18 books like Introduction to autonomous mobile robots

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Disaster Robotics Robin R. Murphy · 2014 · 240p · ≈ 8h · Moderate A comprehensive, authoritative, and accessible reference for disaster robotics that covers theory, specific deployments, and ground, air, and marine modalities. This book offers the definitive guide to the theory and practice of disaster robotics. It can serve as an introduction for researchers and technologists, a reference for emergency managers, and a textbook in field robotics. Written by a… Shares: Mobile robots, Robots

Autonomous Mobile Robots in Unknown Outdoor Environments Xiaorui Zhu · 2017 · 255p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Mobile robots have been increasingly applied in many different scenarios, such as space exploration and search and rescue, where the robots are required to travel over uneven terrain while outdoors. This book provides a new framework and the related algorithms for designing autonomous mobile robotic systems in such unknown outdoor environments. Shares: Mobile robots, Engineering, Robots

Sensing, Intelligence, Motion Vladimir J. Lumelsky · 2005 · 456p · ≈ 15h · Moderate A leap forward in the field of robotics Until now, most of the advances in robotics have taken place in structured environments. Scientists and engineers have designed highly sophisticated robots, but most are still only able to operate and move in predetermined, planned environments designed specifically for the robots and typically at very high cost. This new book takes robotics to the next… Shares: Engineering, Technology, Robots

Reliability Models of Complex Systems for Robots and Automation Hamid Fazlollahtabar · 2017 · 93p · ≈ 3h · Moderate Shares: Engineering, Technology, Robots

Hybrid control and motion planning of dynamical legged locomotion Nasser Sadati · 2012 · 272p · ≈ 9h · Moderate "This book provides a comprehensive presentation of issues and challenges faced by researchers and practicing engineers in motion planning and hybrid control of dynamical legged locomotion. The major features range from offline and online motion planning algorithms to generate desired feasible periodic walking and running motions and tow-level control schemes, including within-stride feedback… Shares: Mobile robots, Robots

Visual Perception and Control of Underwater Robots Junzhi Yu · 2021 · 236p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Visual Perception and Control of Underwater Robots covers theories and applications from aquatic visual perception and underwater robotics. Within the framework of visual perception for underwater operations, image restoration, binocular measurement, and object detection are addressed. More specifically, the book includes adversarial critic learning for visual restoration, NSGA-II-based… Shares: Engineering, Technology, Robots

Nunquam Lawrence Durrell · 1970 · ★ 4.0 · 318p · ≈ 10h · Moderate A desperate scientist's mastery of technology may save him—or be his undoing—in this follow-up to Tunc by the New York Times–bestselling literary master.   The ominous and compelling sequel to Durrell's Tunc finds gifted inventor Felix Charlock called upon by the sinister international firm, Merlin, to apply his scientific prowess to a seemingly impossible project. He must literally… Shares: Technology, Robots

Intelligent Control of Robotic Systems Laxmidhar Behera · 2020 · 696p · ≈ 23h · Moderate This book illustrates basic principles, along with the development of the advanced algorithms, to realize smart robotic systems. It speaks to strategies by which a robot (manipulators, mobile robot, quadrotor) can learn its own kinematics and dynamics from data. In this context, two major issues have been dealt with; namely, stability of the systems and experimental validations. Learning… Shares: Technology, Robots

A choice of gods Clifford D. Simak · 1971 · ★ 3.7 · 188p · ≈ 6h · Moderate One night in July, 2135, there were some eight billion people on Earth! The next morning there were perhaps 400. There was no clue to what had happened to the world's population—but, over the centuries that followed, still stranger things occurred. The human lifespan now stretched to millennia instead of decades, and much of the remaining population developed the ability to move at will among… Shares: Technology, Robots

Neural Networks for Robotics Nancy Arana-Daniel · 2018 · 228p · ≈ 7h · Moderate The book offers an insight on artificial neural networks for giving a robot a high level of autonomous tasks, such as navigation, cost mapping, object recognition, intelligent control of ground and aerial robots, and clustering, with real-time implementations. The reader will learn various methodologies that can be used to solve each stage on autonomous navigation for robots, from object… Shares: Engineering, Robots

Generation robot Terri Favro · 2018 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Moderate "Generation Robot covers a century of science fiction, fact and, speculation--from the 1950 publication of Isaac Asimov's seminal robot masterpiece, I, Robot, to the 2050 Singularity when artificial and human intelligence are predicted to merge. Beginning with a childhood informed by pop-culture robots in movies, in comic books, and on TV in the 1960s to adulthood where the possibilities of… Shares: Technology, Robots

Adaptive Control for Robotic Manipulators Dan Zhang · 2016 · 440p · ≈ 14h · Moderate The robotic mechanism and its controller make a complete system. As the robotic mechanism is reconfigured, the control system has to be adapted accordingly. The need for the reconfiguration usually arises from the changing functional requirements. This book will focus on the adaptive control of robotic manipulators to address the changed conditions. The aim of the book is to summarise and… Shares: Engineering, Robots

Robot Builder's Sourcebook Gordon McComb · 2002 · 711p · ≈ 23h · Moderate Written by Gordon McComb, author of the classic Robot Builder’s Bonanza, one of the most popular books ever written on amateur robotics, the Sourcebook lists over 2500 mail-order suppliers and other sources, including local-area businesses, cross-referenced and categorized to make your search quick and easy. You’ll find detailed information about the resources, including addresses and phone… Shares: Technology, Robots

Electronic Skin Ali Ibrahim · 2020 · 250p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Considerable amount of effort has been devoted, over the recent years, towards the development of electronic skin (e-skin) for many application domains such as prosthetics, robotics, and industrial automation.Electronic Skin: Sensors and Systems focuses on the main components constituting the e-skin system. The e-skin system is based on: i) sensing materials composing the tactile sensor array,… Shares: Technology, Robots

Evolutionary computation David B. Fogel · 1995 · 274p · ≈ 9h · Moderate "In this revised and significantly expanded second edition, distinguished scientist David B. Fogel presents the latest advances in both the theory and practice of evolutionary computation to help you keep pace with developments in this fast-changing field.". "In-depth and updated, Evolutionary Computation shows you how to use simulated evolution to achieve machine intelligence. You will gain… Shares: Engineering, Technology

Space Exploration Ferguson Publishing Company · 2008 · 91p · ≈ 3h · Moderate [[Buzz Aldrin taking a core sample of the Moon during the 1969 Apollo 11 mission]] Shares: Engineering, Technology

Modeling, identification & control of robots W. Khalil · 2001 · 480p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Written by two of Europe's leading robotics experts, this book provides the tools for a unified approach to the modelling of robotic manipulators, whatever their mechanical structure. No other publication covers the three fundamental issues of robotics: modelling, identification and control. It covers the development of various mathematical models required for the control and simulation of… Shares: Technology, Robots

Decentralized estimation and control for multisensor systems Arthur G. O. Mutambara · 1998 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Decentralized Estimation and Control for Multisensor Systems explores the problem of developing scalable, decentralized estimation and control algorithms for linear and nonlinear multisensor systems. Such algorithms have extensive applications in modular robotics and complex or large scale systems, including the Mars Rover, the Mir station, and Space Shuttle Columbia.Most existing algorithms use… Shares: Technology, Robots

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