motion Based on Time-Scale Transformation
  • From Robot Control to Human-Like Movements
  • Modularity, Synchronization, and What Robotics May Yet Learn from the Brain
  • Force Control with A Muscle-Activated Endoskeleton
  • On Dynamic Control Mechanisms of Redundant Human Musculo-Skeletal System
  • Principle of Superposition in Human Prehension
  • Motion Planning of Human-Like Movements in the Manipulation of Flexible Objects
  • Haptic Feedback Enhancement Through Adaptive Force Scaling: Theory and Experiment
  • Learning to Dynamically Manipulate: A Table Tennis Robot Controls a Ball and Rallies with a Human Being