Ebook Introduction to Robotics: Mechanics and Control - John J. Craig

This book introduces the science and engineering of mechanical manipulation.This subdiscipline of robotics has its foundations in several classical fields. The major relevant fields are mechanics, control theory, and computer science. In this book,Chapters 1 through 8 cover topics from mechanical engineering and mathematics,Chapters 9 through 11 cover control-theoretical material, and Chapters 12 and 13 might be classed as computer-science material. Additionally, the book emphasizes computational aspects of the problems throughout; for example, each chapter that is concerned predominantly with mechanics has a brief section devoted to computational considerations.