Springer Handbook of Robotics, 2nd Edition

The second edition of this handbook provides a state-of-the-art cover view on the various aspects in the rapidly developing field of robotics. 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 ongoing vibrant expansion and strong growth of the field during the last decade has fueled this second edition of the Springer Handbook of Robotics.

The first edition of the handbook soon became a landmark in robotics publishing and won the American Association of Publishers PROSE Award for Excellence in Physical Sciences & Mathematics as well as the organization’s Award for Engineering & Technology.

The second edition of the handbook, edited by two internationally renowned scientists with the support of an outstanding team of seven part editors and more than 200 authors, continues to be an authoritative reference for robotics researchers, newcomers to the field, and scholars from related disciplines. The contents have been restructured to achieve four main objectives: the enlargement of foundational topics for robotics, the enlightenment of design of various types of robotic systems, the extension of the treatment on robots moving in the environment, and the enrichment of advanced robotics applications. Further to an extensive update, fifteen new chapters have been introduced on emerging topics, and a new generation of authors have joined the handbook’s team.

A novel addition to the second edition is a comprehensive collection of multimedia references to more than 700 videos, which bring valuable insight into the contents. The videos can be viewed directly augmented into the text with a smartphone or tablet using a unique and specially designed app.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Robotics and the Handbook

Part A Robotics Foundations
Chapter 2 Kinematics
Chapter 3 Dynamics
Chapter 4 Mechanism and Actuation
Chapter 5 Sensing and Estimation
Chapter 6 Model Identification
Chapter 7 Motion Planning
Chapter 8 Motion Control
Chapter 9 Force Control
Chapter 10 Redundant Robots
Chapter 11 Robots with Flexible Elements
Chapter 12 Robotic Systems Architectures and Programming
Chapter 13 Behavior-Based Systems
Chapter 14 AI Reasoning Methods for Robotics
Chapter 15 Robot Learning

Part B Design
Chapter 16 Design and Performance Evaluation
Chapter 17 Limbed Systems
Chapter 18 Parallel Mechanisms
Chapter 19 Robot Hands
Chapter 20 Snake-Like and Continuum Robots
Chapter 21 Actuators for Soft Robotics
Chapter 22 Modular Robots
Chapter 23 Biomimetic Robots
Chapter 24 Wheeled Robots
Chapter 25 Underwater Robots
Chapter 26 Flying Robots
Chapter 27 Micro-/Nanorobots

Part C Sensing and Perception
Chapter 28 Force and Tactile Sensing
Chapter 29 Inertial Sensing, GPS and Odometry
Chapter 30 Sonar Sensing
Chapter 31 Range Sensing
Chapter 32 3-D Vision for Navigation and Grasping
Chapter 33 Visual Object Class Recognition
Chapter 34 Visual Servoing
Chapter 35 Multisensor Data Fusion

Part D Manipulation and Interfaces
Chapter 36 Motion for Manipulation Tasks
Chapter 37 Contact Modeling and Manipulation
Chapter 38 Grasping
Chapter 39 Cooperative Manipulation
Chapter 40 Mobility and Manipulation
Chapter 41 Active Manipulation for Perception
Chapter 42 Haptics
Chapter 43 Telerobotics
Chapter 44 Networked Robots

Part E Moving in the Environment
Chapter 45 World Modeling
Chapter 46 Simultaneous Localization and Mapping
Chapter 47 Motion Planning and Obstacle Avoidance
Chapter 48 Modeling and Control of Legged Robots
Chapter 49 Modeling and Control of Wheeled Mobile Robots
Chapter 50 Modeling and Control of Robots on Rough Terrain
Chapter 51 Modeling and Control of Underwater Robots
Chapter 52 Modeling and Control of Aerial Robots
Chapter 53 Multiple Mobile Robot Systems

Part F Robots at Work
Chapter 54 Industrial Robotics
Chapter 55 Space Robotics
Chapter 56 Robotics in Agriculture and Forestry
Chapter 57 Robotics in Construction
Chapter 58 Robotics in Hazardous Applications
Chapter 59 Robotics in Mining
Chapter 60 Disaster Robotics
Chapter 61 Robot Surveillance and Security
Chapter 62 Intelligent Vehicles
Chapter 63 Medical Robotics and Computer-Integrated Surgery
Chapter 64 Rehabilitation and Health Care Robotics
Chapter 65 Domestic Robotics
Chapter 66 Robotics Competitions and Challenges

Part G Robots and Humans
Chapter 67 Humanoids
Chapter 68 Human Motion Reconstruction
Chapter 69 Physical Human–Robot Interaction
Chapter 70 Human–Robot Augmentation
Chapter 71 Cognitive Human–Robot Interaction
Chapter 72 Social Robotics
Chapter 73 Socially Assistive Robotics
Chapter 74 Learning from Humans
Chapter 75 Biologically Inspired Robotics
Chapter 76 Evolutionary Robotics
Chapter 77 Neurorobotics: From Vision to Action
Chapter 78 Perceptual Robotics
Chapter 79 Robotics for Education
Chapter 80 Roboethics: Social and Ethical Implications