Simulation Books

"Israeli economist Yisrael (Robert J.) Aumann said Monday he was elated after learning in a phone call from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences that he and a fellow scientist had won the 2005 Nobel prize in economics for their game theory analysis.

Aumann, 75, of the Hebrew University and American Thomas C. Schelling, 84, of the University of Maryland were awarded the prize for their work on game theories that help explain economic conflicts, including trade and price wars."

Nuff said.

This is a sentinel book on research with persons living with mental illness- a must have for anyone preparing a research proposal. Fantastic, highly relevant material packed into easy to read chapters. I consistently use this book in literature reviews and methodologies. Dworkin has done an amazing thing by packing so much material into this concise text. HIGHLY recommended.

This 200 page book might not look like much when you first open it up. But...

If you want to understand concepts like: Spatial Kinematics; Spatial Dynamics; Inverse Dynamics; Forward Dynamics - The Composite-Rigid-Body Method; Extending the Dynamics Algorithms; Coordinate Systems and Efficiency; Contact, Impact, and Kinematic Loops, this book is for you!

If you want to learn how to computate efficient algorithms for calculating the dynamics of robot mechanisms represented as systems of rigid bodies, then this book is for you!

The efficiency of these calculations are acchieved by the use of recursive formulations of the equations of motion. The use of recursive formulations in dynamics is fairly new, so the priciples of their operation and reason for their efficiency are explained.

These algorithms are initially described in terms of an un-branhed, open-loop Kinematic chain - atypical serial robot mechanism. This is done to keep the descriptions of the algorithms simple, and is in line with descriptions appearing in the literature. Once the basic algorithms have been introduced, the restrictions on the mechanism are lifted and the algorithms are extended to cope with kinematic trees and loops, and general constraints at the joints. The problem of simulating the effect of contact between a robot and its environment is also considered. Some consideration is given to the details and practical problems of implementing these algorithms on a computer.

The reader is asumed to have a knowledge of vectorial mechanics. No prior knowledge of robot dynamics, or the dynamics of any other kind of rigid-body system, is required.

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This was the item that I really needed and it was just right for my office class that I am taking at my vocational training school.


Donald Woodson

I ordered this book to help prepare our entry in next year's competition. It looks like we are not going to make it, but I am still glad I ordered RoboCup. Almost 800 pages of robot know-how plus tons of illustrations - it just keeps on giving! This has been and will continue to be a great source of information for my other robotics projects. The RoboCup books are one of the best-kept secrets to success in amateur robotics.

This book is intended to provide an introduction to robotics with a special emphasis on mathematically modelling the movements of robot manipulators. It is suitable for a senior level undergratuate or a beginning year graduate level course in robotics. This book is primarily aimed at how robots move things around in an industrial automation environment rather than the more popularized 'build your own robot' type of book.

It is mathematically rigorous and the student should have some understanding of matrix manipulation, vectors, and knowledge of the trigonometric functions. It would be suitable for courses in industrial engineering, computer automation, and other areas where robot motion is used.

The book includes a CD with interactive visualization software using VRML (a VRML bho is included on the disk), and specialized computational software for robotics. This text is one of the first to use these computer based visualization routines for describing robotic motion.

I ordered this program for my daughter-in-law at Christmas. She teaches 5th grade and has the kids enjoying the program. It comes with black line masters and instructions for science experiments. They are all enjoying the interactive learning.

This book is very good about theoretical approach to electromagnetic scattering for graduate students. Topics are clearly expressed and easy to follow. Some of the applications such as interferometric SAR, radar polarimetry, RCS, Remute Sensing are examinated.

The many colour illustrations in the book are one of its neatest features. They help greatly in conveying what can be done with good visualisation ideas.

You might usefully combine reading this book with another recent text from Springer - "Visualising the Semantic Web" by Geroimenko and Chen. The latter book has more emphasis on XML encoded data that is geared towards the Semantic Web. Whereas this book takes a more general approach towards the data being researched. But the combination of both books may give insight into your visualisation issues.

The book covers a wide range of subjects. One section deals with volume visualisation in the medical field. Typically, there is medical data that comes from or maps to a 3 dimensional volume inside a body. How then to usefully display this?

While another section involves displaying vector fields. There is even a chapter delving into grid computing and how to handle the massive amounts of data generated.

This book does an excellent job of covering the basic theory of semiconductor devices. Through the use of an innovative simulation tool, the book walks the reader through the world of semiconductor devices. The book and software provide an easy way to gain an understanding of the physics involved in the complicated world of semiconductor devices.