Modern Robotics. Mechanics, Planning, and Control

This introduction to robotics offers a distinct and unified perspective of the mechanics, planning and control of robots. Ideal for self-learning, or for courses as assumes only freshman-level physics, ordinary differential equations, linear algebra and a little bit of computing background. Modern Robotics : presents the state-of-the-art screw-theoretic techniques capturing the most salient physical features of a robot in an intuitive geometrical way ; includes numerous exercises at the end of each chapter for self-assessment ; has an accompanying, freely-downloadable software written to reinforce the concepts in the book ; provides freely-downloadable video lectures aimed at changing the classroom experience.
Students watch these briefs lectures on their own time, rewinding and re-watching as needed, whilst class time is focused on collaborative problem-solving ; offers instructors the opportunity to design both one- and two-semester courses tailored to emphasize a range of topics, such as kinematics of robots and wheeled vehicles, kinematics and motion planning, mechanics of manipulation, and robot control ; can be used either with courses or for self-learning.