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Artificial Intelligence for Robotics

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Published in Aug 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788835442
Length 344 pages
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Francis X. Govers III is an Associate Technical Fellow for Autonomy at Bell Textron, and chairman of the Textron Autonomy Council. He is the designer of over 30 unmanned vehicles and robots for land, sea, air, and space, including RAMSEE, the autonomous security guard robot. Francis helped lead the design of the International Space Station, the F-35 JSF Fighter, the US Army Future Combat Systems, and telemetry systems for NASCAR and IndyCar. He is an engineer, pilot, author, musician, artist, and maker. He received five outstanding achievement awards from NASA and recognition from Scientific American for World Changing Ideas. He has a Master of Science degree from Brandeis University and is a veteran of the US Air Force.
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Preface 1. Foundation for Advanced Robotics and AI 2. Setting Up Your Robot FREE CHAPTER 3. A Concept for a Practical Robot Design Process 4. Object Recognition Using Neural Networks and Supervised Learning 5. Picking up the Toys 6. Teaching a Robot to Listen 7. Avoiding the Stairs 8. Putting Things Away 9. Giving the Robot an Artificial Personality 10. Conclusions and Reflections 11. Assessments 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

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  1. Name three types of robot sensors.
  2. What does the acronym PWM stand for?
  3. What is analog-to-digital conversion? What goes in and what comes out?
  4. Who invented the subsumption architecture?
  5. Compare my diagram of the three-layer subsumption architecture to the Three Laws of Robotics postulated by Isaac Asimov. Is there a correlation? Why is there one, or why not?
  6. Do you think I should have given our robot project – TinMan – a name? Do you name your robots individually, or by model?
  7. What is the most important environment variable in ROS?
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Francis X. Govers III is an Associate Technical Fellow for Autonomy at Bell Textron, and chairman of the Textron Autonomy Council. He is the designer of over 30 unmanned vehicles and robots for land, sea, air, and space, including RAMSEE, the autonomous security guard robot. Francis helped lead the design of the International Space Station, the F-35 JSF Fighter, the US Army Future Combat Systems, and telemetry systems for NASCAR and IndyCar. He is an engineer, pilot, author, musician, artist, and maker. He received five outstanding achievement awards from NASA and recognition from Scientific American for World Changing Ideas. He has a Master of Science degree from Brandeis University and is a veteran of the US Air Force.
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