Springer Handbook of Robotics
Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, (2008)Abstract
Robotics is undergoing a major transformation in scope and dimension.
Starting from a predominantly industrial focus, robotics has been
rapidly expanding into the challenges of unstructured environments.
The Springer Handbook of Robotics incorporates these new developments
and therefore basically differs from other handbooks of robotics
focusing on industrial applications. It presents a widespread and
well-structured coverage from the foundations of robotics, through
the consolidated methodologies and technologies, up to the new emerging
application areas of robotics. The handbook is an ideal resource
for robotics experts but also for people new to this expanding field
such as engineers, medical doctors, computer scientists, designers.
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 widespreadand 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.
