Chapter 1
Fundamentals of Robotics
Learning Objectives
By the end of this chapter, you will be able to:
- Describe important events in the history of robotics
- Explain the importance of using artificial intelligence, artificial vision and natural language processing
- Classify a robot depending on its goal or function
- Identify the parts of a robot
- Estimate a robot’s position using odometry
This chapter covers the brief history of robotics, classifies different types of robots and its hardware, and explains a way to find a robot's position using odometry.
Introduction
The robotics sector represents the present and the future of humanity. Currently, there are robots in the industrial sector, in research laboratories, in universities, and even ...
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