Robots and Lattice Automata
Editors: Sirakoulis, Georgios Ch., Adamatzky, Andrew (Eds.)
Free Preview- Brings together contributions from Engineering and Computer Science to unify the study and analysis of collectives of lattice automata and multi-robotic systems
- Written in simple language accessible not only to scientists and engineers but also to undergraduates and interested laymen
- Robotic systems presented and discussed in the book will pose a high degree of interest to industry and private companies
- Challenges discussed in the book will inspire mathematicians and computer scientists to contribute to the field of robotic engineering in many aspects
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The book gives a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art research and engineering in theory and application of Lattice Automata in design and control of autonomous Robots. Automata and robots share the same notional meaning. Automata (originated from the latinization of the Greek word “αυτόματον”) as self-operating autonomous machines invented from ancient years can be easily considered the first steps of robotic-like efforts. Automata are mathematical models of Robots and also they are integral parts of robotic control systems. A Lattice Automaton is a regular array or a collective of finite state machines, or automata. The Automata update their states by the same rules depending on states of their immediate neighbours.
In the context of this book, Lattice Automata are used in developing modular reconfigurable robotic systems, path planning and map exploration for robots, as robot controllers, synchronisation of robot collectives, robot vision, parallel robotic actuators. All chapters are written in an accessible manner and lavishly illustrated. The book will help computer and robotic scientists and engineers to understand mechanisms of decentralised functioning of robotic collectives and to design future and emergent reconfigurable, parallel and distributed robotic systems.
- Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Algorithmic Insights into Finite-State Robots
Pages 1-31
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Lattice Automata for Control of Self-Reconfigurable Robots
Pages 33-45
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Modular Reconfigurable Robotic Systems: Lattice Automata
Pages 47-75
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Lattice-Based Modular Self-Reconfigurable Systems
Pages 77-96
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Speed Control on a Hexapodal Robot Driven by a CNN-CPG Structure
Pages 97-116
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Robots and Lattice Automata
- Editors
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- Georgios Ch. Sirakoulis
- Andrew Adamatzky
- Series Title
- Emergence, Complexity and Computation
- Series Volume
- 13
- Copyright
- 2015
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer International Publishing Switzerland
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-10924-4
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-10924-4
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-10923-7
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-38548-8
- Series ISSN
- 2194-7287
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XII, 313
- Number of Illustrations
- 89 b/w illustrations, 91 illustrations in colour
- Topics
