Flexible Robot Manipulators: Modelling, Simulation And Control (Control Engineering Series, Band 68) - Hardcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

M. Osman Tokhi obtained his B.Sc. (Electrical Engineering) from Kabul University, Afghanistan in 1978 and Ph.D. from Heriot-Watt University, UK in 1988. He has held academic positions at universities in Afghanistan and the UK, and has also worked for industry. He is currently Reader of Systems and Control at the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield, UK. His research interests include active control of noise and vibration, intelligent/adaptive control, soft-computing modelling and control of dynamic systems, and biomedical applications of robotics and control. He has published extensive research articles and textbooks in these areas.

Abul K.M. Azad is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Technology, Northern Illinois University, USA. He obtained his Ph.D. in 1994 from the University of Sheffield, UK, and subsequently worked at the Universities of Sheffield and Portsmouth in various capacities. His research and teaching interests are in flexible manipulators, real-time computer control, mechatronics, Internet-based physical experiments, adaptive/intelligent control and mobile robotics. He has active membership of and involvement in several learned societies including the IET, IEEE, ASEE, ISA and CLAWAR, and is an IEEE nominated evaluator for the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology, USA.