Although parallel robots are known to offer many advantages with respect to accuracy, dynamics, and stiffness, major breakthroughs in industrial applications have not yet taken place. This is due to a knowledge gap preventing fast and precise execution of industrial handling and assembly tasks. This book focuses on the design, modeling, and control of innovative parallel structures as well as the integration of novel machine elements. Special attention is paid to the integration of active components into lightweight links and passive joints. In addition, new control concepts are introduced to minimize structural vibrations. Although the optimization of robot systems itself allows a reduction of cycle times, these can be further decreased by improved path planning, robot programming, and automated assembly planning concepts described by 25 contributions within this book. The content of this volume is subdivided into four main parts dealing with Modeling and Design, System Implementation, Control and Programming as well as Adaptronics and Components. This book is aimed at researchers and postgraduates working in the field of parallel robots as well as practicing engineers dealing with industrial robot development and robotic applications.

This book is a collection of scienti c papers presented at the German Workshop on Robotics-a convention of researchers from academia and industry working on mathematical and algorithmic foundations of robotics, on the design and ana- sis of robotic systems as well as on robotic applications. As a new event of the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur .. Robotik (DGR, German Robotics Society), the workshop took place at the Technische Universitat .. Carolo-Wilhelmina zu Braunschweig on June 9-10, 2009. Covering some of the most important ongoing robotics research topics, this v- ume contains 31 carefully selected and discussed contributions. All of them were presented at the workshop that was attended by 80 researchers representing a wide range of research areas within robotics. The papers are organized in ten scienti c tracks: Kinematic and Dynamic Modeling, Motion Generation, Sensor Integration, Robot Vision, Robot Programming, Humanoid Robots, Grasping, Medical Rob- ics, AutonomousHelicopters,andRobotApplications.Two invitedtalksbyAntonio Bicchi and Atsuo Takanishi presented surveys of research activities in the elds of human-robotinteraction and humanoid robotics. The Program Committee was comprised of Karsten Berns, Oliver Brock, W- fram Burgard, Martin Buss, Thomas Christaller, Ru ..diger Dillmann, Bernd Fin- meyer, Martin Hagel .. e, Bodo Heimann, Dominik Henrich, Gerd Hirzinger, Alois Knoll, Helge-Bjorn .. Kuntze, Gisbert Lawitzky, Jur .. gen Rossmann, Roland Siegwart, Markus Vincze, and Heinz Worn...After an extensive review and discussion process, the committee met at February 17, 2009, and composed the scienti c program from a pool of 49 submissions.

Although parallel robots are known to offer many advantages with respect to accuracy, dynamics, and stiffness, major breakthroughs in industrial applications have not yet taken place. This is due to a knowledge gap preventing fast and precise execution of industrial handling and assembly tasks. This book focuses on the design, modeling, and control of innovative parallel structures as well as the integration of novel machine elements. Special attention is paid to the integration of active components into lightweight links and passive joints. In addition, new control concepts are introduced to minimize structural vibrations. Although the optimization of robot systems itself allows a reduction of cycle times, these can be further decreased by improved path planning, robot programming, and automated assembly planning concepts described by 25 contributions within this book. The content of this volume is subdivided into four main parts dealing with Modeling and Design, System Implementation, Control and Programming as well as Adaptronics and Components. This book is aimed at researchers and postgraduates working in the field of parallel robots as well as practicing engineers dealing with industrial robot development and robotic applications.

This book is a collection of scienti c papers presented at the German Workshop on Robotics-a convention of researchers from academia and industry working on mathematical and algorithmic foundations of robotics, on the design and ana- sis of robotic systems as well as on robotic applications. As a new event of the Deutsche Gesellschaft fur .. Robotik (DGR, German Robotics Society), the workshop took place at the Technische Universitat .. Carolo-Wilhelmina zu Braunschweig on June 9-10, 2009. Covering some of the most important ongoing robotics research topics, this v- ume contains 31 carefully selected and discussed contributions. All of them were presented at the workshop that was attended by 80 researchers representing a wide range of research areas within robotics. The papers are organized in ten scienti c tracks: Kinematic and Dynamic Modeling, Motion Generation, Sensor Integration, Robot Vision, Robot Programming, Humanoid Robots, Grasping, Medical Rob- ics, AutonomousHelicopters,andRobotApplications.Two invitedtalksbyAntonio Bicchi and Atsuo Takanishi presented surveys of research activities in the elds of human-robotinteraction and humanoid robotics. The Program Committee was comprised of Karsten Berns, Oliver Brock, W- fram Burgard, Martin Buss, Thomas Christaller, Ru ..diger Dillmann, Bernd Fin- meyer, Martin Hagel .. e, Bodo Heimann, Dominik Henrich, Gerd Hirzinger, Alois Knoll, Helge-Bjorn .. Kuntze, Gisbert Lawitzky, Jur .. gen Rossmann, Roland Siegwart, Markus Vincze, and Heinz Worn...After an extensive review and discussion process, the committee met at February 17, 2009, and composed the scienti c program from a pool of 49 submissions.

