Electromechanics and Robotics

Part 1: Robotics and Automation.- Chapter 1. Analysis of Mechanisms with Parallel-Serial Structure 5-DOF and Extended Working Area.- Chapter 2. Studying of Copying Control System with Nonlinear Measurer.- Chapter 3. Determination of Special Positions for Solving the Problem of Joint Relative Manipulation Mechanisms Kinematic Control.- Chapter 4. Kinematic Modeling in Study of Manipulative Mechanism of Combined Movement.- Chapter 5. Simulation of Static Walking in an Exoskeleton.- Chapter 6. Algorithm for Controlling Manipulator with Combined Array of Pressure and Proximity Sensors in Gripper.- Chapter 7. Simulation of Underwater Robot Autonomous Motion along Predetermined Straight Path.- Chapter 8. In-Pipe Modular Robot: Configuration, Displacement Principles, Standard Patterns and Modeling.- Chapter 9. Multi-criteria Optimization of the Mobile Robot Group Strategy Using the Ant Algorithm.- Chapter 10. Analysis of the Allocation and Implementation of Tasks in the Heterogeneous Team ofthe Collaborative Robotic System.- Chapter 11. Algorithm of Target Point Assignment for Robot Path Planning Based on Costmap Data.- Chapter 12. Feasibility of Synthesized Optimal Control Approach on a Model of Robotic System with Uncertainties.- Chapter 13. Algorithm for Calculating Coordinates of Repeaters for Combining Stationary and Mobile Devices into Common Cyber-Physical System.- Chapter 14. Simulation of Trainable Control System for Quadruped Robot.- Chapter 15. Hardware/Software Architecture for Research of Control Algorithms of a Quadcopter in the Presence of External Wind Loads.

Prof. Andrey Ronzhin is Director of St. Petersburg Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SP RAS) and Head of the Department of Electromechanics and Robotics Systems at St. Petersburg University of Airspace Instrumentation. His research focuses on interaction of autonomous robotic systems and users in a cyber-physical environment. He is a member of Scientific Board of Robotics and Mechatronics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Academy of Navigation and Motion Control, Co-Chairman of International Conference Interactive Collaborative Robotics (ICR). He is Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Journal "Informatics and Automation".

 

Prof. Vladislav Shishlakov is Vice-Rector for Educational Technologies and Innovative Activities, St. Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation (SUAI) and Head of the Department of Management in Technical Systems. He is Honorary Worker at the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation since 2009. His research interests are related to development of methods of synthesis of nonlinear systems of automatic control systems, which are continuous, and with different types of signal modulation, as well as the development and research of electromechanical and electric power systems and complexes based on the effects of high-temperature superconductivity.