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Good General Introduction to Robotics Book

WhitWhit Posts: 4,191
edited 2014-12-06 18:49 in Robotics
I am reading a good introduction to robotics' book that gives a good overview of the current state of the field. It also helps clarify definitions and issues about autonomy and tele-operation. Robotics: A Very Short Introduction is it's title.

It is available in paperback, but I am reading a Kindle version. You can find it here - http://www.amazon.com/Robotics-Very-Short-Introduction-Introductions/dp/0199695989/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1416837502&sr=8-1&keywords=a+very+short+introduction+to+robotics

This could be used with high school, college students as a brief but broad introduction to robotics.

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  • GrandeNurseGrandeNurse Posts: 110
    edited 2014-11-24 08:02
    Any MAP and MAZE information? Detecting the environment, building a map, making a tour of the map (traveling sales-person type), ending up where you started. Changing the planned tour when the map changes due to the injection of an obstacle.
  • WhitWhit Posts: 4,191
    edited 2014-11-24 09:25
    The book is really just an introduction and overview - nothing Is dealt with in detail - click the link and do the "look inside" to see the table of contents.

    More detailed info on mapping and mazes would be in more detailed texts - there is much available on the web too. A quick search found this very detailed article from Stanford's Sebastian Thrun - http://robots.stanford.edu/papers/thrun.mapping-tr.pdf

    This is from his CMU days and is called a "survey!" Obviously, many subjects in robotics run very deep indeed!
  • GrandeNurseGrandeNurse Posts: 110
    edited 2014-11-24 14:32
    Thanks, yes I've read that one. Yes, there are many other references written more recently that talk about other dynamic algorithms. Yes, I agree with Thrun, it's a difficult problem when working with Memory (ram) limited equipment.
  • WhitWhit Posts: 4,191
    edited 2014-12-06 18:49
    I have finished Robotics: A Very Short Introduction by Alan Winfield. This is a very good book about robotics. It really has changed the way I think about some aspects of robotics.

    It is a great overview of the entire subject.

    Here is a page from the author's blog about the book - http://alanwinfield.blogspot.com/p/robotics-very-short-introduction.html
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