Category Archives: Robotics

Computational Intelligence: Methods and Techniques

This quite simply superb book focuses on various techniques of computational intelligence, both single ones and those which form hybrid methods. These techniques are today commonly applied to issues of artificial intelligence. The book presents methods of knowledge representation using … Continue reading

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Developments and Challenges for Autonomous Unmanned Vehicles: A Compendium (Intelligent Systems Reference Library)

It is widely anticipated that autonomous vehicles will have a transformational impact on military forces and will play a key role in many future force structures. As a result, many tasks have already been identified that unmanned systems could undertake … Continue reading

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Computational Intelligence in Optimization: Applications and Implementations (Adaptation, Learning, and Optimization)

This volume presents a collection of recent studies covering the spectrum of computational intelligence applications with emphasis on their application to challenging real-world problems. Topics covered include: Intelligent agent-based algorithms, Hybrid intelligent systems, Cognitive and evolutionary robotics, Knowledge-Based Engineering, fuzzy … Continue reading

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Software Engineering for Experimental Robotics (Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics)

This book reports on the concepts and ideas discussed at the well attended ICRA2005 Workshop on “Principles and Practice of Software Development in Robotics”, held in Barcelona, Spain, April 18 2005. It collects contributions that describe the state of the … Continue reading

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The Allure of Machinic Life: Cybernetics, Artificial Life, and the New AI (Bradford Books)

In The Allure of Machinic Life, John Johnston examines new forms of nascent life that emerge through technical interactions within human-constructed environments—”machinic life”—in the sciences of cybernetics, artificial life, and artificial intelligence. With the development of such research initiatives as … Continue reading

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Space-Time Continuous Models of Swarm Robotic Systems: Supporting Global-to-Local Programming (Cognitive Systems Monographs)

In this book, a generic model in as far as possible mathematical closed-formis developed that predicts the behavior of large self-organizing robot groups (robot swarms) based on their control algorithm. In addition, an extensive subsumption of the relatively young and … Continue reading

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Introduction to Discrete Event Systems

Introduction to Discrete Event Systems is a comprehensive introduction to the field of discrete event systems, offering a breadth of coverage that makes the material accessible to readers of varied backgrounds. The book emphasizes a unified modeling framework that transcends … Continue reading

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Intelligent Data Mining: Techniques and Applications (Studies in Computational Intelligence)

“Intelligent Data Mining – Techniques and Applications” is an organized edited collection of contributed chapters covering basic knowledge for intelligent systems and data mining, applications in economic and management, industrial engineering and other related industrial applications. The main objective of … Continue reading

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Self-Dual Codes and Invariant Theory (Algorithms and Computation in Mathematics)

One of the most remarkable and beautiful theorems in coding theory is Gleason’s 1970 theorem about the weight enumerators of self-dual codes and their connections with invariant theory, which has inspired hundreds of papers about generalizations and applications of this … Continue reading

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Introduction to Evolutionary Algorithms (Decision Engineering)

Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are becoming increasingly attractive for researchers from various disciplines, such as operations research, computer science, industrial engineering, electrical engineering, social science, economics, etc. This book presents an insightful, comprehensive, and up-to-date treatment of EAs, such as genetic … Continue reading

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