Fundamentals of Robotic Mechanical Systems

Jorge Angeles, Ph.D. is a professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Centre for Intelligent Machines at McGill University.

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• An Overview of Robotic Mechanical Systems.- Mathematical Background.- Fundamentals of Rigid-Body Mechanics.- Geometry of Decoupled Serial Robots.- Kinetostatics of Serial Robots.- Trajectory Planning: Pick-and-Place Operations.- Dynamics of Serial Robotic Manipulators.- Special Topics in Rigid-Body Kinematics.- Geometry of General Serial Robots.- Kinematics of Alternative Robotic Mechanical Systems.- Trajectory Planning: Continuous-Path Operations.- Dynamics of Complete Robotic Mechanical Systems.- Kinematics of Rotations: A Summary.- Numerical Equation-Solving.