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Robots -- Motion

Here are entered works that discuss the movements of robots and their component parts in general. Works that discuss the motion of robots in relation to the forces affecting them are entered under Robots -- Dynamics.

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• Robots
• Motion
• Robots -- Dynamics

• Robots -- Motion -- Planning

• Movement of robots
• Robot motion

• Planning Algorithms (free online edition, c2006), by Steven Michael LaValle (illustrated HTML and PDF files with commentary at lavalle.pl)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Automata Old and New (London: Imp. at the Chiswick press, 1893), by Conrad William Cooke (page images at HathiTrust)

• Where Am I? Systems and Methods for Mobile Robot Positioning (electronic version of "Navigating Mobile Robots"), by Johann Borenstein, H. R. Everett, and Liqiang Feng (PDF at Michigan)

• From Bricks to Brains: The Embodied Cognitive Science of LEGO Robots (Edmonton: AU Press, c2010), by Michael Robert William Dawson, Brian Dupuis, and Michael Wilson (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• R. U. R., by Karel Čapek (multiple editions)

• The Electric Man: Being the One Act Version of the Successful Three Act Farcical Comedy of the Same Name (New York and London: Samuel French, c1910), by Charles Hannan
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Mechanical Jane: A Play In One Act for Three Ladies (New York and London: Samuel French, c1910), by M. E. Barber (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Modus Operandi, or, The Automaton Chess-Player: A Play in Three Acts, With Prefatory Remarks, and Extracts From Original Letters on De Kempelin's Automaton Chess-Player, Published in 1784 (London: T. H. Lacy, 1866), by J. Walker, contrib. by Karl Gottlieb Windisch (page images at HathiTrust)

• From Bricks to Brains: The Embodied Cognitive Science of LEGO Robots (Edmonton: AU Press, c2010), by Michael Robert William Dawson, Brian Dupuis, and Michael Wilson (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• Old Soldiers (included on a Baen CD image; c2005), by David Weber
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 183 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 185 MB
• Slaves to the Metal Horde (as published under Milton Lesser pseudonym in Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy, 1954), by Stephen Marlowe, illust. by W. E. Terry (Gutenberg text)
• The Huge Hunter: or, The Steam Man of the Prairies, by Edward Sylvester Ellis (Gutenberg text)
• Virtual Danger, by Teel McClanahan (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Defenders (as published in Galaxy Science Fiction, January 1953), by Philip K. Dick, illust. by Ed Emshwiller (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Bolo! (included on a CD image), by David Weber, contrib. by Keith Laumer
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 151 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 152 MB

• Simulant Portrait (1990), by Johanna Drucker (page images with commentary at artistsbooksonline.org)
• The Memory of Mars (as published in Amazing Stories, December 1961), by Raymond F. Jones, illust. by Virgil Finlay (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Ware Tetralogy (consisting of Software, Wetware, Freeware, and Realware; Creative Commons edition, 2010), by Rudy v. B. Rucker (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Sugar the Robot and the Race to Save the Earth (c2013), by Ryan Cartwright (multiple formats with commentary at Crimper Books)
• Do Not Feed the Troll! (c2014), by Ryan Cartwright (multiple formats with commentary at Crimper Books)
• The Wonderful Electric Elephant (Akron, OH et al.: Saalfield Pub. Co., 1927), by Frances Trego Montgomery, illust. by C. M. Coolidge (page images at HathiTrust)

• From Bricks to Brains: The Embodied Cognitive Science of LEGO Robots (Edmonton: AU Press, c2010), by Michael Robert William Dawson, Brian Dupuis, and Michael Wilson (PDF with commentary at AU Press)
• Squeak: Learn Programming with Robots (c2005), by Stéphane Ducasse (PDF in France)

