Siegwart, Roland creator Nourbakhsh, Illah Reza 1970- Scaramuzza, Davide text bibliography mau Cambridge, Mass MIT Press c2011 2011 2nd ed monographic eng

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xvi, 453 p. : ill. ; 24 cm 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.--publisher description Roland Siegwart, Illah R. Nourbakhsh, and Davide Scaramuzza Includes bibliographical references (p. [425]-445) and index Mobile robots Autonomous robots 621.3981 SRA 9780262015356 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0262015358 (hardcover : alk. paper) 2010028053 DLC 100719 20220314164241.0 649700153 eng