Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 672.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
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Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 17:48:34 +0000
From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi@statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Subject: [MIT Release] Introduction to AI Robotics by Robin R. Murphy
Dear humanist scholars,
hello, i thought--this might interest you.-arun
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Introduction to AI Robotics
Robin R. Murphy
For more information please visit
http://mitpress.mit.edu/promotions/books/MURIHF00.
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 Murphy is extremely effective at
combining theoretical and practical rigor with a light narrative touch. In
the overview, for example, she touches upon anthropomorphic robots from
classic films and science fiction stories before delving into the nuts and
bolts of organizing intelligence in robots.
Following the overview, Murphy contrasts AI and engineering approaches and
discusses what she calls the three paradigms of AI robotics: hierarchical,
reactive, and hybrid deliberative/reactive. Later chapters explore
multiagent scenarios, navigation and path-planning for mobile robots, and
the basics of computer vision and range sensing. Each chapter includes
objectives, review questions, and exercises. Many chapters contain one or
more case studies showing how the concepts were implemented on real
robots. Murphy, who is well known for her classroom teaching, conveys the
intellectual adventure of mastering complex theoretical and technical
material.
Robin R. Murphy is Associate Professor in the Department of Computer
Science and Engineering, and in the Department of Psychology, at the
University of South Florida, Tampa.
8 x 9, 400 pp., 100 illus., cloth ISBN 0-262-13383-0
Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents series
A Bradford Book
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