Overview
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Charles E. Thorpe
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Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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- Jill D. Crisman, Charles E. Thorpe
Pages 9-24
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- Karl Kluge, Charles E. Thorpe
Pages 25-38
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- Takahiro Fujimori, Takeo Kanade
Pages 39-81
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- Karl Kluge, Takeo Kanade, Hideki Kuga
Pages 95-115
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- Martial Hebert, InSo Kweon, Takeo Kanade
Pages 131-186
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- Yoshimasa Goto, Steven A. Shafer, Anthony Stentz
Pages 203-230
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- Kevin Dowling, Robert Guzikowski, Jim Ladd, Henning Pangels, Sanjiv Singh, William Whittaker
Pages 259-282
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- Dong Hun Shin, Sanjiv Singh
Pages 283-307
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- Jill D. Crisman, Jon A. Webb
Pages 309-347
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Back Matter
Pages 369-370
About this book
Mobile robots are playing an increasingly important role in our world. Remotely operated vehicles are in everyday use for hazardous tasks such as charting and cleaning up hazardous waste spills, construction work of tunnels and high rise buildings, and underwater inspection of oil drilling platforms in the ocean. A whole host of further applications, however, beckons robots capable of autonomous operation without or with very little intervention of human operators. Such robots of the future will explore distant planets, map the ocean floor, study the flow of pollutants and carbon dioxide through our atmosphere and oceans, work in underground mines, and perform other jobs we cannot even imagine; perhaps even drive our cars and walk our dogs. The biggest technical obstacles to building mobile robots are vision and navigation-enabling a robot to see the world around it, to plan and follow a safe path through its environment, and to execute its tasks. At the Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute, we are studying those problems both in isolation and by building complete systems. Since 1980, we have developed a series of small indoor mobile robots, some experimental, and others for practical applicationr Our outdoor autonomous mobile robot research started in 1984, navigating through the campus sidewalk network using a small outdoor vehicle called the Terregator. In 1985, with the advent of DARPA's Autonomous Land Vehicle Project, we constructed a computer controlled van with onboard sensors and researchers. In the fall of 1987, we began the development of a six-legged Planetary Rover.
Editors and Affiliations
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Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA
Charles E. Thorpe
