Introduction to AI Robotics

 

by Robin Murphy
MIT Press, copyright 2000

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A note from the author:

The book is a broad survey and represents the state of the practice circa 1999. Robotics is a rapidly changing field and I am working on the second edition this year. I teach the course each year in the fall to approximately 35 undergraduate and 10 graduate students and update the materials accordingly. In the meantime, my slides reflect advances and alternative organization of themes. Probably the biggest changes are to the sections on teleoperation, multi-agents, and human-robot interaction, and the de-emphasis on architectures.

I'm always open for suggestions and feedback, plus feel free to send me your course materials so we can create a forum. Despite the book being painstaking reviewed by myself, an editor, and two professors at other universities who taught out of the preprints, some typos and errors appear so check out the errata.

Slides for First Edition

Slides for Second Edition (Beta)

  • Chapter 1: What are Robots?. ppt slides and the pdf version (good a quick look)
  • Chapter 2: Telesystems. the pdf version
  • Chapter 3: Biological Foundations of the Reactive Paradigm. ppt slides and pdf version
  • Chapter 5: The Reactive Paradigm
  • Chapter 6: Selecting and Combining Behaviors
  • Chapter 7: Common Sensors and Sensing Techniques
  • Chapter 8: Designing a Behavior-Based Implementation
  • Chapter 9: Multi-Agents
  • Chapter 10: Navigation and the Hybrid Paradigm
  • Chapter 11: Topological Path Planning
  • Chapter 12: Metric Path Planning
  • Chapter 13: Localization and Mapping
  • Chapter 14: Affective Robots
  • Chapter 15: Human-Robot Interaction
  • Chapter 16: What Can Robot Do and What Will They Be Able to Do?

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