Table of contents

Advanced Robotic Engineering

From rigorous fundamentals to research-level robotic systems design, modeling, control, perception, learning, and autonomy

Read each section in order. Every title can be opened as a TheoryTrace document.

• Cover
• Copyright
• How to read this book
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Mathematical Foundations for Robotics
• Chapter 2: Rigid-Body Motion and Lie Group Methods
• Chapter 3: Forward and Inverse Kinematics
• Chapter 4: Velocity Kinematics, Jacobians, and Manipulability
• Chapter 5: Robot Dynamics
• Chapter 6: Actuation, Transmission, and Mechatronic Design
• Chapter 7: Classical and Modern Robot Control
• Chapter 8: Nonlinear, Optimal, and Model Predictive Control
• Chapter 9: State Estimation and Sensor Fusion
• Chapter 10: Robot Perception
• Chapter 11: Localization and Simultaneous Localization and Mapping
• Chapter 12: Motion Planning and Trajectory Generation
• Chapter 13: Contact, Grasping, and Manipulation
• Chapter 14: Legged, Aerial, Marine, and Field Robotics
• Chapter 15: Human–Robot Interaction and Collaborative Robotics
• Chapter 16: Machine Learning for Robotics
• Chapter 17: Robot Learning for Control, Perception, and Manipulation
• Chapter 18: Multi-Robot Systems and Swarm Robotics
• Chapter 19: Safety, Verification, Reliability, and Ethics
• Chapter 20: Research Methods in Advanced Robotic Engineering
• Conclusion