Introduction to Mobile Robot Control

Preface

Spyros. G. Tzafestas

Robotics has been a dominant contributor to the development of the human society over the years. It is a field that needs the synergy of a variety of scientific areas such as mechanical engineering, electrical-electronic engineering, control engineering, computer engineering, sensor engineering, and others. Robots and other automated machines have to live together with people. In this symbiosis, human needs and preferences should be predominantly respected, incorporated, and implemented. To this end, modern robots, especially wheeled or legged mobile robots, incorporate and realize in a purposeful and profitable way the perception–action cycle principle borrowed from biological systems and human cognitive and adaptation ...