Ming Xie. Fundamentals of Robotics: Linking Perception to Action

World Scientific, 2003. — 716 p. — (Machine Perception and Artificial Intelligence, vol. 54)Tomorrow's robots should enhance lives in ways we never dreamed possible, and are set to be the most exciting and revolutionary things to happen to the world since the invention of the automobile. It will change the way we work, play, think and live. This handbook is designed to guide the curious beginner from yesterday to tomorrow. It covers practical knowledge in understanding, developing and using robots as versatile equipment to automate a variety of industrial processes or tasks. It also discusses the possibilities we can look forward to when we are capable of creating a vision-guided, learning machine.