Acknowledgements
The authors acknowledge the support of the Quality Improvement Program (QIP) at the Indian
Institute of Technology, Kanpur for the preparation of this manuscript.
The design in Chapter 8 is attributed to three undergraduate students, Sandeep Urankar, Anurag
Singh and Pranjal Jain who have accomplished their B. Tech project on Robosloth in 2002. G.S.
Sharavanan Kumar, a Ph.D. student at IIT Kanpur has contributed Chapters 9 and 10. Other graduate
students, particularly, Anupam Agarwal, Rajat Saxena and Manak Lal Jain have contributed in
creating the figures and examples for some chapters. The authors also acknowledge the assignment
contributions and assistance of their students in the CAD-2002(II) and 2003(I) classes, particularly,
Abhishek Gupta, Anurag Tripathy, Rajkumar Singh, Gaurav Dubey, Shubham Saxena, Abhishek
Luthra, Pritam Chakraborty, T.S. Sudhish Kumar and Prince Malik.