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This chapter introduces the technical terms used in this book, gives an overview of early work in artificial intelligence and robotics, and discusses two fundamental approaches to robot control, the functional approach and the behaviour-based approach.
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Further Reading
Early Mobile Robots
N.J. Nilsson, A Mobile Automation: An Application of Artificial Intelligence Techniques, Proc. IJCAI, Washington DC, 1969.
N.J. Nilsson (ed.), SHAKEY the RobotTechnical Note 323 Artificial Intelligence Center Menlo Park, SRI International, 1984.
A.M. Thompson, The Navigation System of the JPL Robot, Proceedings Fifth IJCAI Cambridge MA, 1977.
Hans Moravec, Visual Mapping by a Robot RoverProc. 6th IJCAI Tokyo, 1979.
Hans Moravec, Robot Rover Visual Navigation, UMI Research Press, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1981.
Hans Moravec, The CMU Rover, Proceedings AAAI 82 Pittsburgh, 1982.
Hans Moravec, The Stanford Cart and the CMU Rover, Proceedings of the IEEE Vol. 71, No. 7, pp. 872–884, 1983.
G. Giralt, R.P. Sobek and R. Chatila, A Multi-Level Planning and Navigation System for a Mobile Robot — A First Approach to HILARE, Proc. 6th IJCAI Tokyo, 1979.
G. Giralt, Mobile Robots, in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, NASA ASI, Serie F(1), 1984.
G. Giralt, R. Alami, R. Chatila and P. Freedman, Remote Operated Autonomous Robots, Proceedings of the SPIE — The International Society for Optical Engineering Vol. 1571, pp. 416–427, 1991.
S. Shafer, A. Stenz and C. Thorpe, An Architecture for Sensor Fusion in a Mobile RobotProc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 1986.
Chuck Thorpe, Outdoor Visual Navigation for Autonomous Robots, Proc. International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems 2, Vol. 2, Amsterdam, 1989.
Chuck Thorpe, et al. Vision and Navigation for the Carnegie-Mellon Navlab, in: S.S. Iyengar and A. Elfes (eds.), Autonomous Mobile Robots: Central Planning and Architecture Vol. 2, Los Alamitos CA, 1991.
Chuck Thorpe, Outdoor Visual Navigation for Autonomous Robots, J. Robotics and Autonomous Systems Vol. 7, Issue 2–3, pp. 2–3, 1991.
M.P. Georgeff et al., Reasoning and Planning in Dynamic Domains: An experiment with a Mobile Robot, TR 380 Artificial Intelligence Center, SRI International, Menlo Park CA, 1987.
T. Tsubouchy and S. Yuta, Map Assisted Vision System of Mobile Robots for Reckoning in a Building Environment, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation Raleigh NC, 1987.
T. Tsubouchy and S. Yuta, The Map Assisted Mobile Robot’s Vision System — An Experiment on Real Time Environment Recognition, Proc. IEEE RSJ International Workshop on Intelligent Robots and Systems Japan, 1988.
Ulrich Rembold, The Karlsruhe Autonomous Mobile Assembly Robot, Proc. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation Philadelphia PA, 1988.
Control Paradigms
C. Malcolm, T. Smithers & J. Hallam, An Emerging Paradigm in Robot Architecture, Proc. International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems 2, Amsterdam, 1989.
A. Elfes and S.N. Talukdar, A Distributed Control System for the CMU Rover, Proceedings Eighth IJCAI Karlsruhe, 1983.
Rodney Brooks, A Robust Layered Control System for a Mobile Robot, IEEE Journal of Robotics and Automation RA-2, No. 1, April 1986.
Rodney Brooks et al., A Mobile Robot with Onboard Parallel Processor and Large Workspace Arm, Proc. AAAI 86 Philadelphia PA, 1986.
M.K. Habib, S. Suzuki, S. Yuta and J. Iijima, A New Programming Approach to Describe the Sensor Based Real Time Action of Autonomous Robots, Robots: Coming of Age, Proceedings of the International Symposium and Exposition on Robots (designated the 19th ISIR by the International Federation of Robotics) pp. 1010–21, 1988.
A. Hörmann, W. Meier and J. Schloen, A Control Architecture for an Advanced Fault-Tolerant Robot SystemJ. Robotics and Autonomous Systems Vol. 7, Issue 2–3, pp. 2–3
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Nehmzow, U. (2003). Foundations. In: Mobile Robotics: A Practical Introduction. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0025-6_2
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