Mobile robots : navigation, control and remote sensing /

• Main Author: Cook, Gerald, 1937-
• Corporate Author: Wiley InterScience (Online service)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Piscataway, NJ : IEEE, [2011]
• Subjects: Mobile robots > Remote sensing.; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Remote Sensing & Geographic Information Systems.; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Automation.; Mobile robots.; Robots.; Remote sensing.; Navigatie.; Regeltechniek.; Electronic books.
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"An important feature of this book is the particular combination of topics included. These are (1) control, (2) navigation and (3) remote sensing, all with application to mobile robots. Much of the material is readily extended to any type ground vehicle. In the controls area, robot steering is...

Table of Contents:

• Kinematic Models for Mobile Robots
• Mobile Robot Control
• Robot Attitude
• Robot Navigation
• Application of Kalman Filtering
• Remote Sensing
• Target Tracking Including Multiple Targets with Multiple Sensors
• Obstacle Mapping and its Application to Robot Navigation
• Operating a Robotic Manipulator
• Remote Sensing via UAVS
• Appendix A: Demonstrations of Undergraduate Student Robotic Projects
• Index.