• An Attempt to Analyse the Automaton Chess Player, of Mr. de Kempelen: With an Easy Method of Imitating the Movements of that Celebrated Figure, Illustrated by Original Original Drawings; To Which is Added, A Copious Collection of the Knight's Moves Over the Chess Board (London: Printed for J. Booth, 1821), by Robert Willis
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Letters of Charles Gottlieb de Windisch on the Automaton Chess-Player of Mr. de Kempelen: A Free Translation From the German (London: Printed by R. Brown, 1819), by Karl Gottlieb Windisch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations on the Automaton Chess Player, Now Exhibited in London, at 4, Spring Gardens (London: J. Hatchard, 1819), by Oxford graduate
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • Gutenberg text
• Chess: A Selection of Fifty Games, From Those Played by the Automaton Chess-Player, During Its Exhibition in London, in 1820 (London: W. Pople, printer, 1820), ed. by W. Hunneman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ueber den Schachspieler des Herrn von Kempelen und Dessen Nachbildung (in German; Leipzig and Dresden: J. G. I. Breitkopf, 1789), by Joseph Friedrich Racknitz (page images at HathiTrust)

• Losing Humanity: The Case Against Killer Robots (New York: Human Rights Watch, 2012), by Bonnie Lynn Docherty (HTML and PDF with commentary at hrw.org)

• Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems (partial serial archives)

• Losing Humanity: The Case Against Killer Robots (New York: Human Rights Watch, 2012), by Bonnie Lynn Docherty (HTML and PDF with commentary at hrw.org)

• Where Am I? Systems and Methods for Mobile Robot Positioning (electronic version of "Navigating Mobile Robots"), by Johann Borenstein, H. R. Everett, and Liqiang Feng (PDF at Michigan)

• Ueber den Schachspieler des Herrn von Kempelen und Dessen Nachbildung (in German; Leipzig and Dresden: J. G. I. Breitkopf, 1789), by Joseph Friedrich Racknitz (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Neglected Facts of Science (for chapter 2, readers may need to click back from chapter 3; Portland, OR: North Pacific Publishers, 1982), by Dewey B. Larson (HTML with commentary at reciprocalsystem.com)
• Matter and Motion (London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1920), by James Clerk Maxwell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Theory of the Relativity of Motion, by Richard C. Tolman (page images at Cornell)

• Motion, Control, and Geometry: Proceedings of a Symposium (1997), by National Research Council Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Tractatus de Successivis, Attributed to William Ockham, Edited with a Study on the Life and Works of Ockham (Franciscan Institute Publications #1; Tractatus in Latin and commentary in English; St. Bonaventure, NY: St. Bonaventure College, 1944), ed. by Philotheus Boehner, contrib. by William of Ockham (page images at HathiTrust)

• Russian Verbs of Motion: Going, Carrying, Leading (second edition; New York: King's Crown Press, 1951), by Leon Stilman (page images at HathiTrust)

• The 3-j and 6-j Symbols (Cambridge, MA: Technology Press, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1959), by Manuel Rotenberg, R. Bivins, N. Metropolis, and John K. Wooten (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elementary Theory of Angular Momentum (New York and London: J. Wiley and Sons, c1957), by Morris Edgar Rose (page images at HathiTrust)
• Spectroscopic Coefficients for the p^n, d^n, and f^n Configurations (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c1963), by C. W. Nielson and George F. Koster (page images at HathiTrust)

• Principles of Charged Particle Acceleration, by Stanley Humphries (PDF files at UNM)

• Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements (20th edition; New York: Brown and Seward, 1903), by Henry T. Brown (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements (online animated edition, based on the 21st edition of 1908), by Henry T. Brown, contrib. by Matt Keveney (Javascript-dependent HTML and images at 507movements.com)

• Introduction to Kinesics (An Annotation System for Analysis of Body Motion and Gesture) (Washington: Dept. of State, Foreign Service Institute, 1952), by Ray L. Birdwhistell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studies in Expressive Movement; With a Chapter on Matching Sketches of Personality with Script (New York: Macmillan, 1933), by Gordon W. Allport, Philip E. Vernon, and Edwin Powers (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Budget of Paradoxes (second edition, two volumes: Chicago et al: Open Court, 1915), by Augustus De Morgan, ed. by David Eugene Smith, contrib. by Sophia Elizabeth De Morgan
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• A Budget of Paradoxes: Reprinted, With the Author's Additions, From the "Athenaeum" (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1872), by Augustus De Morgan, ed. by Sophia Elizabeth De Morgan (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Swirling Flows and Flames (2019), ed. by Toufik Boushaki (illustrated HTML with commentary at intechnopen.com)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.