Autonomous Mobile Robots

Rahul Kala is an assistant professor at the Centre of Intelligent Robotics, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad, India, where he received his B.Tech. and M.Tech. degrees in information technology. He received his Ph.D. degree in cybernetics from the University of Reading, UK in 2013. Dr. Kala has authored four books, 100 scientific papers, and is an active reviewer of leading journals of the domain. He has received numerous scholarships and grants from the Government of India, and is a recipient of the Best PhD Dissertation award from the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society.

1. An Introduction to Robotics
2. Localization, Mapping, and Control
3. An Introduction to Motion Planning with Bug Algorithms
4. Intelligent Graph Search Basics
5. Graph Search based Motion Planning
6. Configuration Space and Collision Checking
7. Roadmap and Cell Decomposition based Motion Planning
8. Probabilistic Roadmap
9. Rapidly-exploring Random Trees
10. Artificial Potential Field
11. Geometric and Fuzzy-Logic based Motion Planning
12. An Introduction to Machine Learning and Neural Networks
13. Learning-based Robot Motion Planning
14. An Introduction to Evolutionary Computation
15. Evolutionary Robot Motion Planning
16. Hybrid Planning Techniques
17. Multi-Robot Motion Planning
18. Task Planning Approaches
19. Motion Planning in Uncertainties and Reinforcement Learning
20. Swarm and Evolutionary Robotics
21. Simulation Systems and Case Studies