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AuthorMatarić, Maja J.TitleThe robotics primer / Maja J. Mataric ; illustrations by Nathan Koenig.PublishedCambridge, Mass. : The MIT Press, c2007.FormatBook
Descriptionxvii, 306 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series( Intelligent robotics and autonomous agents series)
LinkTable of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0801/2007000981.html
NotesIncludes bibliographical references (p. [289]-291) and index.
ContentsPreface -- 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 anipulation 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 -- 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: 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 -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index.
Abstract"The Robotics Primer offers a broadly accessible introduction to robotics for students at pre-university and university levels, robot hobbyists, and anyone interested in this burgeoning field. The text takes the reader from the most basic concepts (including perception and movement) to the most novel and sophisticated applications and topics (humanoids, shape-shifting robots, space robotics), with an emphasis on what it takes to create autonomous intelligent robot behavior. The core concepts of robotics are carried through from fundamental definitions to more complex explanations, all presented in an engaging, conversational style that will appeal to readers of different backgrounds." --Back cover
ISBN9780262633543 (pbk. : alk. paper)026263354X (pbk. : alk. paper)SubjectRobotics.
Series Add.EntryIntelligent robotics and autonomous agents.

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