Current Practice: No. 3 (Robotics & Mechatronics S.) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0863802613 ISBN 13: 9780863802614

Publisher: Research Studies Press, 2000

Synopsis

The edited proceedings from the Seventh Annual Conference on Mechatronics and Machine Vision in Practice, for which no date nor location are noted, though Down Under would be a good guess from the affiliation of many contributors. In introduced sections, the 41 papers cover mechatronic education, robot soccer and team robots, machine vision, sensors, aids for the disabled, surgery, mobile robots, legged mobiles, and implementation and actuators. Among the topics are the simple intelligent mouse, robust adaptive vision for robot soccer, controlling multiple mobile robot positions using plan vision, the mechatronic bakery, and controlling sensory perception in a robotic cane. Distributed by Taylor & Francis. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

About this title

Synopsis

Mechatronics is the blending of mechanics, electronics and computer control into an integrated design. It is the basis of an expanding list of products and techniques of great technical and commercial value. Ideas that were merely visions in the laboratory have emerged to find real applications in areas of vehicle guidance, robot aided inspection and agriculture. Low cost cameras developed for multimedia applications offer a whole new field of low-cost vision-based control through their ease of interfacing. This book presents mechatronics and machine vision research from experts throughout the world; features approaches to mechatronic teaching, and concentrates on real rather than conjectural systems - "in practice" with emphasis on mobile robots, sensors and new magnetic and hydraulic actuators.

Edition details

• Publisher: Research Studies Press
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0863802613
• ISBN 13: 9780863802614
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 300
• Editor: Billingsley John