Mobile Robots: Perception and Navigation

Mobile Robots: Perception and Navigation
by Sascha Kolski

Publisher: InTech 2007
ISBN/ASIN: 3866112831
Number of pages: 704

Description:
Today robots navigate autonomously in office environments as well as outdoors. They show their ability to beside mechanical and electronic barriers in building mobile platforms, perceiving the environment and deciding on how to act in a given situation are crucial problems. In this book we focused on these two areas of mobile robotics, Perception and Navigation. This book gives a wide overview over different navigation techniques describing both navigation techniques dealing with local and control aspects of navigation as well es those handling global navigation aspects of a single robot and even for a group of robots.