Robotics Simplified: An Illustrative Guide to Learn Fundamentals of Robotics, Including Kinematics, Motion Control, and Trajectory Planning (English Edition)

It reads like cliff or lecture notes. It jumps from topic to topic with inconsistent repetitions. The language is badly written which makes it hard to read. The authors could have used an editor. Believe the other reviews when they say this book is off. Save your money and buy a more standard text instead. The only saving grace is that it is cheaper than other robotics texts and does cover a lot of the topics needed for a basic robotics text

This book would more accurately be titled “20th Century Industrial Robotics Simplified.” It focuses nearly exclusively on fixed base industrial robots. There are just a few pages about mobile robots, but nothing about key mobile technologies like the SLAM algorithm, the dynamics of legged robots, or autonomous submarine or airborne robots, and nothing about hobby robotics technology like ROS. The programming languages mentioned range from WAVE created in 1973 through AML developed in 1983. Despite a “What you will learn” claim indicating that the reader will “learn robot programming using C, Python, and VAL,” there is a scant 2½ pages that even mention C or Python, with about 10 lines of code in each language, focusing on VAL commands rather than any of the available Python or C libraries supporting robotics. Finally, for American readers, the book would have benefited from editing by someone whose primary language is American English. There are many instances of phrasing in English dialect from the Indian subcontinent that will seem awkward or ungrammatical from an American English perspective.

a terrible book full of useless information.

It’s thorough. certainly NOT one-sided. The book elaborates on various topics any roboticist would be interested in (one in particular is robotic kinematics) actuations, amounts of N axis’s, prismatic joints, the yaw, roll and pitch of end effectors (meaning the overall dexterity of the last integer axis’s, hence the gripping mechanisms that can very from pneumatic actuation, servo, step motor or etc). Cartesian, articulated cylindrical and anthropomorphic robotic configurations are discussed as well their workspace in which the degree of their sphere’s envelope (meaning the overall circumference of the dedicated workspace in which the robot can operate) as well the extent each needs dedicated controllers, velocities of operations, payload abilities, and mechanical component degradations of each are mentioned. Though I just got the book today it’s very interesting.

Very nice book.

Topics are great but it is hard to read due to bad translation.