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Book review Fundamentals of Robotics: Linking Perception to Action Ming Xie, World Scientific Publishing 2003 716pp. ISBN 981-238-313-1 (Hardcover) ISBN 981-238-335-2 (Paperback) £87 (Hardcover), £43 (Paperback) www.worldscibooks.com/compsci/5230.html
Keywords Robotics, Books
This book presents a thorough analytical approach to the linking of the reception of the external environment to the movements and actions of humanoid robots.
From the initial introductory chapter on robotics through to the final chapter on robot decision making systems, the approach is precise, analytical and indepth.
It is not a book for the faint hearted, and, whilst the section on tuning PID controllers does contain practical advice...