B. Siciliano – Springer Handbook of Robotics (2016)

Автор: B. Siciliano
Название книги: Springer Handbook of Robotics (2016)
Формат: PDF
Жанр: Робототехника
Страницы: 2155
Качество: Изначально компьютерное, E-book

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

The Springer Handbook of Robotics was a challenging
six-year endeavour from 2002 to 2008. It mobilized
a large number of active scientists and researchers to
produce this unique comprehensive reference source
combining basic and advanced developments. The
handbook has been very successful and extremely
well received in our community. New researchers have
been attracted to robotics which in turn have contributed
to further progress in this trans-disciplinary
field.
The handbook soon established itself as a landmark
in robotics publishing and beyond. It has been
the bestseller of all Springer engineering books during
the last seven years, the number one in chapter downloads
(nearly forty thousand a year), and the fourth
most downloaded over all Springer books in 2011.
In February 2009, the handbook was recognized as
the Winner of the American Association of Publishers
(AAP) PROSE Award for Excellence in Physical
Sciences & Mathematics as well as the Award for Engineering
& Technology.
The rapid growth of our field as well as the birth
of new research areas motivated us in 2011 to start
pursuing a second edition with the intent to provide
not only an update but also an expansion of the handbook’s
contents. Our editorial board (with David Orin,
Frank Park, Henrik Christensen, Makoto Kaneko, Raja
Chatila, Alex Zelinsky, and Daniela Rus) has been
enthusiastically engaged during the last four years
to coordinate the contributions of the authors to the
seven parts of the handbook in its three-layer structure.
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.Most
previous chapters have been revised, fifteen new chapters
have been introduced on emerging topics, and
a new generation of authors have joined the handbook’s
team. The contents were finalized by the spring
of 2015 after extensive review and feedback, and the
project was completed by the fall of 2015 – generating,
by that time, a record of over 12 000 additional
emails in our folders to the 10 000 of the
first edition. The result is an impressive collection of
80 chapters over the 7 parts, contributed by 229 authors,
with more than 2300 pages, 1375 illustrations and 9411
references.
One of the major additions of the second edition
of the handbook is the inclusion of multimedia material.
An editorial team has been established under
the leadership of Torsten Kröger and the contributions
of Gianluca Antonelli, Dongjun Lee, Dezhen
Song and Stefano Stramigioli. With the commitment
of such a group of energetic young scholars, the multimedia
project has been pursued in parallel to the
handbook project. The multimedia editorial team has
selected for each chapter video contributions, from
those suggested by the authors, based on their quality
and relevance to the chapter’s contents. In addition,
the handbook editors have produced tutorial videos that
can be accessed directly from each part of the handbook.
An openly accessible multimedia website, http://
handbookofrobotics.org, has been established to host
these videos with the sponsorship of IEEE Robotics and
Automation Society and Google. The website has been
conceived as a live dissemination project bringing the
latest robotics contributions to the world community.
We are deeply grateful for the continuous commitment
of our handbook extended team, particularly the
newcomers to the project. We would like to express
our gratitude and appreciation to Judith Hinterberg,
Werner Skolaut and Thomas Ditzinger from Springer
for their strong support, as well as to Anne Strohbach
and the le-tex staff for their highly professional typesetting
work in the production.