Overview

Autonomous robot vehicles are vehicles capable of intelligent motion and action without requiring either a guide or teleoperator control. The recent surge of interest in this subject will grow even grow further as their potential applications increase. Autonomous vehicles are currently being studied for use as reconnaissance/exploratory vehicles for planetary exploration, undersea, land and air environments, remote repair and maintenance, material handling systems for offices and factories, and even intelligent wheelchairs for the disabled. This reference is the first to deal directly with the unique and fundamental problems and recent progress associated with autonomous vehicles. The editors have assembled and combined significant material from a multitude of sources, and, in effect, now conviniently provide a coherent organization to a previously scattered and ill-defined field.

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Author:   Ingemar J. Cox ,  T. Lozano-Perez ,  Gordon T. Wilfong
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1990
ISBN:  

9781461389996

ISBN 10:   1461389992
Pages:   462
Publication Date:   06 August 1991
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Guidance (Kinematics, Control, and Trajectory Generation).- On the Kinematics of Wheeled Mobile Robots.- Kinematic Modeling for Feedback Control of an Omnidirectional Wheeled Mobile Robot.- An Automatic Guidance System of a Self-Controlled Vehicle.- Local Path Control for an Autonomous Vehicle.- Running with Symmetry.- Smooth Local Path Planning for Autonomous Vehicles.- 2. Sensors.- Sensor Models and Multisensor Integration.- Location Estimation and Uncertainty Analysis for Mobile Robots.- Inertial Navigation.- Continuous Transmission F.M. Sonar with One Octave Bandwidth and No Blind Time.- An Optical Rangefinder for Autonomous Robot Cart Navigation.- Error Modeling in Stereo Navigation.- 3. Navigation (Position and Course Estimation).- Statistical Theory of Passive Location Systems.- Estimating Uncertain Spatial Relationships in Robotics.- The Kalman Filter: An Introduction to Concepts.- Maintaining Representations of the Environment of a Mobile Robot.- Blanche: Position Estimation for an Autonomous Robot Vehicle.- 4. Map Representation.- Sonar-Based Real-World Mapping and Navigation.- Cartographic Databases.- Spatial Planning: A Configuration Space Approach.- Simplified Voronoi Diagrams.- Solving the Find-Path Problem by Good Representation of Free Space.- 5. Sensing Strategies.- Computational Complexity of Art Gallery Problems.- Sensing Strategies for Disambiguating Among Multiple Objects in Known Poses.- Probing Convex Polytopes.- 6. Motion Planning.- An Automatic Motion Planning System for a Convex Polygonal Mobile Robot in 2-Dimensional Polygonal Space.- Path-Planning Strategies for a Point Mobile Automaton Moving Amidst Unknown Obstacles of Arbitrary Shape.- Motion Planning for an Autonomous Vehicle.- Real-Time Obstacle Avoidance for Manipulators and Mobile Robots.- 7. Systems.- The Stanford Cart and the CMU Rover.- An Integrated Navigation and Motion Control System for Autonomous Multisensory Mobile Robots.- A Mars Rover for the 1990's.- A Mobile Robot: Sensing, Planning, and Locomotion.

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