Trajectory Planning for Automatic Machines and Robots

• Basic Motion Profiles.- Analytic Expressions of Elementary Trajectories.- Composition of Elementary Trajectories.- Multipoint Trajectories.- Elaboration and Analysis of Trajectories.- Operations on Trajectories.- Trajectories and Actuators.- Dynamic Analysis of Trajectories.- Trajectories in the Operational Space.- Multidimensional Trajectories and Geometric Path Planning.- From Geometric Paths to Trajectories.- Appendices.- A Numerical Issues.- B B-spline, Nurbs and Bézier curves.- C Representation of the Orientation.- D Spectral Analysis and Fourier Transform.- Trajectory Planning.- Trajectory Planning.

From the reviews: "This book is intended for engineers and technicians in the fields of automatic machines and robotics as well as for developers of applications for multiaxis machines and robot cells." (IEEE Control Systems Magazine, Vol. 30, February, 2010)