Artificial Intelligence for Robotics

Foundation for Advanced Robotics and AI

This book is for readers who have already begun a journey learning about robotics and wish to progress to a more advanced level of capability by adding AI behaviors to your robot, unmanned vehicle, or self-driving car. You may have already made a robot for yourself out of standard parts, and have a robot that can drive around, perhaps make a map, and avoid obstacles with some basic sensors. The question then is: what comes next?

The basic difference between what we will call an AI robot and a more normal robot is the ability of the robot and its software to make decisions, and learn and adapt to its environment based on data from its sensors. To be a bit more specific, we are leaving the world of deterministic ...