Mit dem vorliegenden Buch soli eine Einfuhrung in die digitale Bildverarbeitung gege ben werden. Hierbei werden gemiii3 der allgemeinen Themenstellung der vorliegenden Buchreihe insbesondere die signalorientierten Aspekte der Bildverarbeitungin den Vor dergrund gestellt. Den besonderen Reiz der Bildverarbeitung sehe ich in dem inter essanten Zusammenwirken von intuitiven und theoretischen Losungsansiitzen, die jeweils durch "anschauliche" Experimente evaluierbar sind. Entsprechend wird in der vorliegenden Darstellungversucht, insbesondere anhand von zahlreichen Simulations beispielen ein Verstiindnis dieses jungen, an Bedeutung zunehmenden Gebietes beim Leser zu erreichen. Zum Verstiindnis des Buches sind aui3er Kenntnissen der Mathema tik, wie sie etwa in ingenieurwissenschaftlichen Studiengiingen vermittelt werden, Grundkenntnisse der linearen Systemtheorie bzw. Signalverarbeitung und Grund kenntnisse der Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung vorteilhaft. Das Material des vorliegenden Buches wurde zum griii3ten Teil wiihrend meinerwissen schaftlichen Tiitigkeit am Lehrstuhl fur Nachrichtentechnik derTechnischen Universi tiit in Miinchen erarbeitet. Meinen herzlichen Dank miichte ich an dieser Stelle Herrn Prof. Dr. H. Marko aussprechen, der dieses Buch anregte, in groi3ziigiger Art unter stiitzte und durch zahlreiche Ratschliige fiirderte. Besonderen Dank gebiihrt auch meinen friiheren und jetzigen Kollegen fur viele Diskussionen und Anregungen zur behandelten Problematik. Meinen zahlreichen friiheren Studenten verdanke ich nicht nur einen Groi3teil der Illustrationen, sondem auch sehr viel Spai3 beim gemeinsamen Experimentieren und Suchen nach Liisungen wiihrend der letzten Jahre. Schliei3lich sei der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft fur ihre finanzielle Unterstiitzung gedankt."

Alternativenergien, das ist ein Begriff und wohl auch ein Schlagwort unserer Zeit. In der Tat: Die Zukunft der Menschheit hangt davon ab, ob und wie fruhzeitig sie sich um die damit zusammenhangenden Fragen kummert, wenn sie nicht einen Kollaps unserer hochkomplizierten Welt riskieren will. Gerade die rege- nerativen Energietrager, wie Sonnen-, Meeres- und Windenergie sowie Biomasse- nutzung, koennten das vermeiden helfen. Das vorliegende Buch versteht sich als Beitrag zu einer solchen Energie- diskussion. Es ist aus einer grundlichen UEberarbeitung eines Seminars an der Univer- sitat Tubingen uber das Thema der Alternativenergien hervorgegangen. W. Kremers hat sich dieser umfangreichen Arbeit unterzogen, wobei er aus der Fulle der Ideen und Realsierungen diejenigen Energieformen auswahlte, denen man eine gewisse Zukunft vorhersagen darf. Neben den physikalisch-technischen Projekten kommt den Verfahren, aus Biomasse Energie zu gewinnen, immer mehr Bedeutung zu. Eine abgerundete Darstellung zu diesem Thema stammt von J. Thiele. Die Konzeption des Buches wurde so aufgefasst, dass es sich in der Mitte zwischen den zahlreichen und ausfuhrlichen Einzeldarstellungen zu bestimmten Themen und den undifferenzierten Gesamtdarstellungen bewegt. Es soll insbeson- dere den Studenten der Naturwissenschaften einen UEberblick uber den gegenwar- tigen Stand der Energiediskussion ermoeglichen, aber auch Lehrern und interessier- ten Nichtfachleuten einen Einblick in die vielfaltigen Moeglichkeiten gewahren. Dementsprechend wurden jedem Kapitel eine kleine Einfuhrung in die Grundlagen vorangestellt und danach die technischen Realisierungen besprochen. Wo es heute schon moeglich ist, werden Kosten und Wirtschaftlichkeit (Stand etwa 1980) disku- tiert. Der Umfang des Buches sollte dabei einen bestimmten Rahmen nicht uber- schreiten.

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