Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots
by Roland Siegwart, Illah Reza Nourbakhsh, Davide Scaramuzza · Roland Siegwart, Illah Reza Nourbakhsh, Davide Scaramuzza
Standard textbook on mobile robotics by Siegwart, Nourbakhsh and Scaramuzza covering locomotion, kinematics, perception and sensors, probabilistic localization, mapping and path planning. Readers learn how wheeled and legged robots sense their environment, estimate their position and navigate autonomously.
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