Description: This book discusses the parametric modeling, performance evaluation, design optimization and comparative study of the high-speed, parallel pick-and-place robots. It collects the modeling methodology, evaluation criteria and design guidelines for parallel PnP robots to provide a systematic analysis method for robotic developers. Furthermore, it gathers the research results previously scattered in many prestigious international journals and conference proceedings and methodically edits them and presents them in a unified form. The book is of interest to researchers, R&D engineers and graduate students in industrial parallel robotics who wish to learn the core principles, methods, algorithms, and applications.
Review Quotes:
"Books on parallel robots or PnP robots are rare, the combination of both topics is quite unique. ... A typical chapter starts with a compact theoretical introduction of relevant concepts which is followed by a detailed discussion at hand of several more or less sophisticated PnP robots. This focus on concrete examples makes the book well suited for self-study, but it is certainly also suited as primary reading for a theoretical robotics class at graduate level." (Hans-Peter Schröcker, zbMATH 1537.70002, 2024)