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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Maja J Matarić |
| ISBN: | 9780262633543 026263354X |
| OCLC Number: | 79002109 |
| Description: | xvii, 306 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Preface -- What is a robot? -- Where do robots come from? -- Control theory-- Cybernetics -- Grey Walter's tortoise -- Braitenberg's vehicles -- Artificial intelligence -- What's in a robot? -- Embodiment -- Sensing -- Action -- Brains and brawn -- Autonomy -- Arms, legs, wheels, tracks, and what really drives them -- Active vs. passive actuation -- Types of actuators -- Motors -- Direct-current (DC) motors -- Gearing -- Servo motors -- Degrees of freedom -- Move it! -- Stability -- Moving and gaits -- Wheels and steering -- Staying on the path vs. getting there -- Grasping at straws -- Endeffectors -- Teleoperation -- Why is manipulation hard? -- What's going on? -- Levels of processing -- Switch on the light -- Passive vs. active sensors -- Switches -- Light sensors -- Polarized light -- Reflective optosensors -- Reflectance sensors -- Infra red light -- Modulation and demodulation of light -- Break beam sensors -- Shaft encoders -- Resistive position sensors -- Potentiometers -- Sonars, lasers, and cameras -- Ultrasonic or sonar sensing -- Sonar before and beyond robotics -- Specular reflection -- Laser sensing -- Visual sensing -- Cameras -- Edge detection -- Model-based vision -- Motion vision -- Stereo vision -- Texture, shading, contours -- Biological vision -- Vision for robots -- Stay in control -- Feedback or closed loop control -- The many faces of error -- An example of a feedback control robot -- Types of feedback control -- Proportional control -- Derivative control -- Integral control -- PD and PID control -- Feedforward or open loop control -- The building blocks of control -- Who needs control architectures? -- Languages for programming robots -- And the architectures are ... -- Time -- Modularity -- Representation -- What's on your head? -- The many ways to make a map -- What can the robot represent? -- Costs of representing -- Think hard, act later -- What is planning? -- Costs of planning -- Don't think, react! -- Action selection -- Subsumption architecture -- Herbert, or how to sequence behaviors through the world -- Think and act separately, in parallel -- Dealing with changes in the world/map/task -- Planning and replanning -- Avoiding replanning -- On-line and off-line planning -- Think the way you act -- Distributed representation -- An example: distributed mapping -- Toto the robot -- Toto's navigation -- Toto's landmark detection -- Toto's mapping behaviors -- Path planning in Toto's behavior map -- Toto's map-following -- Making your robot behave -- Behavior arbitration: make a choice -- Behavior fusion: sum it up -- When the unexpected happens -- An example: emergent wall-following -- The whole is greater than the sum of its parts -- Components of emergence -- Expect the unexpected -- Predictability of surprise -- Good vs. bad emergent behavior -- Architectures and emergence -- Going places -- Localization -- Search and path planning -- SLAM -- Coverage -- Go, team! -- Benefits of teamwork -- Challenges of teamwork -- Types of groups and teams -- Communication -- Kin recognition -- Getting a team to play together -- I'm the boss: centralized control -- Work it out as a team: distributed control -- Architectures for multi-robot control -- Pecking orders: hierarchies -- Things keep getting better -- Reinforcement learning -- Supervised learning -- Learning by imitation/from demonstration -- Learning and forgetting -- Where to next? -- Space robotics -- Surgical robotics -- Self-reconfigurable robotics -- Humanoid robotics -- Social robotics and human-robot interaction -- Service, assistive and rehabilitation robotics -- Educational robotics -- Ethical implications. |
| Series Title: | Intelligent robotics and autonomous agents. |
| Responsibility: | Maja J. Matarić ; illustrations by Nathan Koenig. |
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