Computational Principles of Mobile Robotics
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: April 15, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780521560214
Subjects: Robotics; Automation; Technology; Technology & Industrial Arts; Computer Books: General; Telecommunications; General; Computers / Computer Graphics / General; Engineering - Mechanical; Mobile robots
First sentence: The ability to navigate purposefully is fundamental to most animals and to every intelligent organism.
Description: "Unlike the robots of Isaac Asimov and other popular writers of science fiction, actual autonomous robots must negotiate the reality of moving, sensing, and reasoning out their environment. This book approaches these three tasks and describes the way in which existing robotic systems have addressed them.".

"Computational Principles of Mobile Robotics emphasizes the computational methods of programming robotics rather than the methods of constructing the hardware. Advanced undergraduate and graduate students and researchers in the field of mobile robotics will find this book useful as a comprehensive treatment of the range of issues in the field."--BOOK JACKET.