Minimalist Mobile Robotics (Perspectives in Artificial Intelligence)

By Jonathan H. Connell

Book Overview

Rather than using traditional artificial intelligence techniques, which are ineffective when applied to the complexities of real-world robot navigaiton, Connell describes a methodology of reconstructing intelligent robots with distributed, multiagent control systems. After presenting this methodology, hte author describes a complex, robust, and successful application-a mobile robot "can collection machine" which operates in an unmodified offifce environment occupied by moving people.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 012185230X
• ISBN13: 9780121852306
• Release Date: August 1990
• Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"