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Mechanism Design for Robotic Systems
- 1st Edition - December 1, 2025
- Authors: Marco Ceccarelli, Matteo Russo
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 4 1 1 0 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 4 1 1 1 - 9
Mechanism Design for Robotic Systems provides theoretical fundamentals, procedures, and an outline of potential solutions for mechanism design applied to robotic systems, filling t… Read more
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Request a sales quoteMechanism Design for Robotic Systems provides theoretical fundamentals, procedures, and an outline of potential solutions for mechanism design applied to robotic systems, filling the gap from conceptual design to robot manufacturing, with both theoretical background and practical suggestions for solutions to achieve a functional robot from scratch. This book is a helpful resource for roboticists and researchers who need to design a new robot from the ground up, and to analyze existing solutions, providing tools and methods to identify optimal architecture, hardware, and design tips according to different methods.
In addition, the book can be a reference for formation of robot designers as used in university teaching and professional specialization.
- Identifies the main requirements, challenges, and solutions behind robotic applications
- Provides knowledge on design to robotics researchers and professionals with a limited or no mechanical engineering background
- Presents robotics-oriented mechanism science, discussion of robotic applications, and methods for mechanical design of robotic structures
Graduate students (both master and doctoral students), researchers and academics in biomedical engineering, mechanical engineering, mechatronics engineering, control engineering, and robotics.
Professionals in robotics, mechanical engineering, mechatronics, Graduate students (both master and doctoral students), researchers and academics in computer science, AI and machine learning.
1. Historical background
2. Fundamentals and requirements
Rigid body mechanics
Position and orientation
Rigid body motion
Mechanisms
Joints
Degrees of freedom
Kinematics
Forward kinematics
Inverse kinematics
Dynamics
Mechanism components
Actuators
Mechanical joints
Transmission elements
Flexible elements
3. Robot architectures
Manipulators
Serial manipulators
Parallel manipulators
Grippers and robot hands
Mobile robots
Limbed robots
Humanoid robots
Wheeled robots
Other mobile robots
Exoskeletons
4. Industrial robots
Industrial applications and requirements
Classification of industrial robots
Examples
5. Service robots
Service applications and requirements
Classification of service robots
Examples
6. Medical devices
Medical applications and requirements
Classification of medical robots
Examples
7. Future challenges
Industrial robots
Service robots
Medical robots
8. Conclusions
References
Biographical notes
2. Fundamentals and requirements
Rigid body mechanics
Position and orientation
Rigid body motion
Mechanisms
Joints
Degrees of freedom
Kinematics
Forward kinematics
Inverse kinematics
Dynamics
Mechanism components
Actuators
Mechanical joints
Transmission elements
Flexible elements
3. Robot architectures
Manipulators
Serial manipulators
Parallel manipulators
Grippers and robot hands
Mobile robots
Limbed robots
Humanoid robots
Wheeled robots
Other mobile robots
Exoskeletons
4. Industrial robots
Industrial applications and requirements
Classification of industrial robots
Examples
5. Service robots
Service applications and requirements
Classification of service robots
Examples
6. Medical devices
Medical applications and requirements
Classification of medical robots
Examples
7. Future challenges
Industrial robots
Service robots
Medical robots
8. Conclusions
References
Biographical notes
- No. of pages: 250
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: December 1, 2025
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443141102
- eBook ISBN: 9780443141119
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Marco Ceccarelli
Marco Ceccarelli is a professor of Mechanics of Machines at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy, where he chairs LARM2: Laboratory of Robot Mechatronics. His research interests are in robot design, mechanism kinematics, experimental mechanics with special attention to parallel kinematics machines, service robotic devices, mechanism design, and history of machines and mechanisms. He is an ASME fellow. Professor Ceccarelli serves in several Journal editorial boards and conference scientific committees, and is editor of the Springer book series on Mechanism and Machine Science (MMS) and History of MMS. Professor Ceccarelli has been the President of IFToMM, the International Federation for the Promotion of MMS in 2008-11 and 2016-19. He has started several IFToMM sponsored conferences including (HMM) Symposium on History of Machines and Mechanisms, MEDER (Mechanism Design for Robotics) and MUSME (Multibody Systems and Mechatronics).
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, LARM2: Laboratory of Robot Mechatronics, Dept of Industrial Engineering., University of Rome Tor Vergata, ItalyMR
Matteo Russo
Matteo Russo is an assistant professor at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, in Italy. His main research interests are continuum robots, mechanism design, robot kinematics, and parallel manipulators. He was a visiting researcher at RWTH Aachen University, Germany, at University of the Basque Country, Spain, and at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, in 2015, 2016 and 2017, respectively. From 2019 to 2022, he has been a Research Fellow at the Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre in Manufacturing and On-Wing Technology, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom, where he worked on maintenance robotics for the aerospace and nuclear industry. His awards and honours include the IFToMM Young Delegate Program Award and several best paper awards at international conferences. He is a member of IEEE and IFToMM Italy.
Affiliations and expertise
LARM2: Laboratory of Robot Mechatronics Dept of Industrial Engineering. University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy