Advanced Studies of Flexible Robotic Manipulators

Download or read book Advanced Studies of Flexible Robotic Manipulators written by Fei-Yue Wang and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2003 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flexible robotic manipulators pose various challenges in research as compared to rigid robotic manipulators, ranging from system design, structural optimization, and construction to modeling, sensing, and control. Although significant progress has been made in many aspects over the last one-and-a-half decades, many issues are not resolved yet, and simple, effective, and reliable controls of flexible manipulators still remain an open quest. Clearly, further efforts and results in this area will contribute significantly to robotics (particularly automation) as well as its application and education in general control engineering. To accelerate this process, the leading experts in this important area present in this book the state of the art in advanced studies of the design, modeling, control and applications of flexible manipulators.