Springer Handbook of Robotics

Reaching for the human frontier, robotics is vigorously engaged in the growing challenges of new emerging domains. Interacting, exploring, and working with humans, the new generation of robots will increasingly touch people and their lives. The credible prospect of practical robots among humans is the result of the scientific endeavour of a half a century of robotic developments that established robotics as a modern scientific discipline.
The Springer Handbook of Robotics brings a widespread
and well-structured compilation of classic and emerging application areas of robotics. From the foundations to the social and ethical implications of robotics, the handbook provides a comprehensive collection of the accomplishments in the field, and constitutes a premise of further advances towards new challenges in robotics.
This handbook, edited by two internationally renowned scientists with the support of an outstanding team of seven part editors and onehundred sixty-four authors, is an authoritative reference for robotics researchers, newcomers to the field, and scholars from related disciplines such as biomechanics, neurosciences, virtual simulation, animation, surgery, and sensor networks among others.
Key Topics
Robotics foundations
Robot structures
Sensing and perception
Manipulation and interfaces
Mobile and distributed robotics
Field and service robotics
Human-centered and life-like robotics

Features
Comprehensive coverage of research and development in robotics
Scientific resource for both experts and non experts in the field
Technical contents laid out in a tutorial setting
A coherent three-layer organization: robotics foundations, consolidated
methodologies and technologies, advanced applications
Anchored in seven parts expanded into sixty-four chapters with interconnected
presentation of subject matter
Developed in about 1650 pages with over 950 color illustrations including
422 four-color, 80 tables and over 5500 references
Detailed index and fully searchable DVD-ROM providing rapid access to
data and links to other source