Modern Robotics - Mechanics, Planning, and Control - Grand Format

Kevin M. Lynch received his B.S.E. in electrical engineering from Princeton in 1989, and PhD in robotics from Carnegie Mellon University in 1996. He has been a faculty member at Northwestern University since 1997 and has held visiting positions at Caltech, CMU, Tsukuba University and Northeastern University in Shenyang, China. His research focuses on dynamics, motion planning, and control for robot manipulation and locomotion ; self-organizing multi-agent systems ; and physically interacting human-robot systems.
A Fellow of the IEEE, he also was the recipient of the IEEE Early Career Award in Robotics and Automation, Northwestern's Professorship of Teaching Excellence, and the Northwestern Teacher of the Year award in engineering. Currently he is Senior Editor of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, and the Incoming Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. This is his third book.
Frank C. Park received his B.S. in electrical engineering from MIT in 1985, and Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Harvard University in 1991. He has been on the faculty at UC Irvine, and since 1995 he has been professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Seoul National University. His research interests are in robot mechanics, planning and control, vision and image processing, and related areas of applied mathematics.
He has been an IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Distinguished Lecturer, and has held adjunct faculty positions at the NYU Courant Institute, the Interactive Computing Department at Georgia Tech, and the HKUST Robotics Institute. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics, and developer of the EDX course Robot