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Probabilistic Robotics

Probabilistic robotics is a new and growing area in robotics, concerned with perception and control in the face of uncertainty. Building on the field of mathematical statistics, probabilistic robotics endows robots with a new level of robu...

Probabilistic Robotics (Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents series)

Probabilistic robotics is a new and growing area in robotics, concerned with perception and control in the face of uncertainty. Building on the field of mathematical statistics, probabilistic robotics endows robots with a new level of robu...

Probabilistic Reasoning and Decision Making in Sensory-Motor Systems (Springer Tracts in Advanced Ro...

Probabilistic Reasoning and Decision Making in Sensory-Motor Systems by Pierre Bessiere, Christian Laugier and Roland Siegwart provides a unique collection of a sizable segment of the cognitive systems research community in Europe. It repo...

Cellular Robotics And Micro Robotic Systems (World Scientific Series in Robotics and Automated Syste...

This book introduces interesting topics, from concepts to the latest research, on cellular and micro robotic systems. The cellular robotic system is a self-organizing robotic system composed of a large number of autonomous robotic units, na...

Probabilistic Systems and Random Signals

In-depth mathematical treatment, including examples of real systems to explain many of the probabilistic models and the use of Matlab both in examples and problem assignments, ensures students can relate to the mathematical material in pra...

Cellular Robotics And Micro Robotic Systems (World Scientific Series in Robotics and Automated Syste...

This book introduces interesting topics, from concepts to the latest research, on cellular and micro robotic systems. The cellular robotic system is a self-organizing robotic system composed of a large number of autonomous robotic units, na...

Probabilistic Methods in Structural Engineering

<P>This book presents the most important applications of probablistic and statistical approaches and procedures to structural engineering.</P>

Mathematical Models for Bioengineering and Probabilistic Systems

This volume consists of chapters devoted to the analysis of mathematical models for some important bio-engineering systems as well as probabilistic systems. The aim is to formulate mathematical models on a fairly general platform and to per...

Experimental Robotics: The 10th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (Springer Tracts in...

The International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER) is a series of bi-annual meetings which are organized in a rotating fashion around North America, Europe and Asia/Oceania. The goal of ISER is to provide a forum for research in r...

Reliability Engineering: Probabilistic Models and Maintenance Methods (Dekker Mechanical Engineering...

<P>An integrated resource, this book is ideal for novice and experienced engineers. Focusing on designing for the production of dependable and efficient equipment, the author takes that focus and applies it to a broad range of topics. He i...

Probabilistic Systems and Random Signals

In-depth mathematical treatment, including examples of real systems to explain many of the probabilistic models and the use of Matlab both in examples and problem assignments, ensures students can relate to the mathematical material in pra...

Probabilistic Reliability Engineering

With the growing complexity of engineered systems, reliability has increased in importance throughout the twentieth century. Initially developed to meet practical needs, reliability theory has become an applied mathematical discipline that ...

The Estimation and Tracking of Frequency (Cambridge Series in Statistical and Probabilistic Mathemat...

Many electronic and acoustic signals can be modeled as sums of sinusoids and noise. However, the amplitudes, phases and frequencies of the sinusoids are often unknown and must be estimated in order to characterize the periodicity or near-p...

On-Line Trajectory Generation in Robotic Systems: Basic Concepts for Instantaneous Reactions to Unfo...

This monograph focuses on sensor integration in robotics, in particular in robotic manipulation control systems. We consider a mechanical system with multiple degrees of freedom equipped with one or more sensors delivering digital and/or a...

FastSLAM: A Scalable Method for the Simultaneous Localization and Mapping Problem in Robotics (Sprin...

This monograph describes a new family of algorithms for the simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) problem in robotics, called FastSLAM. The FastSLAM-type algorithms have enabled robots to acquire maps of unprecedented size and accur...

Evolutionary Robotics: From Algorithms to Implementations (World Scientific Series in Robotics and I...

This book comprehensively describes evolutionary robotics and computational intelligence, and how different computational intelligence techniques are applied to robotic system design. It embraces the most widely used evolutionary approache...

Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics: Selected Papers from the International Conference o...

The present book includes a set of selected papers from the fourth "International Conference on Informatics in Control Automation and Robotics" (ICINCO 2007), held at the University of Angers, France, from 9 to 12 May 2007.

Underactuated Robotic Hands (Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics)

<P>This is a cornerstone publication in robotic grasping. The authors have developed an internationally recognized expertise in this area. Additionally, they designed and built several prototypes which attracted the attention of the scient...

123 Robotics Experiments for the Evil Genius (TAB Robotics)

The purpose of "Evil Genius" is to create an entertaining book made up of a series of projects that will explain electronics from static electricity (rubbing a balloon) to developing robots. The book will include the tools necessary for the...

An Introduction to AI Robotics (Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents)

This text covers all the material needed to understand the principles behind the AI approach to robotics and to program an artificially intelligent robot for applications involving sensing, navigation, planning, and uncertainty. Robin Murp...

Probabilistic Risk Analysis: Foundations and Methods

Probabilistic risk analysis aims to quantify the risk caused by high technology installations in situations where classical statistical analysis is difficult or impossible. This book discusses the fundamental notion of uncertainty, its rel...

Visual Perception and Robotic Manipulation: 3D Object Recognition, Tracking and Hand-Eye Coordinatio...

This book moves toward the realization of domestic robots by presenting an integrated view of computer vision and robotics, covering fundamental topics including optimal sensor design, visual servo-ing, 3D object modelling and recognition,...

Parallel Computation Systems for Robotics: Algorithms and Architectures (Series in Robotics and Auto...

This book presents a survey of the state-of-the-art research in parallel computational algorithms and architectures for robot manipulator control and simulation. It deals not only with specifics but also includes general abd broader issues ...

Mechanics of Robotic Manipulation (Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents)

&quot;Manipulation&quot; refers to a variety of physical changes made to the world around us. <i>Mechanics of Robotic Manipulation</i> addresses one form of robotic manipulation, moving objects, and the various processes involved&mdash;gra...

Probabilistic Methods in Structural Engineering

<P>This book presents the most important applications of probablistic and statistical approaches and procedures to structural engineering.</P>

Natural Image Statistics: A Probabilistic Approach to Early Computational Vision. (Computational Ima...

One of the most successful frameworks in computational neuroscience is modelling visual processing using the statistical structure of natural images. In this framework, the visual system of the brain constructs a model of the statistical r...

Choosing Safety: A Guide to Using Probabilistic Risk Assessment and Decision Analysis in Complex, Hi...

The technological age has seen catastrophic and preventable failures from buildings and bridges to space and launch vehicles, from chemical factories to nuclear power plants, from ships to airplanes, and from trains to automobiles. Often th...

Decisions under Uncertainty: Probabilistic Analysis for Engineering Decisions

To better understand the core concepts of probability and to see how they affect real-world decisions about design and system performance, engineers and scientists might want to ask themselves the following questions: What exactly is meant...

Probabilistic Methods for Financial and Marketing Informatics

Bayesian Networks are a form of probabilistic graphical models and they are used for modeling knowledge in many application areas, from medicine to image processing. They are particularly useful for business applications, ans<br><br>* Uniq...

Urban Stormwater Management Planning with Analytical Probabilistic Models

Understanding how to properly manage urban stormwater is a critical concern to civil and environmental engineers the world over. Mismanagement of stormwater and urban runoff results in flooding, erosion, and water quality problems. In an e...