Industrial automation is driving the development of robot manipulators in various applications, with much of the research effort focussed on flexible manipulators and their advantages compared to their rigid counterparts. This book reports recent advances and new developments in the analysis and control of these robot manipulators. After a general overview of flexible manipulators the book introduces a range of modelling and simulation techniques based on the Lagrange equation formulation, parametric approaches based on linear input/output models using system identification techniques, neuro-modelling approaches, and numerical techniques for dynamic characterisation using finite difference and finite element techniques. Control techniques are then discussed, including a range of open-loop and closed-loop control techniques based on classical and modern control methods including neuro and iterative control, and a range of soft-computing control techniques based on fuzzy logic, neural networks, and evolutionary and bio-inspired optimisation paradigms. Finally the book presents SCEFMAS, a software environment for analysis, design, simulation and control of flexible manipulators. Flexible Robot Manipulators is essential reading for advanced students of robotics, mechatronics and control engineering and will serve as a source of reference for research in areas of modelling, simulation and control of dynamic flexible structures in general and, specifically, of flexible robotic manipulators.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Institution of Engineering and Technology
ISBN-13
9781849195836
eBay Product ID (ePID)
7046434179
Product Key Features
Author
M.O. Tokhi, A.K.M. Azad
Publication Name
Flexible Robot Manipulators: Modelling, Simulation and Control
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Engineering & Technology
Publication Year
2017
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
536 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
234mm
Item Width
156mm
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
A.K.M. Azad, M.O. Tokhi
Series Title
Control, Robotics and Sensors
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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