No other text I have seen offer a more complete picture of modern robotic manipulation and robot control. " - Bradley Bishop, United States Naval Academy Based on the highly successful classic, Robot Dynamics and Control, by Spong and Vidyasagar (Wiley, 1989), Robot Modeling and Control offers the introduction of fully up-to-date, independent to the field. The text presents the raw materials and advanced in a style easily readable and mathematically rigorous as well. Key Features * A step-by-step computational approach to helping you get and calculate the forward kinematics, inverse kinematics, and Jacobians for the most common robot designs. * Detailed coverage of vision and visual servo control enables you to program robots to manipulate objects that are read by the camera. * A chapter on the dynamics of preparing you to calculate the dynamics of the most common manipulator designs. * The most common motion planning and trajectory generation algorithms are presented with the basic style. * A comprehensive treatment of motion and force control includes both basic and advanced methods. * Text Treatment of geometric nonlinear control is easier to read than text that is more advanced. * Examples of work many and long list of problems illustrate all aspects of the theory. About the author Mark W. Spong is the 2005 President of the IEEE Control Systems Society and past Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions Control Systems Technology. Seth Hutchinson is currently a Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and senior editor of IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation. He has published many books on the topic of robotics and computer vision. Mathukumalli Vidyasagar is currently Executive Vice President responsible for Advanced Technology at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India's largest IT companies.