Now in its third edition, this textbook is a comprehensive introduction to the multidisciplinary field of mobile robotics, which lies at the intersection of artificial intelligence, computational vision, and traditional robotics. Written for advanced undergraduates and graduate students in computer science and engineering, the book covers algorithms for a range of strategies for locomotion, sensing, and reasoning. The new edition includes recent advances in robotics and intelligent machines, including coverage of human-robot interaction, robot ethics, and the application of advanced AI techniques to end-to-end robot control and specific computational tasks. This book also provides support for a number of algorithms using ROS 2, and includes a review of critical mathematical material and an extensive list of sample problems. Researchers as well as students in the field of mobile robotics will appreciate this comprehensive treatment of state-of-the-art methods and key technologies.
Acknowledgments; Preface; 1. Overview and motivation; 2. Fundamental problems; Part I. Locomotion and Perception: 3. Mobile robot hardware; 4. Non-visual sensors and algorithms; 5. Visual sensors and algorithms; Part II. Representation and Planning: 6. Deep learning for robots; 7. Planning in, representing and reasoning about space; 8. System control; 9. Pose maintenance and localization; 10. Mapping and related tasks; 11. Robot collectives; 12. Human-robot interaction; 13. Robot ethics; 14. Robots in practice; 15. The future of mobile robotics; Appendix A. Fictional robots; Appendix B. Probability and statistics; Appendix C. Linear systems, matrices and filtering; Appendix D. Markov models; Bibliography; Index.
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