This book presents an extensive survey of the state-of-the-art research in parallel computational algorithms and architectures for robot manipulator control and simulation. It deals not only with specifics but also includes general and broader issues which serve as a useful foundation to the topic. The educational flavor of the book makes it a necessary resource for researchers, engineers and students wanting to be familiarized with the potential offered by the application of parallel processing to robotic problems, and its current issues and trends.
Introduction - computational robotics, A. Bejczy and A. Fijany; parallel computation of robot inverse dynamics, G. Lee; fast neural learning algorithms for robot kinematics and dynamics, J. Barhen et al; software for coordination of multiple robots and multiprocessor implementation, S. Ahmad and R. Guptill; non-strict computation of the manipulator inertia matrix, M. Amin-Javaheri and D.E. Orin; parallel processing of robot control and simulation, H. Kasahara; robot mathematics processor (RMP) - an algorithmically-specialized parallel architecture for robotics, A. Fijany and A. Bejczy.
DEMIRIS JOHN, Andreas Birk, Yiannis Demiris, Germany) Birk, Andreas (Int'l Univ Bremen, Uk) Demiris, Yiannis (Imperial College Of Science, Technology & Medicine