Computational Principles of Mobile Robotics

This advanced undergraduate/graduate text emphasizes computation and algorithms for locomotion, sensing, and reasoning in mobile robots. Concentrating on wheeled and legged systems, the book also considers other propulsion strategies. It presents advances over the ten years prior to publication, additional mathematical background, and extensive sample problems.

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This textbook for advanced undergraduates and graduate students emphasizes algorithms for a range of strategies for locomotion, sensing, and reasoning. It concentrates on wheeled and legged mobile robots but discusses a variety of other propulsion systems. This edition includes advances in robotics and intelligent machines over the ten years prior to publication, including significant coverage of SLAM (simultaneous localization and mapping) and multi-robot systems. It includes additional mathematical background and an extensive list of sample problems. Various mathematical techniques that were assumed in the first edition are now briefly introduced in appendices at the end of the text to make the book more self-contained. 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.