Ebook: Robot Intelligence: An Advanced Knowledge Processing Approach

Robot Intelligence is an exciting interdisciplinary field including engineering, information technology, machine learning, biological science and psychology. Its dramatic growth in practical applications is driven by both real-world requirements and maturity of related disciplines such as intelligent algorithms. It is expected that perception, understanding and reasoning capabilities play a crucial role in robot-assisted tasks and enable robots to exhibit similar performance on executing various tasks in both constrained and unconstrained environments.

Robot Intelligence is a rare collection of chapters reflecting recent robotics developments from the advanced knowledge processing perspective. It also provides a comprehensive introduction and methodology to selected robotics topics including human robot interaction, human motion analysis, robot vision and advanced control. The robot intelligence methods presented enable readers to address many complex problems involving a wide range of robot sensors for the perception and understanding of the environment and the reasoning of the subsequent actions. The book’s comprehensive coverage will prove invaluable to senior undergraduates, PhD students, researchers and practitioners.

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Robot intelligence has become a major focus of intelligent robotics. Recent innovation in computational intelligence including fuzzy learning, neural networks, evolutionary computation and classical Artificial Intelligence provides sufficient theoretical and experimental foundations for enabling robots to undertake a variety of tasks with reasonable performance. This book reflects the recent advances in the field from an advanced knowledge processing perspective; there have been attempts to solve knowledge based information explosion constraints by integrating computational intelligence in the robotics context.