Concise encyclopedia of robotics

Stan Gibilisco9780071410106, 0071410104

Robotics contains elements of mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and computer science. One of the challenges in reading a robotics text or entering the field as a hobbyist is the variety of concepts and terminology one must know. This book, a “how things work” for the robotics field, provides about 400 brief articles explaining concepts from “acoustic proximity sensor” to “zooming. Some entries are very short; “Guidance System,” for example, requires only two sentences and refers to other articles. A longer article like “Logic Gate” is a page and a half long, including a diagram and table. Most topics are technical, but some are philosophical, such as “Jungian World Theory.”

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Table of contents :
Copyright……Page 5
Contents……Page 9
Foreword……Page 11
Introduction……Page 13
Acknowledgments……Page 15
A……Page 17
B……Page 37
C……Page 55
D……Page 77
E……Page 99
F……Page 119
G……Page 137
H……Page 149
I……Page 161
J……Page 179
K……Page 185
L……Page 189
M……Page 199
N……Page 215
O……Page 225
P……Page 235
Q……Page 263
R……Page 269
S……Page 291
T……Page 323
U……Page 341
V……Page 345
W……Page 357
XYZ……Page 363
Suggested Additional References……Page 367
Index……Page 369
About the Author……Page 383