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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 -- Planning

• Movement of robots
• Robot motion

• Optimized resolved rate control of seven-degree-of-freedom Laboratory Telerobotic Manipulator (LTM) with application to three-dimensional graphics simulation (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of Management, Scientific and Technical Information Division ;, 1989), by L. Keith Barker, William S. McKinney, and Langley Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cable compliance (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of Management, Scientific and Technical Information Program, 1992), by J. Kerley and Goddard Space Flight Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Automated inspection of aircraft (Federal Aviation Administration, Office of Aviation Research ;, 1998), by C. J. Alberts, Carnegie-Mellon Institute of Research, and United States. Federal Aviation Administration. Office of Aviation Research (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)
• Teleoperators, man's machine partners (U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, Office of Information Services, 1972), by William R. Corliss and U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• Machine intelligence and robotics : report of the NASA Study Group : final report. (National Aeronautics and Space Administration], 1980), by NASA Study Group on Machine Intelligence and Robotics and United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (page images at HathiTrust)
• The treatise of al-Jazarī on automata; leaves from a manuscript of the Kitāb fī maʻarifat al-hiyal al handasiya in the Museum of fine arts. Boston, and elsewhere (Boston, 1924), by Ismā<il ibn al-Razzāz Jazarī and Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Machine intelligence and robotics : report of the NASA study group : final report. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1980), by NASA Study Group on Machine Intelligence and Robotics and United States. Office of Aeronautics and Space Technology (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Robotic applications in environmentally undesirable car maintenance operations (U.S. Department of Transportation, Urban Mass Transportation Administration, Office of Technical Assistance ;, 1986), by Dale M. Kay, United States. Urban Mass Transportation Administration. Office of Technical Assistance, and Long Island Rail Road. Industrial Engineering Department (page images at HathiTrust)
• De gli avtomati, ouero, Machine se moventi, libri duo (Appresso Girolamo Porro, 1589), by Hero of Alexandria and Bernardino Baldi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Edgar Allan Poe and Baron von Kempelen's chess-playing automaton. (International Brotherhood of Magicians, 1939), by Henry Ridgely Evans (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Wunder der Mechanik, oder, Beschreibung und Erklärung der berühmten Tendlerschen Figuren, der Vaucansonschen, Kempeleschen, Drozschen, Maillardetschen und anderer merkwürdiger Automaten und ähnlicher bewunderungswürdiger mechanischer Kunstwerke (C.F. Osiander, 1824), by Johann Heinrich Moritz von Poppe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Su gli automi de signori padre e figlio Droz, Elveti : e su due recentissimi effalmatori che ora viaggiar fannosi per Italia a pubblico-pressolata mostra sei dissertazione archeologica, con note critiche e spiegative (Dalla Tipografia Sormani, 1828), by Paolo Ricchini, Henri-Louis Jacquet Droz, and Pierre Jaquet-Droz (page images at HathiTrust)
• 3D sensor for adaptive suspension vehicle (Environmental Research Institute of Michigan, 1984), by David M. Zuk, Peter W. Van Atta, Mark L. Dell'Eva, United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and Environmental Research Institute of Michigan. Infrared and Optics Division (page images at HathiTrust)
• The construction of living robots (Edmund C. Berkeley & Associates, 1952), by Edmund Callis Berkeley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The history and analysis of the supposed automaton chess player of M. de Kempelen, now exhibiting in this country by Mr. Maelzel; with lithographic figures, illustrative of the probable method by which its motions are directed. (Hilliard, Gray, 1826), by Gamaliel Bradford (page images at HathiTrust)
• The logic of automata (Washington D. C. : Mathematics Division, Office of Scientific Research, U.S. Air Force, 1956., 1956), by Arthur W. Burks, Hao Wang, United States. Air Force. Office of Scientific Research, and University of Michigan. Engineering Research Institute (page images at HathiTrust)
• Automata Old and New, by Conrad William Cooke (Gutenberg ebook)

• Performance evaluation of programmable robots and manipulators : report of a workshop held at Annapolis, Maryland, October 23-25, 1975 (Washington : U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Bureau of Standards : for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1976), by Md.) Workshop on Performance Evaluation of Programmable Robots and Manipulators (1975 : Annapolis, Thomas B. Sheridan, Thomas B. Sheridan and Associates, and United States. National Bureau of Standards (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)
• An architecture for robot hierarchical control system (U. S. Dept. of Commerce, National Bureau of Standards : for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U. S. Govt. Print. Off., 1977), by Anthony J. Barbera (page images at HathiTrust)
• Optimized resolved rate control of seven-degree-of-freedom Laboratory Telerobotic Manipulator (LTM) with application to three-dimensional graphics simulation (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of Management, Scientific and Technical Information Division ;, 1989), by L. Keith Barker, William S. McKinney, and Langley Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Software architecture for a distributed real-time system in Ada, with application to telerobotics (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of Management, Scientific and Technical Information Program, 1992), by Douglas R. Olsen, Stephen Leake, Steve Messiora, and Goddard Space Flight Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kinematic rate control of simulated robot hand at or near wrist singularity (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Scientific and Technical Information Branch ;, 1985), by L. Keith Barker, Susan W. Carzoo, Jacob A. Houck, and Langley Research Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cable compliance (National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of Management, Scientific and Technical Information Program, 1992), by J. Kerley and Goddard Space Flight Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studies to design and develop improved remote manipulator systems (National Aeronautics and Space Administration ;, 1973), by J. W. Hill, A. J. Sword, Ames Research Center, and Stanford Research Institute (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)

