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Book Introduction to AI Robotics  second edition

Download or read book Introduction to AI Robotics second edition written by Robin R. Murphy and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive survey of artificial intelligence algorithms and programming organization for robot systems, combining theoretical rigor and practical applications. This textbook offers a comprehensive survey of artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms and programming organization for robot systems. Readers who master the topics covered will be able to design and evaluate an artificially intelligent robot for applications involving sensing, acting, planning, and learning. A background in AI is not required; the book introduces key AI topics from all AI subdisciplines throughout the book and explains how they contribute to autonomous capabilities. This second edition is a major expansion and reorganization of the first edition, reflecting the dramatic advances made in AI over the past fifteen years. An introductory overview provides a framework for thinking about AI for robotics, distinguishing between the fundamentally different design paradigms of automation and autonomy. The book then discusses the reactive functionality of sensing and acting in AI robotics; introduces the deliberative functions most often associated with intelligence and the capability of autonomous initiative; surveys multi-robot systems and (in a new chapter) human-robot interaction; and offers a “metaview” of how to design and evaluate autonomous systems and the ethical considerations in doing so. New material covers locomotion, simultaneous localization and mapping, human-robot interaction, machine learning, and ethics. Each chapter includes exercises, and many chapters provide case studies. Endnotes point to additional reading, highlight advanced topics, and offer robot trivia.

Book Emerging Topics in Computer Vision and Its Applications

Download or read book Emerging Topics in Computer Vision and Its Applications written by C. H. Chen and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2012 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives a comprehensive overview of the most advanced theories, methodologies and applications in computer vision. Particularly, it gives an extensive coverage of 3D and robotic vision problems. Example chapters featured are Fourier methods for 3D surface modeling and analysis, use of constraints for calibration-free 3D Euclidean reconstruction, novel photogeometric methods for capturing static and dynamic objects, performance evaluation of robot localization methods in outdoor terrains, integrating 3D vision with force/tactile sensors, tracking via in-floor sensing, self-calibration of camera networks, etc. Some unique applications of computer vision in marine fishery, biomedical issues, driver assistance, are also highlighted.

Book Vision Based Mobile Robotics  mobile robot localization using vision sensors and active probabilistic approaches

Download or read book Vision Based Mobile Robotics mobile robot localization using vision sensors and active probabilistic approaches written by Emanuele Frontoni and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-01-22 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The use of vision in mobile robotics in one of the main goal of this thesis. In particular novel appearance based approaches for image matching metric are introduced. These approaches are applied to the problem of mobile robot localization.Similarity measures between robot's views are used in probabilistic methods for robot pose estimation. In this field of probabilistic localization active approach are proposed allowing the robot to faster and better localize. All methods have been extensively tested using a real robot in an indoor environment.Note: the book is the publication of the PhD thesis discussed in Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy in 2006 by Emanuele Frontoni

Book Camera Models and Fundamental Concepts Used in Geometric Computer Vision

Download or read book Camera Models and Fundamental Concepts Used in Geometric Computer Vision written by Peter Sturm and published by Now Publishers Inc. This book was released on 2011 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Camera Models and Fundamental Concepts Used in Geometric Computer Vision surveys the image acquisition methods used in computer vision and especially, of the vast number of camera models that have been proposed and investigated over the years, and points out similarities between different models.

Book Robot 2023  Sixth Iberian Robotics Conference

Download or read book Robot 2023 Sixth Iberian Robotics Conference written by Lino Marques and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Robotics Research

Download or read book Robotics Research written by Makoto Kaneko and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-11-07 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Symposium of Robotics Research (ISRR) continues to be the premiere meeting of the International Foundation of Robotics Research (IFRR). The 13th International Symposium of Robotics Research took place Novemb3r 26-29, 2007, in Hiroshima, Japan, and was organized by the two editors of this book. This volume brings a collection of a broad range of topics in robotics. The content of these contributions provides a wide coverage of the current state of robotics research: the advances and challenges in its theoretical foundation and technology basis, and the developments in its traditional and novel areas of applications. Historically, the proceedings of the ISRR have featured ground-breaking work of the highest caliber, which influenced generations to come. The present volume promises to be no exception. The collection of scientific articles in this volume provides new insights to important problems in robotics, written by some of the leaders in the field.

