Ebook: Mobile Robotics: A Practical Introduction

Mobile Robotics: A Practical Introduction is an excellent introduction to the foundations and methods used for designing completely autonomous mobile robots. In this book you are introduced to the fundamental concepts of this complex field via twelve detailed case studies which show how to build and program real working robots. This book provides a very practical introduction to mobile robotics for a general scientific audience, and is essential reading for final year undergraduate students and postgraduate students studying Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science and Robot Engineering. Its update and overview of core concepts in mobile robotics will assist and encourage practitioners of the field, and set challenges to explore new avenues of research in this exciting field.

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Mobile Robotics: A Practical Introduction is an excellent introduction to the foundations and methods used for designing completely autonomous mobile robots. In this book you are introduced to the fundamental concepts of this complex field via twelve detailed case studies which show how to build and program real working robots. This book provides a very practical introduction to mobile robotics for a general scientific audience, and is essential reading for final year undergraduate students and postgraduate students studying Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science and Robot Engineering. Its update and overview of core concepts in mobile robotics will assist and encourage practitioners of the field, and set challenges to explore new avenues of research in this exciting field.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-5
Foundations....Pages 7-22
Robot Hardware....Pages 23-42
Robot Learning: Making Sense of Raw Sensor Data....Pages 43-85
Navigation....Pages 87-151
Simulation: Modelling Robot-Environment Interaction....Pages 153-166
Analysis of Robot Behaviour....Pages 167-211
Outlook....Pages 213-217
Answers to Exercises....Pages 219-226
Back Matter....Pages 227-243

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Mobile Robotics: A Practical Introduction is an excellent introduction to the foundations and methods used for designing completely autonomous mobile robots. In this book you are introduced to the fundamental concepts of this complex field via twelve detailed case studies which show how to build and program real working robots. This book provides a very practical introduction to mobile robotics for a general scientific audience, and is essential reading for final year undergraduate students and postgraduate students studying Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science and Robot Engineering. Its update and overview of core concepts in mobile robotics will assist and encourage practitioners of the field, and set challenges to explore new avenues of research in this exciting field.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-5
Foundations....Pages 7-22
Robot Hardware....Pages 23-42
Robot Learning: Making Sense of Raw Sensor Data....Pages 43-85
Navigation....Pages 87-151
Simulation: Modelling Robot-Environment Interaction....Pages 153-166
Analysis of Robot Behaviour....Pages 167-211
Outlook....Pages 213-217
Answers to Exercises....Pages 219-226
Back Matter....Pages 227-243
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