These 16 contributions provide a field guide to robotics science today.These 16 contributions provide a field guide to robotics science today. Each takes up current work the problems addressed, and future directions in the areas of perception, planning, control, design, and actuation. In a substantial introduction, Michael Brady summarizes a personal list of 30 problems, problem areas, and issues that lie on the path to development of a science of robotics. These involve sensing vision, mobility, design, control, manipulation, reasoning, geometric reasoning and systems integration.ContentsThe Problems of Robotics, Michael Brady • Perception. A Few Steps Toward Artificial 3-D Vision, Olivier D. Faugeras • Contact Sensing for Robot Active Touch, Paolo Dario • Learning and Recognition in Natural Environments, Alex Pentland and Robert Bolles • 3-D Vision for Outdoor Navigation by an Autonomous Vehicle, Martial Hebert and Takeo Kanade • Planning. Geometric Issues in Planning Robot Tasks, Tomas Lozano Perez and Russell Taylor • Robotic Manipulation: Mechanics and Planning, Matthew Mason • Control. A Survey of Manipulation and Assembly: Development of the Field and Open Research Issues, Daniel Whitney • Control, Suguru Arimoto • Kinematics and Dynamics for Control, John Hollerbach • The Whole Iguana, Rodney Brooks • Design and Actuation. Design and Kinematics for Force and Velocity Control of Manipulators and End Effectors, Bernard Roth • Arm Design, Haruhiko Asada • Behavior Based Design of Robot Effectors, Stephen Jacobsen, Craig Smith, Klaus Biggers, and Edwin Iversen • Using an Articulated Hand to Manipulate Objects, Kenneth Salisbury, David Brock and Patrick O'Donnell • Legged Robots, Marc RaibertRobotics Science is included in the System Development Foundation Benchmark series. System Development Foundation grants have contributed significantly to the development of robotics in the United States during the 1980s.

Robotics Science (System Development Foundation Benchmark Series)

Computers & Technology

Brady, Michael

Computer Science

Mit Pr

Dr. Lester A. Gerhardt Professor and Chairman Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, New York 12180 This book is a collection of papers on the subject of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. Most of the papers contained herein were presented as part of the program of the NATO Advanced Study Institute held in June 1983 at Castel vecchio Pascoli, Italy on the same subject. Attendance at this two week Institute was by invitation only, drawing people internationally representing industry, government and the academic community worldwide. Many of the people in attendance, as well as those presenting papers, are recognized leaders in the field. In addition to the formal paper presentations, there were several informal work shops. These included a workshop on sensing, a workshop on educational methodology in the subject area, as examples. This book is an outgrowth and direct result of that Institute and includes the papers presented as well as a few others which were stimulated by that meeting. A special note is the paper entitled "State-of-the-Art and Predictions for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics" by Dr. R. Nagel which appears in the Introduction and Overview chapter of this book. This paper was originally developed as part of a study for the United States Army performed by the National Research Council of the National Academy of Science and published as part of a report entitled "Applications of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence to Reduce Risk and Improve Effectiveness" by National Academy Press in 1983.

Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (NATO Asi Series. Series F, Computer and Systems Sciences)

Gerhardt, Lester A.

Springer, Verlag

The Coda Alliance

Dell Publishing

If you have a nagging feeling that somehow your life has gotten off track, Discovering Your Soul Mission can help you create the most fulfilling life possible. Karmic astrologer and holistic teacher Linda Brady, along with coauthor Michael Brady, shows how the desires of our personalities--what we think we want--clash with the needs of our souls--what will make us truly happy. In order to pinpoint your soul mission, Brady uses the technique of karmic astrology, which--unlike the more familiar sun-sign astrology--delves into areas known previously only to the cognoscenti. With this easy-to-use method, you do not have to obtain an astrological chart. All the required information is provided here to help you instantly discover the sign ruling your soul mission. You will learn your Soul Pattern sign, which governs old habits that you need to let go, and your Soul Potential sign, which indicates your latent qualities and hidden talents that must be developed to follow your true path. Virgo perfectionism, for instance, can give way to Pisces intuition; Sagittarian procrastination can give way to Gemini creativity. In this revised and expanded edition, Brady updates her 1998 classic with new techniques and strategies to aid readers in living happier lives, as well as with planetary tables to the year 2035, making the book useful for the next generation. She offers new chapters on Chiron and Uranus, which emerge from her work with clients in more recent years, as well as an expansion of her discussion of the transition from the Age of Pisces to the Age of Aquarius. Brady offers numerous meditation, journaling, dream work, and other exercises to explore and incorporate your soul mission into your current life. Other planetary influences also shape the particular flavor of your mission. For example, the book includes tables to find out what sign rules your style of communication and shows you how to use that personal style to further enhance your mission. This lively, interactive handbook will assist you in your pursuit of the ultimate destination of your soul road.