Book Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots  second edition

Download or read book Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots second edition written by Roland Siegwart and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2011-02-18 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Intelligent Computing Technology

Download or read book Intelligent Computing Technology written by De-Shuang Huang and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-07-23 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the first of 3 volumes of refereed conference proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2012, held in Huangshan, China, in July 2012. The 242 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 753 submissions. The 84 papers included in this volume are organized in topical sections on evolutionary learning and genetic algorithms, fuzzy theory and models, swarm intelligence and optimization, kernel methods and supporting vector machines, nature inspired computing and optimization, systems biology and computational biology, knowledge discovery and data mining, graph theory and algorithms, machine learning theory and methods, biomedical informatics theory and methods, complex systems theory and methods, pervasive/ubiquitous computing theory and methods, intelligent computing in bioinformatics, intelligent computing in pattern recognition, intelligent computing in image processing, intelligent computing in robotics, intelligent computing in computer vision, intelligent computing in Petri nets/transportation systems, intelligent data fusion and information security, intelligent sensor networks, knowledge representation/reasoning and expert systems, hybrid optimization, and bio-inspired computing and application.

Book LoRa Localization

    Book Details:
  • Author : Zhiguo Shi
  • Publisher : Springer Nature
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 3031480082
  • Pages : 113 pages

Download or read book LoRa Localization written by Zhiguo Shi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Recent Advances in Indoor Localization Systems and Technologies

Download or read book Recent Advances in Indoor Localization Systems and Technologies written by Gyula Simon and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2021-08-30 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the enormous technical progress seen in the past few years, the maturity of indoor localization technologies has not yet reached the level of GNSS solutions. The 23 selected papers in this book present the recent advances and new developments in indoor localization systems and technologies, propose novel or improved methods with increased performance, provide insight into various aspects of quality control, and also introduce some unorthodox positioning methods.

Book Visual Analysis of Humans

    Book Details:
  • Author : Thomas B. Moeslund
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2011-10-08
  • ISBN : 0857299972
  • Pages : 633 pages

Download or read book Visual Analysis of Humans written by Thomas B. Moeslund and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-10-08 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique text/reference provides a coherent and comprehensive overview of all aspects of video analysis of humans. Broad in coverage and accessible in style, the text presents original perspectives collected from preeminent researchers gathered from across the world. In addition to presenting state-of-the-art research, the book reviews the historical origins of the different existing methods, and predicts future trends and challenges. Features: with a Foreword by Professor Larry Davis; contains contributions from an international selection of leading authorities in the field; includes an extensive glossary; discusses the problems associated with detecting and tracking people through camera networks; examines topics related to determining the time-varying 3D pose of a person from video; investigates the representation and recognition of human and vehicular actions; reviews the most important applications of activity recognition, from biometrics and surveillance, to sports and driver assistance.

Book Vision Based Autonomous Robot Navigation

Download or read book Vision Based Autonomous Robot Navigation written by Amitava Chatterjee and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-10-13 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph is devoted to the theory and development of autonomous navigation of mobile robots using computer vision based sensing mechanism. The conventional robot navigation systems, utilizing traditional sensors like ultrasonic, IR, GPS, laser sensors etc., suffer several drawbacks related to either the physical limitations of the sensor or incur high cost. Vision sensing has emerged as a popular alternative where cameras can be used to reduce the overall cost, maintaining high degree of intelligence, flexibility and robustness. This book includes a detailed description of several new approaches for real life vision based autonomous navigation algorithms and SLAM. It presents the concept of how subgoal based goal-driven navigation can be carried out using vision sensing. The development concept of vision based robots for path/line tracking using fuzzy logic is presented, as well as how a low-cost robot can be indigenously developed in the laboratory with microcontroller based sensor systems. The book describes successful implementation of integration of low-cost, external peripherals, with off-the-shelf procured robots. An important highlight of the book is that it presents a detailed, step-by-step sample demonstration of how vision-based navigation modules can be actually implemented in real life, under 32-bit Windows environment. The book also discusses the concept of implementing vision based SLAM employing a two camera based system.

