Ulrich Nehmzow

Mobile Robotics

A Practical Introduction

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Produktbeschreibung

Mobile Robotics: A Practical Introduction (2nd edition) is an excellentintroduction to the foundations and methods used for designing completelyautonomous mobile robots.A fascinating, cutting-edge, research topic, autonomous mobile robotics isnow taught in more and more universities. In this book you are introducedto the fundamental concepts of this complex field via twelve detailed casestudies that show how to build and program real working robots.Topics covered in clued learning, autonomous navigation in unmodified,noisy and unpredictable environments, and high fidelity robot simulation.This new edition has been updated to include a new chapter on noveltydetection, and provides a very practical introduction to mobile roboticsfor a general scientific audience. It is essential reading for 2nd and3rd year undergraduate students and postgraduate students studyingrobotics, artificial intelligence, cognitive science and robotengineering. The update and overview of core concepts inmobile roboticswill assist and encourage practitioners of the field and set challenges toexplore new avenues of research in this exiting field.The author is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Computer Science at theUniversity of Essex."A very fine overview over the relevant problems to be solved in theattempt to bring intelligence to a moving vehicle."Professor Dr. Ewald von Puttkamer, University of Kaiserslautern"Case studies show ways of achieving an impressive repertoire of kinds oflearned behaviour, navigation and map-building. The book is an admirableintroduction to this modern approach to mobile robotics and certainlygives a great deal of food for thought. This is an important andthough-provoking book."Alex M. Andrew in Kybernetes Vol 29 No 4 and Robotica Vol 18

Produktdetails

• Applied Computing
• Verlag: Springer / Springer London / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-85233-726-1
• 2nd ed.
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juli 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 542g
• ISBN-13: 9781852337261
• ISBN-10: 1852337265
• Artikelnr.: 08534368

Autorenporträt

Ulrich Nehmzow, The University of Essex, Colchester, UK

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction.- 2 Foundations.- 2.1 Definitions.- 2.2 Applications of Mobile Robots.- 2.3 History of Mobile Robotics: Early Implementations.- 2.4 History of Mobile Robotics: Control Paradigms.- 2.5 Further Reading.- 3 Robot Hardware.- 3.1 Introduction.- 3.2 Robot Sensors.- 3.3 Robot Actuators.- 3.4 Example: The Mobile Robot FortyTwo.- 3.5 The Need for Sensor Signal Interpretation.- 3.6 Further Reading.- 4 Robot Learning: Making Sense of Raw Sensor Data.- 4.1 Introduction.- 4.2 Learning Methods in Detail.- 4.3 Further Reading on Learning Methods.- 4.4 Case Studies of Learning Robots.- 4.5 Exercise: A Target-Following, Obstacle-Avoiding Robot.- 5 Navigation.- 5.1 Principles of Navigation.- 5.2 Fundamental Navigation Strategies of Animals and Humans.- 5.3 Robot Navigation.- 5.4 Case Studies of Navigating Robots.- 6 Novelty Detection.- 6.1 Motivation.- 6.2 Approaches to Novelty Detection.- 6.3 Case Study on Novelty Detection.- 6.4 Summary.- 7 Simulation: Modelling Robot-Environment Interaction.- 7.1 Motivation.- 7.2 Fundamentals of Computer Simulation.- 7.3 Alternatives to Numerical Models.- 7.4 Case Study on Simulation of Robot-Environment Interaction.- 8 Analysis of Robot Behaviour.- 8.1 Motivation.- 8.2 Statistical Analysis of Robot Behaviour.- 8.3 Case Studies of Performance Evaluation and Analysis.- 8.4 Summary.- 9 Outlook.- 9.1 Achievements.- 9.2 Reasons for Success.- 9.3 Challenges.- 9.4 The Beginning.- 9.5 Further Reading.- Answers to Exercises.- List of Exercises and Case Studies.- References.

Rezensionen

From the reviews of the second edition:

"The book is an admirable introduction to its modern approach to mobile robotics and certainly gives a great deal of food for thought. ... Like its first edition, this is an important and thought-provoking book." (Alex M. Andrew, Robotica, Vol. 22 (347), 2004)

"Mobile Robotics: A Practical Introduction (2nd edition) is an excellent introduction to the foundations and methods used for designing completely autonomous mobile robots. ... provides a very practical introduction to mobile robotics for a general scientific audience. It is essential reading for 2nd and 3rd year undergraduate students and postgraduate students studying robotics, artificial intelligence, cognitive science and robot engineering. ... is an admirable introduction to this modern approach to mobile robotics and certainly gives a great deal of food for thought." (Alex M. Andrew, Artificial Life & Robotics, Vol. 7 (4), 2004)