The objective of this book is to provide those interested in the field of flexible robotics with an overview of several scientific and technological advances in the practical field of robotic manipula
Describes the types of robots and probes that have been developed to perform outer space exploration, discussing the Hubble Space Telescope, the Cassini orbiter, the Curiosity rover, and the Canadarm
Looks at the history of combat robots, describing their invention in the 1970s and 1980s, the Robot Wars events of the 1990s, and the increasing sophistication for the creations of larger robots by th
Explains what drones and other robots are and offers examples of the many ways they can be used, including search and rescue, delivering packages, and aerial photography.
Noisy optimization is a topic of growing interest for researchers working on mainstream optimization problems. Although several techniques for dealing with stochastic noise in optimization problems ar
The concept of swarm intelligence at first originated from the observation of nature. Through the observation and study of the behaviour of swarms of living creatures as ants colony, bird flocks, bees