Book Vision Systems

    Book Details:
  • Author : Goro Obinata
  • Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
  • Release : 2007-06-01
  • ISBN : 3902613017
  • Pages : 619 pages

Download or read book Vision Systems written by Goro Obinata and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Computer Vision is the most important key in developing autonomous navigation systems for interaction with the environment. It also leads us to marvel at the functioning of our own vision system. In this book we have collected the latest applications of vision research from around the world. It contains both the conventional research areas like mobile robot navigation and map building, and more recent applications such as, micro vision, etc.The fist seven chapters contain the newer applications of vision like micro vision, grasping using vision, behavior based perception, inspection of railways and humanitarian demining. The later chapters deal with applications of vision in mobile robot navigation, camera calibration, object detection in vision search, map building, etc.

Book Robot Vision

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gerald Sommer
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2008-02-11
  • ISBN : 3540781560
  • Pages : 476 pages

Download or read book Robot Vision written by Gerald Sommer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-02-11 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Robot Vision, RobVis 2008, held in Auckland, New Zealand, in February 2008. The 21 revised full papers presented together with 15 posters papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 59 submissions. The papers and posters are organized in topical sections on motion analysis, stereo vision, robot vision, computer vision, visual inspection, urban vision, and the poster section.

Book International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Systems for Sustainable Development  AI2SD   2023

Download or read book International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Systems for Sustainable Development AI2SD 2023 written by Mostafa Ezziyyani and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking of Intelligent Systems

Download or read book Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking of Intelligent Systems written by Raj Madhavan and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-04-29 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To design and develop capable, dependable, and affordable intelligent systems, their performance must be measurable. Scienti?c methodologies for standardization and benchmarking are crucial for quantitatively evaluating the performance of eme- ing robotic and intelligent systems’ technologies. There is currently no accepted standard for quantitatively measuring the performance of these systems against user-de?ned requirements; and furthermore, there is no consensus on what obj- tive evaluation procedures need to be followed to understand the performance of these systems. The lack of reproducible and repeatable test methods has precluded researchers working towards a common goal from exchanging and communic- ing results, inter-comparing system performance, and leveraging previous work that could otherwise avoid duplication and expedite technology transfer. Currently, this lack of cohesion in the community hinders progress in many domains, such as m- ufacturing, service, healthcare, and security. By providing the research community with access to standardized tools, reference data sets, and open source libraries of solutions, researchers and consumers will be able to evaluate the cost and be- ?ts associated with intelligent systems and associated technologies. In this vein, the edited book volume addresses performance evaluation and metrics for intel- gent systems, in general, while emphasizing the need and solutions for standardized methods. To the knowledge of the editors, there is not a single book on the market that is solely dedicated to the subject of performance evaluation and benchmarking of intelligent systems.

Book RFID Technology Integration for Business Performance Improvement

Download or read book RFID Technology Integration for Business Performance Improvement written by Lee, In and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of radio-frequency electromagnetic fields for wireless data transmission has presented several new opportunities for sharing, tracking, and reading digital information in various industries. RFID Technology Integration for Business Performance Improvement presents emerging research surrounding the use and value of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology for cost reduction, supply chain improvement, inventory management, and partner relationship management. This publication is ideal for use by business managers, researchers, academics, and advanced-level students seeking research on the management strategies, operational techniques, opportunities, and challenges of implementing and using this new technology in a business setting.