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From: marchand@llano.jsc.nasa.gov (brian marchand)
Subject: Re: Wanted: Transformations book
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Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1993 13:31:52 GMT
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In article <20nkjt$nei@hpchase.rose.hp.com>, eperez@hpprdeb.prd.hp.com (Edgar Perez) writes:
|> 	I'm looking for a robotic book that explains the coordinate system
|> transformations. The book should be for a robotic novice. I'm not taking
|> any robotic course, so the book should be as self-explanatory as posible.
|> 
|> I looked at the FAQ, but didn't saw anything.
|> 
|> Thanks,
|> Edgar Perez
|> eperez@hpprdos.prd
|> 

-- 
 A couple of good popular introduction books that I have used are:

 "Introduction to Robotics Mechanics and Control" by John J. Craig
  1986 Addison-Wesley

Also:

 "Robot Manipulators: Mathematics, Programming, and Control" by Richard P. Paul
  1984 MIT Press

These may or may not have more recent releases but both are pretty good in
explaining coordinate transformations.  They concentrate on homogeneous 
transforms but the basics are easy to extract.

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