Wheeled Mobile Robotics

Wheeled Mobile Robotics: From Fundamentals Towards Autonomous Systemscovers the main topics from the wide area of mobile robotics, explaining all applied theory and application. The book gives the reader a good foundation, enabling them to continue to more advanced topics. Several examples are included for better understanding, many of them accompanied by short MATLAB® script code making it easy to reuse in practical work. The book includes several examples of discussed methods and projects for wheeled mobile robots and some advanced methods for their control and localization. It is an ideal resource for those seeking an understanding of robotics, mechanics, and control, and for engineers and researchers in industrial and other specialized research institutions in the field of wheeled mobile robotics. Beginners with basic math knowledge will benefit from the examples, and engineers with an understanding of basic system theory and control will find it easy to follow the more demanding fundamental parts and advanced methods explained. - Offers comprehensive coverage of the essentials of the field that are suitable for both academics and practitioners - Includes several examples of the application of algorithms in simulations and real laboratory projects - Presents foundation in mobile robotics theory before continuing with more advanced topics - Self-sufficient to beginner readers, covering all important topics in the mobile robotics field - Contains specific topics on modeling, control, sensing, path planning, localization, design architectures, and multi-agent systems

Gregor Klancar received B.Sc. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia in 1999 and 2003 respectively. He is currently employed as an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the University of Ljubljana. He is lecturing the autonomous mobile systems at graduate and advanced control of autonomous systems at postgraduate study. His research work mainly focuses on mobile robotics area, on the area of control and also on supervision of multiagent systems and on modelling and control of dynamical systems. His work on wheeled and satellite mobile robotics area includes motion control, trajectory tracking, localization, agent-based behaviour systems and strategies for enabling cooperative behaviours of agents in some group mission. In 1999 he received the Pre?eren award for his diploma thesis and in 2004 he received the Ph.D. award of Prof. Dr. Vratislav Bedjanic for his doctoral dissertation. As a member of the faculty's robot soccer team he has achieved many successes, cups and awards at the European and World competitions and championships in robot soccer from the area of mobile robotics. He is the author of 30 papers in scientific journals (among those 23 in journals with impact factor), 7 book chapters in the edited books and 85 conference papers. He is also mentor at 7 Msc thesis and 40 diploma works. He is a member of the IFAC technical committees TC 7.5 (Intelligent Autonomous Vehicles) and Slovenian Modelling and Simulation society and Automation Society of Slovenia.