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Springer handbook of robotics (2nd ed.)
Siciliano B., Khatib O., Springer International Publishing, New York, NY, 2016. 2227 pp. Type: Book (978-3-319325-50-7)
Date Reviewed: Feb 17 2017

This handbook describes a very large number of topics on robotics. It describes robots with individual functional, control, programming, social, application, and historical aspects. It provides necessary mathematics, algorithms, demonstrations, illustrations, and overviews to understand and design robots.

The book organizes 80 chapters in Parts A through G. Part A is on the foundations of robotics with 15 chapters. Chapters 1 through 6 are on how to achieve common design goals, and model identification. Chapters 7 through 15 are on controls, and programming aspects. The physical aspects of design include chapters on kinematics, dynamics, actuation, sensing, and estimation. The control aspects include motion planning, motion controls, redundancies, and architectures. The part finishes with chapters on behavior-based systems.

Part B, chapters 16 through 27, discusses the designs of various types of robots in detail, including limbed robots, parallel robots, robot hands, snake robots, soft robots, modular robots, biomimetic robots, wheeled robots, underwater robots, flying robots, and micro robots. Each chapter discusses the specialized design considerations of the robot type being discussed. Chapter 16 identifies some performance parameters for the designs.

Part C, chapters 28 through 35, is on robotic sensing. Its chapters on vision sensing describe 3D vision, vision of object recognition, vision for grasping, vision for navigation, and so on. Apart from vision sensing, the part also describes force sensing, touch sensing, thermal sensing, and hearing sensing. It ends with a chapter on multi-sensing data fusion.

Part D, chapters 36 through 44, is on the manipulation aspects of robots. It begins by describing the process of grasping objects, including motion and touch sensing for grasping. Later it describes cooperative tasks for manipulation. The tasks include perception-based and touching-based cooperation. The part finishes by describing telecommunications and networking-based manipulation.

Part E, chapters 45 through 53, is on robotic motion in environments such as land, underwater, and air. The descriptions for motion on land include moving in rough terrains, obstacle avoidance, and moving in unknown lands. It addresses robots with legs and robots with wheels. The last chapter in the part is on multiple mobile robot systems.

Part F is on applications of robots. Chapters 54 through 66 describe applications in the fields of civil engineering constructions, mechanical engineering industries, mining, space, agriculture, forestry, security, vehicles, medical surgeries, healthcare, and in the home. The last chapter in this part describes some robotics competitions.

Part G (chapters 67 through 80) is on human and social aspects. It begins with chapters on humanoids (human-like robots) with topics on human-humanoid interactions. The interactions include physical movements, cognitive interactions, and learning. The part also has chapters on related topics such as neurorobotics and perceptual robotics. The chapters on social aspects include biologically inspired robotics, evolutionary robotics, robotics for education, and ethics.

The book is written by experienced academicians from many parts of the world. Each chapter has a summary and references (books, papers, and videos). Each part also has its own summary. The book can be used by students of many disciplines (robotics, computer science, mechanical engineering, physics, civil engineering, sociology, management, and so on) and at many levels (undergraduate, graduate, and research). Readers with commercial interests can read Parts F and G first. As a handbook, the reader will have to carry a heavy book, but will have a huge amount of knowledge on robotics at hand.

Reviewer:  Maulik A. Dave Review #: CR145070 (1705-0263)
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