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INTRODUCTION TO AI ROBOTICS
ROBIN R. MURPHY AI
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This text covers all the material needed to understand the principles behind the AI approach to robotics
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and to program an artificially intelligent robot for applications involving sensing, navigation, planning, and
uncertainty. Robin Murphy is extremely effective at combining theoretical and practical rigor with a light
narrative touch. In the overview, for example, she touches upon anthropomorphic robots from classic ROBO
films and science fiction stories before delving into the nuts and bolts of organizing intelligence in robots.
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Following the overview, Murphy contrasts AI and engineering approaches and discusses what she
calls the three paradigms of AI robotics: hierarchical, reactive, and hybrid deliberative/reactive. Later
chapters explore multiagent scenarios, navigation and path-planning for mobile robots, and the basics of TION
computer vision and range sensing. Each chapter includes objectives, review questions, and exercises.
Many chapters contain one or more case studies showing how the concepts were implemented on real TICS
robots. Murphy, who is well known for her classroom teaching, conveys the intellectual adventure of T
mastering complex theoretical and technical material. O
Robin R. Murphy is Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
and in the Department of Psychology, at the University of South Florida, Tampa.

Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents series
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