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Contents
Types of bugs................................................................................................. 272
Summary ....................................................................................................... 274
Chapter 18: “What the Hell Happened?” ................................................ 275
Logging ......................................................................................................... 278
Data mining using relational techniques ..................................................... 282
Incident reporting ........................................................................................ 290
Summary ....................................................................................................... 294
Chapter 19: The Industry, Its Past and Its Future .................................... 295
The history of robotics ................................................................................. 296
The mobile robotics industry ....................................................................... 300
Industry segmentation for autonomous mobile robots ................................ 302
The government sector ................................................................................ 309
Why aren’t the robots here yet? ................................................................... 318
The future ..................................................................................................... 321
Appendix: Referenced Laws and Formulas ............................................... 325
Law of Sines and Law of Cosines ................................................................. 325
Simple 2D Vector Addition ......................................................................... 326
Linear Regression ......................................................................................... 327
About the Author ................................................................................... 329
Index....................................................................................................... 331
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