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Introduction to autonomous mobile robots
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2011
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Artificial IntelligenceEngineeringRobotic AgentField RoboticsIntelligent RoboticsIntelligent SystemsSecond EditionNew MaterialAutonomous Mobile RobotsSystems EngineeringMobile RoboticsRobot LearningKinematicsHumanoid RobotRobotics PerceptionComputer ScienceRobot ControlMotion PlanningAutomationAutonomous Intelligent SystemRobotics
Mobile robots span from Mars Pathfinder’s teleoperated Sojourner to cleaning robots in the Paris Metro, covering software, hardware, and algorithmic aspects, and this volume consolidates these topics into a textbook for beginners. The book aims to introduce students and readers to the fundamentals of mobile robotics across mechanical, motor, sensory, perceptual, and cognitive layers. It focuses on mobility, presenting locomotion, sensing, localization, and motion‑planning mechanisms, synthesizing concepts from kinematics, control theory, signal analysis, computer vision, information theory, AI, and probability, and organizing them into modular chapters from low‑ to high‑level details. Each chapter concludes with problem sets to reinforce learning.
Mobile robots range from the Mars Pathfinder mission's teleoperated Sojourner to the cleaning robots in the Paris Metro. This text offers students and other interested readers an introduction to the fundamentals of mobile robotics, spanning the mechanical, motor, sensory, perceptual, and cognitive layers the field comprises. The text focuses on mobility itself, offering an overview of the mechanisms that allow a mobile robot to move through a real world environment to perform its tasks, including locomotion, sensing, localization, and motion planning. It synthesizes material from such fields as kinematics, control theory, signal analysis, computer vision, information theory, artificial intelligence, and probability theory. The book presents the techniques and technology that enable mobility in a series of interacting modules. Each chapter treats a different aspect of mobility, as the book moves from low-level to high-level details. It covers all aspects of mobile robotics, including software and hardware design considerations, related technologies, and algorithmic techniques.] This second edition has been revised and updated throughout, with 130 pages of new material on such topics as locomotion, perception, localization, and planning and navigation. Problem sets have been added at the end of each chapter. Bringing together all aspects of mobile robotics into one volume, Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots can serve as a textbook or a working tool for beginning practitioners.