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Autonomous Robot Vehicles

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  • © 1990

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Editors:
  1. Ingemar J. Cox

    1. NEC Research Institute, Princeton, USA

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  2. Gordon T. Wilfong

    1. AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, USA

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Table of contents (33 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvi
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  2. Guidance: Kinematics, Control, and Trajectory Generation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-4
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    2. On the Kinematics of Wheeled Mobile Robots

      • J. C. Alexander, J. H. Maddocks
      Pages 5-24

    3. Kinematic Modeling for Feedback Control of an Omnidirectional Wheeled Mobile Robot

      • Patrick F. Muir, Charles P. Neuman
      Pages 25-31

    4. An Automatic Guidance System of a Self-Controlled Vehicle

      • Takero Hongo, Hideo Arakawa, Gunji Sugimoto, Koichi Tange, Yuzo Yamamoto
      Pages 32-37

    5. Local Path Control for an Autonomous Vehicle

      • Winston L. Nelson, Ingemar J. Cox
      Pages 38-44

    6. Running With Symmetry

      • Marc H. Raibert
      Pages 45-61

    7. Smooth Local Path Planning for Autonomous Vehicles

      • Yutaka Kanayama, Bruce I. Hartman
      Pages 62-67

  3. Sensors

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 69-72
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    2. Sensor Models and Multisensor Integration

      • Hugh F. Durrant-Whyte
      Pages 73-89

    3. Location Estimation and Uncertainty Analysis for Mobile Robots

      • C. Ming Wang
      Pages 90-95

    4. Inertial Navigation

      • Morris M. Kuritsky, Murray S. Goldstein
      Pages 96-116

    5. Continuous transmission FM sonar with one octave bandwidth and no blind time

      • P. T. Gough, A. de Roos, M. J. Cusdin
      Pages 117-121

    6. An Optical Rangefinder for Autonomous Robot Cart Navigation

      • Gabriel L. Miller, Eric R. Wagner
      Pages 122-134

    7. Error Modeling in Stereo Navigation

      • Larry Matthies, Steven A. Shafer
      Pages 135-144

  4. Navigation: Position and Course Estimation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 145-150
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    2. Statistical Theory of Passive Location Systems

      • Don J. Torrieri
      Pages 151-166

    3. Estimating Uncertain Spatial Relationships in Robotics

      • Randall Smith, Matthew Self, Peter Cheeseman
      Pages 167-193

    4. The Kalman Filter: An Introduction to Concepts

      • Peter S. Maybeck
      Pages 194-204

    5. Maintaining Representations of the Environment of a Mobile Robot

      • Nicholas Ayache, Olivier D. Faugeras
      Pages 205-220
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Autonomous robot vehicles are vehicles capable of intelligent motion and action without requiring either a guide or teleoperator control. The recent surge of interest in this subject will grow even grow further as their potential applications increase. Autonomous vehicles are currently being studied for use as reconnaissance/exploratory vehicles for planetary exploration, undersea, land and air environments, remote repair and maintenance, material handling systems for offices and factories, and even intelligent wheelchairs for the disabled. This reference is the first to deal directly with the unique and fundamental problems and recent progress associated with autonomous vehicles. The editors have assembled and combined significant material from a multitude of sources, and, in effect, now conviniently provide a coherent organization to a previously scattered and ill-defined field.

Editors and Affiliations

  • NEC Research Institute, Princeton, USA

    Ingemar J. Cox

  • AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, USA

    Gordon T. Wilfong

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