Wheeled Mobile Robotics From Fundamentals Towards Autonomous Systems

This is an introductory book on the subject of wheeled mobile robotics, covering all the essential knowledge and algorithms that are required in order to achieve autonomous capabilities of mobile robots. The book can serve both as a textbook for engineering students and a reference book for professionals in the field. As a textbook, it is suitable for courses in mobile robotics, especially if the courses’ main emphasis is on mobile robots with wheels. The book covers topics from mathematical modeling of motion, sensors and measurements, control algorithms, path planning, nondeterministic events, and state estimation. The theory is supported with examples that have solutions and excerpts of Matlab code listings in order to make it simple for the reader to try, evaluate, and modify the algorithms. Furthermore, at the end of the book some interesting practical projects are depicted, which can be used for laboratory practice or to consolidate the theory learned