Discovering Your Soul Mission: New Rules for a New Age

Self-Help

Brady, Linda

Personal Transformation

Linda Brady

Coda Alliance

Literature & Fiction

M.Joseph

Over recent decades, pain has received increasing attention as philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists try to answer deep and difficult questions about it. What is pain? What makes pain unpleasant? How is pain related to the emotions? This volume provides a rich and wide-ranging exploration of these questions and important new insights into the philosophy of pain. Divided into three clear sections – pain and motivation, pain and emotion, and deviant pain – the collection covers fundamental topics in the philosophy and psychology of pain. These include pain and sensory affect, the neuroscience of pain, pain and rationality, placebos, and pain and consciousness.  Philosophy of Pain: Unpleasantness, Emotion, and Deviance is essential reading for students and researchers in philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, cognitive and behavioral psychology, as well as those in health and medicine researching conceptual issues in pain.

Philosophy of Pain: Unpleasantness, Emotion, and Deviance

Politics & Social Sciences

Bain, David

Corns, Jennifer

Philosophy

Routledge

In October 1983 a truck filled with explosives blew up in a Marine barracks in Beirut, killing 242 soldiers. SEMPER FI explores the aftermath of that terrorist attack on the Marine Lt Colonel who was in charge.“Every once in a while, a script comes along that’s so articulate, so well crafted, so free of cliches, you want to cry because they aren’t all like that. Michael Brady’s SEMPER FI is such a script …” —Mary Shen Barnidge, Chicago Reader“… Michael Brady’s fine new play SEMPER FI … a drama dealing with a Marine Lt Colonel caught between a rock and a hard place — he was put in charge of the Marine unit in Beirut right before it was bombed by the terrorist truck in 1983. Ironically, he had pleaded for tighter security before this happened, but was refused. Now it appears he’ll be the scapegoat. Brady creates characters you’ll really care about …” —Mary Ann Nichols, WCRB-FM“… blind faith is the subject of Michael Brady’s drama SEMPER FI, about the October 1983 bombing of the U S Embassy in Beirut … The play is the dramatic equivalent of the truck bomb that destroyed the embassy … The drama explodes with the emotional intensity of the event that took more than two hundred American lives …” —Alicia MacArthur, The Salem Evening News

Semper Fi

Dramas & Plays

Broadway Play Publishing, Incorporated

A grieving widower must accept his wife's death to save himself and his relationship with his daughter. David loves his wife, Gillian. Unfortunately, she died two years ago. David deals with his grief by continuing his romance with her “ghost” during walks on the beach at night. While David lives in the past, other family problems crop up in the present. Brother and sister-in-law Paul and Esther visit to try to help David's daughter, Rachel. She has lost her mother and needs her father to snap back into the real world for her sake.“… Though TO GILLIAN begins as a simple dramatization of its hero’s obsessive mourning, it gradually expands to become a richer form of family drama … [Mr Brady] writes with a rueful sophistication that keeps his story’s sentimentality at bay … TO GILLIAN is peppered with sharp, evenhanded observations about the tenuous ties that connect husbands and wives and parents and children … if TO GILLIAN is a play that sends a ghost flying out of [the] heavens, its appeal derives from its author’s keen sensitivity to life down here on earth.” —Frank Rich, The New York Times“This first major work by Michael Brady has well-dimensioned characters, solid conflict, piquant writing and gives off a warm, affirmative glow … When it has become not uncommon to encounter plays with no sympathetic characters, audiences will respond affectionately to everyone In GILLIAN. Working on a small canvas, the author is in impressive control of his material …” —Richard Hummler, Variety

To Gillian On Her 37th Birthday

How and why cross-country ski gear is constructed, and how each type affects a skier's performance.

Cross Country Ski Gear

Sports & Outdoors

Winter Sports

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Cross-country ski gear

Mountaineers Books, The

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