Robots and Screw Theory: Applications of kinematics and statics to robotics - Hardcover

Davidson, J. K.; Hunt, K. H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198562454 ISBN 13: 9780198562450

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2004

Synopsis

Robots and Screw Theory describes the mathematical foundations, especially geometric, underlying the motions and force-transfers in robots. The principles developed in the book are used in the control of robots and in the design of their major moving parts. The illustrative examples and the exercises in the book are taken principally from robotic machinery used for manufacturing and construction, but the principles apply equally well to miniature robotic devices and to those used in other industries. The comprehensive coverage of the screw and its geometry lead to reciprocal screw systems for statics and instantaneous kinematics. These screw systems are brought together in a unique way to show many cross-relationships between the force-systems that support a body equivalently to a kinematic serial connection of joints and links.
No prior knowledge of screw theory is assumed. The reader is introduced to the screw with a simple planar example yet most of the book applies to robots that move three-dimensionally. Consequently, the book is suitable both as a text at the graduate-course level and as a reference book for the professional. Worked examples on every major topic and over 300 exercises clarify and reinforce the principles covered in the text. A chapter-length list of references gives the reader source-material and opportunities to pursue more fully topics contained in the text.

About this title

About the Author

Davidson served as Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of Mechanisms, Transmissions, and Automation in Design from 1982-86. He also served one term as a member of the Executive Committee of the International Federation for the Theory of Machines and Mechanisms.
Davidson is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Davidson is a member of the Robotics & Automation Society of the IEEE.


Hunt served on the Honorary Editorial Advisory Board of the Pergamon journal Mechanism and Machine Theory from its inception in 1966 (as the Journal of Mechanisms) until his death in 2002. He was a Founding Executive Councillor of the International Federation for the Theory of Machines and Mechanisms, and he also was the Founding Chairman of the Australian National Committee for IFToMM.
Hunt is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Hunt is a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers
Hunt is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Australia
Hunt is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198562454
• ISBN 13: 9780198562450
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 476