Introduction to Autonomous Robots
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Nikolaus Correll, University of Colorado at Boulder
Copyright Year: 2016
Last Update: 2020
ISBN 13: 9780692700877
Publisher: Nikolaus Correll
Language: English
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Conditions of Use
Attribution-NonCommercial
CC BY-NC
Table of Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Locomotion and Manipulation
- 3 Forward and Inverse Kinematics
- 4 Path Planning
- 5 Sensors
- 6 Vision
- 7 Feature extraction
- 8 Uncertainty and Error Propagation
- 9 Localization
- 10 Grasping
- 11 Simultaneous Localization and Mapping
- 12 RGB-D SLAM
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About the Book
This book introduces concepts in mobile, autonomous robotics to 3rd-4th year students in Computer Science or a related discipline. The book covers principles of robot motion, forward and inverse kinematics of robotic arms and simple wheeled platforms, perception, error propagation, localization and simultaneous localization and mapping. The cover picture shows a wind-up toy that is smart enough to not fall off a table just using intelligent mechanism design and illustrate the importance of the mechanism in designing intelligent, autonomous systems. This book is open source, open to contributions, and released under a creative common license.
About the Contributors
Author
Nikolaus Correll is a roboticist and an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder in the Department of Computer Science with courtesy appointments in the departments of Aerospace, Electrical and Materials Engineering.