Engineering autonomous vehicles and robots : the DragonFly modular based approach The first book of its kind on the detailed steps for creating an autonomous vehicle or robot this book provides an overview of the technology and introduction of the key elements involved in developing autonomous vehicles and offers an excellent introduction to the basics for someone new to the topic of autonomous vehicles and the innovative modular based engineering approach called DragonFly. Engineering Autonomous Vehicles and Robots: The DragonFly Modular based Approach covers everything that technical professionals need to know about: CAN bus; chassis; sonars; radars; GNSS; computer vision; localization; perception; motion planning etc. Particularly it covers Computer Vision for active perceptionandlocalization as well as mapping and motion planning. The book offers several case studies on the building of an autonomous passenger pod bus and vending robot etc. It features a large amount of supplementary material including the standard protocol and sample codes for chassis sonar and radar. GPSD protocol NMEA protocol and GPS deployment methods are also provided. Most importantly readers will learn the philosophy behind the DragonFly modular based design approach which empowers readers to design and build their own autonomous vehicles and robots with flexibility and affordability