Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots

by Roland Siegwart, Illah Reza Nourbakhsh, Davide Scaramuzza

The second edition of a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of mobile robotics, from algorithms to mechanisms.Mobile robots range from the Mars Pathfinder mission's teleoperated Sojourner to the cleaning robots in the Paris Metro. This text offers students and other interested readers an introduction to the fundamentals of mobile robotics, spanning the mechanical, motor, sensory, perceptual, and cognitive layers the field comprises. The text focuses on mobility itself, offering an overview of the mechanisms that allow a mobile robot to move through a real world environment to perform its tasks, including locomotion, sensing, localization, and motion planning. It synthesizes material from such fields as kinematics, control theory, signal analysis, computer vision, information theory, artificial intelligence, and probability theory. The book presents the techniques and technology that enable mobility in a series of interacting modules. Each chapter treats a different aspect of mobility, as the book moves from low-level to high-level details. It covers all aspects of mobile robotics, including software and hardware design considerations, related technologies, and algorithmic techniques.

This second edition has been revised and updated throughout, with 130 pages of new material on such topics as locomotion, perception, localization, and planning and navigation. Problem sets have been added at the end of each chapter. Bringing together all aspects of mobile robotics into one volume, Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots can serve as a textbook or a working tool for beginning practitioners.

Curriculum developed by Dr. Robert King, Colorado School of Mines, and Dr. James Conrad, University of North Carolina-Charlotte, to accompany the National Instruments LabVIEW Robotics Starter Kit, are available. Included are 13 (6 by Dr. King and 7 by Dr. Conrad) laboratory exercises for using the LabVIEW Robotics Starter Kit to teach mobile robotics concepts.

Genres: Textbooks, Engineering, Computer Science, Science, Programming, Nonfiction, Technology

453 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 2004

Reviews

[Abdelrhman · Rating 4 out of 5]

The second edition is far more better than the 1st one especially in chapter 4 related to the feature extraction and motion from structure also in chapter 5 they added lots of explanation on SLAM and markov localization now it's more compact. For the rest of the book there's tons of reference to go deeper in each topic and most of them are very new compared to the time of the book.

The last star for lack of explanation in kinematics of both legged and wheeled robotics also how everything is connected is still vague a little bit especially the action part but if what's you're after is deeper understanding in Perception and how it's connected to Localization and planning then you're in for a treat especially accompanying the AMRx course on EDX and doing the optional simulation in VREP.

[Cmwe808 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Four stars in from me for this book. That is, four celestial bodies to which to send your rover. The chapter when he derives the transformation matrix was cliff hanger central!

[Arnoud Visser]

A book that covers nearly every aspect of Autonomous Mobile Robots. The level is good, the paragraphs are well written, but the book organization of the book makes it difficult to read. The chapters are long and it is not always clear where the story is heading. Still, it is one of the best introduction on this subject.

[Arnoud Visser]

Checking the chapters about locomotion and kinematics. Switched halfway to the 2nd edition

[Tomasz Bartczak · Rating 3 out of 5]

read parts of it during edX course on this topic. quite detailed as for me.