This book is intended to be a robotics textbook with an extension to digital
human modeling and MATLABTM programming for both senior undergraduate
and graduate engineering students. It can also be a research book for
researchers, scientists, and engineers to learn and review the fundamentals
of robotic systems as well as the basic methods of digital human modeling
and motion generation. In the past decade, I wrote and annually updated
two lecture notes: Robotic Kinematics, Dynamics and Control, and Modern
Theories of Nonlinear Systems and Control. Those lecture notes were successfully
adopted by myself as the official textbooks for my dual-level robotics
course and graduate-level nonlinear control systems course in the School of
Engineering and Computer Science, Oakland University. Now, the major subjects
of those two lecture notes are systematically mixed together and further
extended by adding more topics, theories and applications, as well as more
examples and MATLABTM programs to form the first part of the book.