
Introduction to AI Robotics
Robin R. Murphy(Author)
Bradford Books (Publisher)
2nd Edition
Published on 6. November 2000
Book
Hardback
400 pages
978-0-262-13383-8 (ISBN)
Description
A comprehensive introduction to the AI approach to robotics, combining theoretical rigor and practical applications; with case studies and exercises.This text covers all the material needed to understand the principles behind the AI approach to robotics and to program an artificially intelligent robot for applications involving sensing, navigation, planning, and uncertainty. Robin Murphy is extremely effective at combining theoretical and practical rigor with a light narrative touch. In the overview, for example, she touches upon anthropomorphic robots from classic films and science fiction stories before delving into the nuts and bolts of organizing intelligence in robots.Following the overview, Murphy contrasts AI and engineering approaches and discusses what she calls the three paradigms of AI robotics: hierarchical, reactive, and hybrid deliberative/reactive. Later chapters explore multiagent scenarios, navigation and path-planning for mobile robots, and the basics of computer vision and range sensing. Each chapter includes objectives, review questions, and exercises. Many chapters contain one or more case studies showing how the concepts were implemented on real robots. Murphy, who is well known for her classroom teaching, conveys the intellectual adventure of mastering complex theoretical and technical material. An Instructor's Manual including slides, solutions, sample tests, and programming assignments is available to qualified professors who are considering using the book or who are using the book for class use.
More details
Series
Edition
second edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Massachusetts
United States
Publishing group
MIT Press Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Interest Age: From 18 years
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 203 mm
Thickness: 34 mm
Weight
1043 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-262-13383-8 (9780262133838)
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Person
Robin R. Murphy is Raytheon Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University.