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

• 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
• Horacio Kalibang, o , Los auto matas (El Album del Hogar, 1879), by Eduardo Ladislao Holmberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• He who served, by Ray Cummings, illust. by Alex Schomburg (Gutenberg ebook)
• My robot, by Henry Slesar (Gutenberg ebook)
• Reign of the telepuppets, by Daniel F. Galouye, illust. by Lloyd Birmingham (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Maugham Obsession, by August Derleth (Gutenberg ebook)
• The fastest draw, by Larry Eisenberg, illust. by George Schelling (Gutenberg ebook)
• Title fight, by William Campbell Gault (Gutenberg ebook)
• Mr. Replogle's dream, by Evelyn E. Smith (Gutenberg ebook)
• Ozymandias, by Ivar Jorgensen, illust. by Dan Adkins (Gutenberg ebook)
• After world's end, by Jack Williamson (Gutenberg ebook)
• Slave of eternity, by Roger D. Aycock, illust. by Paul Calle (Gutenberg ebook)
• Awakening, by Bryce Walton, illust. by Paul Orban (Gutenberg ebook)
• Robot nemesis, by E. E. Smith, illust. by Virgil Finlay (Gutenberg ebook)
• Let's Get Together, by Isaac Asimov, illust. by Robert Engle (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Obedient Servant, by S. M. Tenneshaw, illust. by W. E. Terry (Gutenberg ebook)
• Selling Point, by Norman Arkawy (Gutenberg ebook)
• Moonlight and Robots, by Jerry Dunham (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Cosmic Junkman, by Rog Phillips, illust. by W. E. Terry (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Weapon From Eternity, by Dwight V. Swain (Gutenberg ebook)
• Perfect Companion, by John McGreevey, illust. by Ramon Raymond (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Miserly Robot, by R. J. Rice, illust. by Becker (Gutenberg ebook)
• One for the Robot—Two for the Same, by Rog Phillips, illust. by Robert Fuqua (Gutenberg ebook)
• Bratton's Idea, by Manly Wade Wellman, illust. by John Giunta (Gutenberg ebook)
• Task of Tau, by J. Harvey Haggard, illust. by Hardison (Gutenberg ebook)
• Love Among the Robots, by Robert Emmett McDowell (Gutenberg ebook)
• In His Image, by Bryce Walton, illust. by Al McWilliams (Gutenberg ebook)
• Hagerty's Enzymes, by A. L. Haley, illust. by Joseph Eberle (Gutenberg ebook)
• Zurk, by Richard O. Lewis, illust. by Leo Morey (Gutenberg ebook)
• Robinc, by Anthony Boucher, illust. by Frank Kramer (Gutenberg ebook)
• Superjoemulloy, by Scott F. Grenville, illust. by Wallace Wood (Gutenberg ebook)
• Jingle in the Jungle, by Aldo Giunta (Gutenberg ebook)
• Your Servant, Sir, by Sol Boren, illust. by Paul Orban (Gutenberg ebook)
• Ely's Automatic Housemaid, by Elizabeth W. Bellamy (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Automatic Maid-of-All-Work: A Possible Tale of the Near Future, by M. L. Campbell (Gutenberg ebook)
• Lex, by W. T. Haggert, illust. by Wallace Wood (Gutenberg ebook)
• Prime Difference, by Alan Edward Nourse, illust. by John Schoenherr (Gutenberg ebook)
• Made to Measure, by William Campbell Gault, illust. by Lawrence Woromay (Gutenberg ebook)
• All Jackson's Children, by Daniel F. Galouye, illust. by Virgil Finlay (Gutenberg ebook)
• His Master's Voice, by Randall Garrett, illust. by Roy G. Krenkel (Gutenberg ebook)
• Backlash, by Winston K. Marks, illust. by Don Sibley (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Salesman, by Waldo T. Boyd (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Seventh Order, by Jerry Sohl, illust. by Ed Emshwiller (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Small World of M-75, by Ed M. Clinton, illust. by Ed Emshwiller (Gutenberg ebook)
• Second Variety, by Philip K. Dick, illust. by Alex Ebel (Gutenberg ebook)
• Robots of the World! Arise!, by Mari Wolf (Gutenberg ebook)
• B-12's Moon Glow, by Charles A. Stearns (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Real Hard Sell, by William W. Stuart (Gutenberg ebook)
• Service with a Smile, by Charles L. Fontenay, illust. by Paul Orban (Gutenberg ebook)
• Weak on Square Roots, by Russell Burton, illust. by Tom Beecham (Gutenberg ebook)
• Beside Still Waters, by Robert Sheckley, illust. by Virgil Finlay (Gutenberg ebook)
• There Will Be School Tomorrow, by V. E. Thiessen (Gutenberg ebook)
• Benefactor, by George H. Smith (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Love of Frank Nineteen, by David C. Knight (Gutenberg ebook)
• Survival Tactics, by Al Sevcik, illust. by Irving H. Novick (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Spaceship Named McGuire, by Randall Garrett, illust. by Douglas (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Stutterer, by Reuben Merliss (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Ultimate Experiment, by Thornton DeKy (Gutenberg ebook)

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