Editors:
- Gives an historical background to grasping in robotics with the first achievements in this field and its evolution through the centuries
- Addresses mechanical design issues for both grippers and robotic hands
- Includes various applications, such as humanoid robots and horticulture harvesting
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Mechanisms and Machine Science (Mechan. Machine Science, volume 10)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
The contributors to this book are experts in their own diverse and wide ranging fields. This multidisciplinary approach can help make Grasping in Robotics of interest to a very wide audience. In particular, it can be a useful reference book for researchers, students and users in the wide field of grasping in robotics from many different disciplines including mechanical design, hardware design, control design, user interfaces, modelling, simulation, sensors and humanoid robotics. It could even be adopted as a reference textbook in specific PhD courses.
Editors and Affiliations
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University of Cassino, Cassino, Italy
Giuseppe Carbone
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Grasping in Robotics
Editors: Giuseppe Carbone
Series Title: Mechanisms and Machine Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4664-3
Publisher: Springer London
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-4663-6Published: 15 November 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-5794-6Published: 14 December 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4471-4664-3Published: 15 November 2012
Series ISSN: 2211-0984
Series E-ISSN: 2211-0992
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 468
Topics: Robotics and Automation, Artificial Intelligence, Control and Systems Theory, Simulation and Modeling