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Essays on Mathematical Robotics (The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications)
	Creators: John Baillieul, Shankar S. Sastry, Hector J. Sussmann Publisher: Springer Category: Book List Price: ~~$119.00~~ Buy New: $46.61 You Save: $72.39 (61%) New (13) Used (8) from $46.61 Sales Rank: 5858421 Media: Hardcover Edition: 1 Pages: 372 Number Of Items: 1 Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5 Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.2 x 1.2 ISBN: 0387985964 Dewey Decimal Number: 629.8920151 EAN: 9780387985961 ASIN: 0387985964 Publication Date: September 25, 1998 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Shipping: Expedited shipping available Shipping: International shipping available Condition: brand new, never used, great value, same day shipment with free delivery confirmation number. International order will ship via AIR (Global Piority Mail.) Most countries will delivery in 4-6 days.


Editorial Reviews: Product Description The chapters in this book present an excellent exposition of recent developments in both robotics and nonlinear control centering around "hyper-redundancy", highly oscillatory inputs, optimal control, exterior differential systems, and the use of generic loops. The principal topics covered in the book are: adaptive control for a class of nonlinear systems, event-based motion planning, nonlinear control synthesis and path planning in robotics with special emphasis on nonholonomic and "hyper-redundant" robotic systems, control design and stabilization of driftless affine control systems (of the type arising in the kinematic control of nonholonomic robotic systems), control design methods for Hamiltonian systems and exterior differential systems. The chapter covering exterior differential systems contains a detailed introduction to the use of exterior differential methods, including the Goursat and extended Goursat normal forms and their application to path planning for nonholonomic systems.