Nature has always been a source of inspiration and ideas for the robotics community. New solutions and technologies are required and hence this book is coming out to address and deal with the main challenges facing walking and climbing robots, and contributes with innovative solutions, designs, technologies and techniques. …
Neural Networks
Free online book “Neural Networks” by Genevieve Orr. It’s goal is to introduce students to a powerful class of model, the Neural Network, a broad term which includes many diverse models and approaches. It will first motivate networks by analogy to the brain. The analogy is loose, but serves to introduce the idea of parallel and distributed computation. …
New Approaches in Automation and Robotics
The book New Approaches in Automation and Robotics offers in 22 chapters a collection of recent developments in automation, robotics as well as control theory. It is dedicated to researchers in science and industry, students, and practicing engineers, who wish to update and enhance their knowledge on modern methods and innovative applications. …
Introduction to Machine Learning
This free pdf book “Introduction to Machine Learning” by Nils J. Nilsson …
Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction
Reinforcement learning, one of the most active research areas in artificial intelligence, is a computational approach to learning whereby an agent tries to maximize the total amount of reward it receives when interacting with a complex, uncertain environment. In Reinforcement Learning, Richard Sutton and Andrew Barto provide a clear and simple account of the key ideas and algorithms of reinforcement learning. …
Manufacturing the Future
The primarily goal of this book is to cover the state-of-the-art development and future directions in modern manufacturing systems. …
Industrial Robotics: Theory, Modelling and Control
This book covers a wide range of topics relating to advanced industrial robotics, sensors and automation technologies. Although being highly technical and complex in nature, the papers presented in this book represent some of the latest cutting edge technologies and advancements in industrial robotics technology. …
Vision Systems: Applications
Computer Vision is the most important key in developing autonomous navigation systems for interaction with the environment. It also leads us to marvel at the functioning of our own vision system. In this book we have collected the latest applications of vision research from around the world. …
Vision Systems: Segmentation and Pattern Recognition
Research in computer vision has exponentially increased in the last two decades due to the availability of cheap cameras and fast processors. This increase has also been accompanied by a blurring of the boundaries between the different applications of vision, making it truly interdisciplinary. …
Scene Reconstruction Pose Estimation and Tracking
This free book reports recent advances in the use of pattern recognition techniques for computer and robot vision. The sciences of pattern recognition and computational vision have been inextricably intertwined since their early days, some four decades ago with the emergence of fast digital computing. …