Artificial Intelligence for Robotics

What you will learn

Not all of the chapters or topic in this book are considered classical AI approaches, but they do represent different ways of approaching machine learning and decision-making problems.

Building a firm foundation for robot control by understanding control theory and timing. We will be using a soft real-time control scheme with what I call a frame-based control loop. This technique has a fancy technical name – rate monotonic scheduling—but I think you will find the concept fairly intuitive and easy to understand.

At the most basic level, AI is a way for the robot to make decisions about its actions. We will introduce a model for decision making that comes from the US Air Force, called the OODA (Observe- Orient-Decide- Act) ...