This book offers students and other interested readers an introduction to the fundamentals of mobile robotics, spanning the mechanical, motor, sensory, perceptual, and cognitive layers.

The text focuses on mobility itself, offering an overview of the mechanisms that allow a mobile robot to move through a real world environment to perform tasks, including locomotion, sensing, localization, and motion planning. The book presents techniques and technology that enable mobility in a series of interacting modules. It covers all aspects of mobile robotics, including software and hardware design considerations, related technologies, and algorithmic techniques.

NEW TO THIS EDITION :

• New material has been added on topics such as locomotion, perception, localization, and planning and navigation.

• Problem sets have been added at the end of each chapter.

As the book covers all aspects of robotics into one volume, it can serve as textbook or working tool for beginning practitioners.

“This text provides a clear and systematic development of the essentials of mobile robotics. The second edition adds up-to-date material to a book that has already been adopted in robotic classes worldwide. With this guide in hand, students and readers will swiftly navigate the field toward more advanced systems.”

—?Raja Chatila
LAAS-CNRS, FranceAbout the AuthorROLAND SIEGWART is Professor of Autonomous Systems and Director of the Center for Product Design at the Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems, ETH Zürich.|IIIAH R. NOURBAKHSH is Professor of Robotics and Director of the CREATE Lab in the Robotics Institute, School of Computer Science, at Carnegie Mellon University.|DAVIDE SCARAMUZZA is Senior Researcher at the Autonomous Systems Lab at ETH Zürich, where he is also a lecturer and leader of the European project sFly.