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From Robot to Human Grasping Simulation

By: Beatriz León,Antonio Morales,Joaquín Sancho-Bru

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From Robot to Human Grasping Simulation

By: Beatriz León,Antonio Morales,Joaquín Sancho-Bru

The human hand and its dexterity in grasping and manipulating objects are some of the hallmarks of the human species. For years, anatomic and biomechanical studies have deepened the understanding of the human hand’s functioning and, in parallel, the robotics community has been working on the design of robotic hands capable of manipulating objects with a performance similar to that of the human hand. However, although many researchers have partially studied various aspects, to date there has been no comprehensive characterization of the human hand’s function for grasping and manipulation of everyday life objects. This monograph explores the hypothesis that the confluence of both scientific fields, the biomechanical study of the human hand and the analysis of robotic manipulation of objects, would greatly benefit and advance both disciplines through simulation. Therefore, in this book, the current knowledge of robotics and biomechanics guides the design and implementation of a simulation framework focused on manipulation interactions that allows the study of the grasp through simulation. As a result, a valuable framework for the study of the grasp, with relevant applications in several fields such as robotics, biomechanics, ergonomics, rehabilitation and medicine, has been made available to these communities.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3319018337

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9783319018331

Détente in Cold War Europe

Politics and Diplomacy in the Mediterranean and the Middle East

By: Elena Calandri,Daniele Caviglia,Antonio Varsori

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Détente in Cold War Europe

Politics and Diplomacy in the Mediterranean and the Middle East

By: Elena Calandri,Daniele Caviglia,Antonio Varsori

The Mediterranean sea has been a key geopolitical territory in the global international relations of the twentieth century; of crucial importance to the US, the Middle East and in the history of the EU. As Cold War documents become declassified and these archives become accessible to western historians, this volume reassesses the secret war waged over three decades for control of the Mediterranean Sea. An 'American lake' in the 1950s, a battlefield for influence in the Cold War of the 1960s, and an increasingly important political arena for the oil-rich Gulf States in the 1970s, the Mediterranean offers a focal point around which the major themes and narratives of Cold War history were constructed. "Detente in Cold War Europe" draws together detailed analyses of the major moments of post-WWII history through the prism of the Mediterranean - including the signing of the Helsinki Accords in 1975, the Jordan crisis of 1970, the Soviet role in the Yom Kippur war, the Cyprus emergency of 1974, US-Soviet detente and US-Israeli relations under President Nixon. This book is a vital work for historians of the twentieth century and for those seeking to understand the importance of the Mediterranean in the political history of the Cold War.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0857728776

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9780857728777

Algebraic Geometry For Robotics And Control Theory

By: Laura Menini,Corrado Possieri,Antonio Tornambe

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Algebraic Geometry For Robotics And Control Theory

By: Laura Menini,Corrado Possieri,Antonio Tornambe

The development of inexpensive and fast computers, coupled with the discovery of efficient algorithms for dealing with polynomial equations, has enabled exciting new applications of algebraic geometry and commutative algebra. Algebraic Geometry for Robotics and Control Theory shows how tools borrowed from these two fields can be efficiently employed to solve relevant problem arising in robotics and control theory.After a brief introduction to various algebraic objects and techniques, the book first covers a wide variety of topics concerning control theory, robotics, and their applications. Specifically this book shows how these computational and theoretical methods can be coupled with classical control techniques to: solve the inverse kinematics of robotic arms; design observers for nonlinear systems; solve systems of polynomial equalities and inequalities; plan the motion of mobile robots; analyze Boolean networks; solve (possibly, multi-objective) optimization problems; characterize the robustness of linear; time-invariant plants; and certify positivity of polynomials.

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World Scientific

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1800610475

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9781800610477

Control Problems in Robotics

By: Antonio Bicchi,Henrik Christensen,Domenico Prattichizzo

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Control Problems in Robotics

By: Antonio Bicchi,Henrik Christensen,Domenico Prattichizzo

The ?eld of robotics continues to ?ourish and develop. In common with general scienti?c investigation, new ideas and implementations emerge quite spontaneously and these are discussed, used, discarded or subsumed at c- ferences, in the reference journals, as well as through the Internet. After a little more maturity has been acquired by the new concepts, then archival publication as a scienti?c or engineering monograph may occur. The goal of the Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics is to publish new developments and advances in the ?elds of robotics research – rapidly and informally but with a high quality. It is hoped that prospective authors will welcome the opportunity to publish a structured presentation of some of the emerging robotics methodologies and technologies. The edited volume by Antonio Bicchi, Henrik Christensen and Domenico Prattichizzo is the outcome of the second edition of a workshop jointly sponsored by the IEEE Control Systems Society and the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. Noticeably, the previous volume was published in the Springer Lecture Notes on Control and Information Sciences. The authors are recognised as leading scholars internationally. A n- ber of challenging control problems on the forefront of today’s research in robotics and automation are covered, with special emphasis on vision, sensory-feedback control, human-centered robotics, manipulation, planning, ?exible and cooperative robots, assembly systems.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540002510

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9783540002512

Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control

10th International Workshop, HSCC 2007, Pisa, Italy, April 3-5, 2007, Proceedings

By: Alberto Bemporad,Antonio Bicchi,Giorgio C Buttazzo

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Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control

10th International Workshop, HSCC 2007, Pisa, Italy, April 3-5, 2007, Proceedings

By: Alberto Bemporad,Antonio Bicchi,Giorgio C Buttazzo

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control, HSCC 2007, held in Pisa, Italy in April 2007. The 44 revised full papers and 39 revised short papers presented together with the abstracts of 3 keynote talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 167 submissions. Among the topics addressed are models of heterogeneous systems, computability and complexity issues, real-time computing and control, embedded and resource-aware control, control and estimation over wireless networks, tools for analysis, verification, control, and design, programming languages support and implementation, applications, including automotive, communication networks, avionics, energy systems, transportation networks, biology and other sciences, manufacturing, and robotics.

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3540714928

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From Robot to Human Grasping Simulation

From Robot to Human Grasping Simulation

Détente in Cold War Europe

Détente in Cold War Europe

Algebraic Geometry For Robotics And Control Theory

Algebraic Geometry For Robotics And Control Theory

Control Problems in Robotics

Control Problems in Robotics

Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control

Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control

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