Control of Robot Manipulators in Joint Space

This complete textbook addresses robot control in depth, treating a range of model-based controllers in detail: proportional derivative; proportional integral derivative; computed torque and some adaptive variants. Other areas of study important to robotics, such as kinematics, receive attention within the case studies, based around a 2-degrees-of-freedom planar articulated arm used throughout to test the controllers under examination by experimentation. Auxiliary resources are available in the form of pdf projector presentations and a pdf solutions manual.