Computational principles of mobile robotics

the long version

"Unlike the robots of Isaac Asimov and other popular writers of science fiction, actual autonomous robots must negotiate the reality of moving, sensing, and reasoning out their environment. This book approaches these three tasks and describes the way in which existing robotic systems have addressed them.". "Computational Principles of Mobile Robotics emphasizes the computational methods of programming robotics rather than the methods of constructing the hardware. Advanced undergraduate and graduate students and researchers in the field of mobile robotics will find this book useful as a comprehensive treatment of the range of issues in the field."--BOOK JACKET.