Fundamentals of Robotics

by David Ardayfio

Overview

Fundamentals of Robotics presents the basic concepts of robots to engineering and technology students and to practicing engineers who want to grasp the fundamentals in the growing field of robotics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780824774400
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/29/1987
Series:	Mechanical Engineering , #57
Pages:	448
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

David D. Ardayfio is Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. Prior to this he taught at the University of Missouri-Rolla, University of Liberia, and University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana. The author of over 70 publications on CAD/CAM, mechanisms, robotics, and expert systems, he has conducted research on these subjects funded by industry and the National Science Foundation, and he has served as a consultant in mechanical engineering and automation. He is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Robotics International, and the Engineering Society of Detroit. Dr. Ardayfio received the B.S. degree (1968) in mechanical engineering from Ghana University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, and M.S. (1970) and Ph.D. (1972) degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of Minnesota.

Table of Contents

1. Basic Components of Robot Arms 2. End Effectors 3. End-of-Arm Tooling and Workpiece Positioners 4. End-of-Arm Sensors 5. Robot Controllers 6. Nontextual Programming 7. Textual Programming 8. Robot Vision Systems 9. Robot Applications 10. Geometry of the Workspace 11. Kinematics and Trajectory Generation 12. Dynamics and Control