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Mobile Robotics

A Practical Introduction

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Authors:
  1. Ulrich Nehmzow

    1. Department of Computer Science, The University of Essex, Colchester, UK

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  • A thorough introduction to the design, construction and evaluation of autonomous mobile robots
  • Includes a new chapter on novelty detection
  • Contains detailed case studies that show how to build and program real working robots

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction

    • Ulrich Nehmzow
    Pages 1-6

  3. Foundations

    • Ulrich Nehmzow
    Pages 7-23

  4. Robot Hardware

    • Ulrich Nehmzow
    Pages 25-45

  5. Robot Learning: Making Sense of Raw Sensor Data

    • Ulrich Nehmzow
    Pages 47-94

  6. Navigation

    • Ulrich Nehmzow
    Pages 95-166

  7. Novelty Detection

    • Ulrich Nehmzow
    Pages 167-182

  8. Simulation:Modelling Robot-Environment Interaction

    • Ulrich Nehmzow
    Pages 183-198

  9. Analysis of Robot Behaviour

    • Ulrich Nehmzow
    Pages 199-247

  10. Outlook

    • Ulrich Nehmzow
    Pages 249-254

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 255-280
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About this book

Mobile Robotics: A Practical Introduction (2nd edition) is an excellent introduction to the foundations and methods used for designing completely autonomous mobile robots. A fascinating, cutting-edge, research topic, autonomous mobile robotics is now taught in more and more universities. In this book you are introduced to the fundamental concepts of this complex field via twelve detailed case studies that show how to build and program real working robots. Topics covered in clued learning, autonomous navigation in unmodified, noisy and unpredictable environments, and high fidelity robot simulation. This new edition has been updated to include a new chapter on novelty detection, and provides a very practical introduction to mobile robotics for a general scientific audience. It is essential reading for 2nd and 3rd year undergraduate students and postgraduate students studying robotics, artificial intelligence, cognitive science and robot engineering. The update and overview of core concepts in mobile robotics will assist and encourage practitioners of the field and set challenges to explore new avenues of research in this exiting field. The author is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Essex. "A very fine overview over the relevant problems to be solved in the attempt to bring intelligence to a moving vehicle." Professor Dr. Ewald von Puttkamer, University of Kaiserslautern "Case studies show ways of achieving an impressive repertoire of kinds of learned behaviour, navigation and map-building. The book is an admirable introduction to this modern approach to mobile robotics and certainly gives a great deal of food for thought. This is an important and though-provoking book." Alex M. Andrew in Kybernetes Vol 29 No 4 and Robotica Vol 18

Reviews

From the reviews of the second edition:

"The book is an admirable introduction to its modern approach to mobile robotics and certainly gives a great deal of food for thought. … Like its first edition, this is an important and thought-provoking book." (Alex M. Andrew, Robotica, Vol. 22 (347), 2004)

"Mobile Robotics: A Practical Introduction (2nd edition) is an excellent introduction to the foundations and methods used for designing completely autonomous mobile robots. … provides a very practical introduction to mobile robotics for a general scientific audience. It is essential reading for 2nd and 3rd year undergraduate students and postgraduate students studying robotics, artificial intelligence, cognitive science and robot engineering. … is an admirable introduction to this modern approach to mobile robotics and certainly gives a great deal of food for thought." (Alex M. Andrew, Artificial Life & Robotics, Vol. 7 (4), 2004)

 

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Computer Science, The University of Essex, Colchester, UK

    Ulrich Nehmzow

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Mobile Robotics

  • Book Subtitle: A Practical Introduction

  • Authors: Ulrich Nehmzow

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0025-6

  • Publisher: Springer London

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London 2003

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-85233-726-1Published: 08 July 2003

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4471-0025-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 2

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 280

  • Number of Illustrations: 68 b/w illustrations

  • Additional Information: Originally published in the series "Applied Computing"

  • Topics: Robotics and Automation, Artificial Intelligence, Control, Robotics, Mechatronics

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