Intelligent Robots - Sensing, Modeling And Planning
Intelligent Robots - Sensing, Modeling And Planning

Author: Bob Bolles

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 1997-12-04

Total Pages: 478

ISBN-13: 9814497258

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Rapid advances in sensors, computers, and algorithms continue to fuel dramatic improvements in intelligent robots. In addition, robot vehicles are starting to appear in a number of applications. For example, they have been installed in public settings to perform such tasks as delivering items in hospitals and cleaning floors in supermarkets; recently, two small robot vehicles were launched to explore Mars.This book presents the latest advances in the principal fields that contribute to robotics. It contains contributions written by leading experts addressing topics such as Path and Motion Planning, Navigation and Sensing, Vision and Object Recognition, Environment Modeling, and others.

Intelligent Planning for Mobile Robotics: Algorithmic Approaches
Intelligent Planning for Mobile Robotics: Algorithmic Approaches

Author: Tiwari, Ritu

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2012-09-30

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1466620757

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Robotics is an ever-expanding field and intelligent planning continues to play a major role. Given that the intention of mobile robots is to carry out tasks independent from human aid, robot intelligence is needed to make and plan out decisions based on various sensors. Planning is the fundamental activity that implements this intelligence into the mobile robots to complete such tasks. Understanding problems, challenges, and solutions to path planning and how it fits in is important to the realm of robotics. Intelligent Planning for Mobile Robotics: Algorithmic Approaches presents content coverage on the basics of artificial intelligence, search problems, and soft computing approaches. This collection of research provides insight on both robotics and basic algorithms and could serve as a reference book for courses related to robotics, special topics in AI, planning, applied soft computing, applied AI, and applied evolutionary computing. It is an ideal choice for research students, scholars, and professors alike.

Sensor Modelling, Design and Data Processing for Autonomous Navigation
Sensor Modelling, Design and Data Processing for Autonomous Navigation

Author: Martin David Adams

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9789810234966

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This invaluable book presents an unbiased framework for modelling and using sensors to aid mobile robot navigation. It addresses the problem of accurate and reliable sensing in confined environments and makes a detailed analysis of the design and construction of a low cost optical range finder. This is followed by a quantitative model for determining the sources and propagation of noise within the sensor. The physics behind the causes of erroneous data is also used to derive a model for detecting and labelling such data as false. In addition, the author's data-processing algorithms are applied to the problem of environmental feature extraction. This forms the basis of a solution to the problem of mobile robot localisation. The book develops a relationship between the kinematics of a mobile robot during the execution of successive manoeuvres, and the sensed features. Results which update a mobile vehicle's position using features from 2D and 3D scans are presented.

Robotics
Robotics

Author: Bruno Siciliano

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2010-08-20

Total Pages: 644

ISBN-13: 1846286417

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Based on the successful Modelling and Control of Robot Manipulators by Sciavicco and Siciliano (Springer, 2000), Robotics provides the basic know-how on the foundations of robotics: modelling, planning and control. It has been expanded to include coverage of mobile robots, visual control and motion planning. A variety of problems is raised throughout, and the proper tools to find engineering-oriented solutions are introduced and explained. The text includes coverage of fundamental topics like kinematics, and trajectory planning and related technological aspects including actuators and sensors. To impart practical skill, examples and case studies are carefully worked out and interwoven through the text, with frequent resort to simulation. In addition, end-of-chapter exercises are proposed, and the book is accompanied by an electronic solutions manual containing the MATLAB® code for computer problems; this is available free of charge to those adopting this volume as a textbook for courses.

Modelling and Planning for Sensor Based Intelligent Robot Systems
Modelling and Planning for Sensor Based Intelligent Robot Systems

Author: Horst Bunke

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 516

ISBN-13: 9789810222383

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This edited and reviewed volume consists of papers that were originally presented at a workshop in the Scientific Center at Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany. It gives an overview of the field and presents the latest developments in the areas of modeling and planning for sensor based robots. The particular topics addressed include active vision, sensor fusion, environment modeling, motion planning, robot navigation, distributed control architectures, reactive behavior, and others.

Intelligent Robotic Planning Systems
Intelligent Robotic Planning Systems

Author: Phillip C.-Y. Sheu

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 9789810207595

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Discusses generic planning problems with robotics-specific considerations. Includes the recent results in reconfigurable robot planning, multiple robot planning, plan recovery, and planning in uncertain environments.

Sensor Based Intelligent Robots
Sensor Based Intelligent Robots

Author: Henrik I Christensen

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2007-01-01

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 3540466193

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This book constitutes the thorougly refereed post-proceedings of an international workshop on sensor based Intelligent Robot held in Dagstuhl Castle, Germany in September/October 1998. The 17 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed for inclusion in the book. Among the topics addressed are robot navigation, motion planning, autonomous mobile robots, wheelchair robots, interactive robots, car navigation systems, visual tracking, sensor based navigation, distributed algorithms, computer vision, intelligent agents, robot control, and computational geometry.

Biologically Inspired Intelligent Robots
Biologically Inspired Intelligent Robots

Author: Yoseph Bar-Cohen

Publisher: SPIE Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 9780819448729

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The multidisciplinary issues involved in the development of biologically inspired intelligent robots include materials, actuators, sensors, structures, functionality, control, intelligence, and autonomy. This book reviews various aspects ranging from the biological model to the vision for the future.

Advanced Robotics & Intelligent Machines
Advanced Robotics & Intelligent Machines

Author: J. O. Gray

Publisher: IET

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13: 9780852968536

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Advanced robotics describes the use of sensor-based robotic devices which exploit powerful computers to achieve the high levels of functionality that begin to mimic intelligent human behaviour. The object of this book is to summarise developments in the base technologies, survey recent applications and highlight new advanced concepts which will influence future progress.

Intelligent Robotic Systems
Intelligent Robotic Systems

Author: Spyros G. Tzafestas

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2020-08-27

Total Pages: 740

ISBN-13: 1000148823

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A multiplicity of techniques and angles of attack are incorporated in 18 contributions describing recent developments in the structure, architecture, programming, control, and implementation of industrial robots capable of performing intelligent action and decision making. Annotation copyright Book