Making robots smarter
Subtitle: combining sensing and  action through robot learning
By: edited by Katharina Morik, Michael Kaiser and Volker Klingspor.
Contributors: Morik, Katharina.; Kaiser, Michael.; Klingspor, Volker.
Publisher: Kluwer Academic
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
Subjects: Robots -- Control systems.
Description: "Making Robots Smarter is a book about learning robots. It treats this topic based on the idea that the integration of sensing and action is the central issue. In the first part of the book, aspects of learning in execution and control are discussed. Methods for the automatic synthesis of controllers, for active sensing, for learning to enhance assembly, and for learning sensor-based navigation are presented.

Since robots are not isolated but should serve us, the second part of the book discusses learning for human-robot interaction. Methods of learning understandable concepts for assembly, monitoring, and navigation are described as well as optimizing the implementation of such understandable concepts for a robot's real-time performance."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-260) and index.