Overview
Provides a multidisciplinary introduction to robotics
Easy to understand language, examples, and exercises
Introduces programming concepts using Python
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Contextual Design
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Embedded Design
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About this book
This open access book introduces key concepts in robotics in an easy to understand language using an engaging project-based approach. It covers contemporary topics in robotics, providing an accessible entry point to fundamentals in all the major domains. A section is dedicated to introducing programming concepts using Python, which has become a language of choice in robotics and AI. The book also introduces the reader to the Robot Operating System (ROS), the ubiquitous software and algorithmic framework used by researchers and the industry. The book provides an inspired, up-to-date and multidisciplinary introduction to robotics in its many forms, including emerging topics related to robotics on Machine Learning, ethics, Human-Robot Interaction, and Design Thinking. The book also includes interviews with industry experts, providing an additional layer of insight into the world of robotics. The book is made open access through the generous support from Kinova Robotics. The book is suitable as an undergraduate textbook in a relevant engineering course. It is also suitable for students in art and design, high school students, and self-learners who would like to explore foundational concepts in robotics.
“This book provides the ‘foundation’ for understanding how robots work. It is the accessible introduction that artists and engineers have been waiting for.”
- Ken Goldberg, William S. Floyd Jr. Distinguished Chair in Engineering, UC Berkeley.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Damith Herath (Ph.D., Robotics) is an Associate Professor in Robotics and Art at the University of Canberra. Damith is a multi-award winning entrepreneur and a roboticist with extensive experience leading multidisciplinary research teams on complex robotic integration, industrial and research projects for over two decades. He founded Australia’s first collaborative robotics startup in 2011 and was named one of the most innovative young tech companies in Australia in 2014. Teams he led in 2015 and 2016 consecutively became finalists and, in 2016, a top-ten category winner in the coveted Amazon Robotics Challenge - an industry-focussed competition amongst the robotics research elite. In addition, Damith has chaired several international workshops on Robots and Art and is the lead editor of the book "Robots and Art: Exploring an Unlikely Symbiosis" - the first significant work to feature leading roboticists and artists together in the field of Robotic Art.
David St-Onge (Ph.D., Mech. Eng.) is an Associate Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at the École de technologie supérieure and director of the INIT Robots Lab (initrobots.ca). David’s research focuses on human-swarm collaboration more specifically with respect to operators’ cognitive load and motion-based interactions. He has over 10 years’ experience in the field of interactive media (structure, automatization and sensing) as workshop production director and as R&D engineer. He is an active member of national clusters centered on human-robot interaction (REPARTI) and art-science collaborations (Hexagram). He participates in national training programs for highly qualified personnel for drone services (UTILI), as well as for the deployment of industrial cobots (CoRoM). He led the team effort to present the first large-scale symbiotic integration of robotic art at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2019).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Foundations of Robotics
Book Subtitle: A Multidisciplinary Approach with Python and ROS
Editors: Damith Herath, David St-Onge
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1983-1
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Intelligent Technologies and Robotics, Intelligent Technologies and Robotics (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2022
License: CC BY-NC-ND
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-1982-4Published: 27 September 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-19-1985-5Published: 28 September 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-1983-1Published: 25 September 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 543
Number of Illustrations: 52 b/w illustrations, 174 illustrations in colour
Topics: Control, Robotics, Mechatronics, Artificial Intelligence, Computational Intelligence, Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems, Image Processing and Computer Vision, Cognitive Psychology