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Unmanned Systems Of World Wars I And Ii

by H. R. Everett

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 The first comprehensive technical history of air, land, sea, and underwater unmanned systems, by a distinguished U.S. Navy roboticist.Military drones have recently been hailed as a revolutionary new technology that will forever change the conduct of war. And yet the United States and other countries have been deploying such unmanned military systems for more than a century. Written by a renowned authority in the field, this book documents the forgotten legacy of these pioneering efforts, offering the first comprehensive historical and technical accounting of unmanned air, land, sea, and underwater systems. Focusing on examples introduced during the two world wars, H. R. Everett meticulously traces their development from the mid-nineteenth century to the early Cold War. A pioneering Navy roboticist, Everett not only describes these systems in detail but also reverse-engineers the designs in order to explain how they operated in real-world conditions of the time. More than 500 illustrations—photographs, drawings, and plans, many of them never before published—accompany the text.Everett covers the evolution of early wire-guided submersibles, tracing the development of power, propulsion, communication, and control; radio-controlled surface craft, deployed by both Germany and Great Britain in World War I; radio-controlled submersibles; radio-controlled aircraft, including the TDR-1 assault drone project in World War II—which laid the groundwork for subsequent highly classified drone programs; and remote-controlled ground vehicles, including the Wehrmacht''s Goliath and Borgward demolition carriers.
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Multiagent Systems

185,50€ + 10% CARD

 This is the first comprehensive introduction to multiagent systems and contemporary distributed artificial intelligence that is suitable as a textbook.
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Layered Learning In Multiagent Systems - A Winning Approach To Robotic Soccer

by Peter Stone

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 This book looks at multiagent systems that consist of teams of autonomous agents acting in real-time, noisy, collaborative, and adversarial environments.
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Bio-Inspired Artificial Intelligence - Theories, Methods, And Technologies

by Claudio Mattiussi e Dario Floreano

212,00€ + 10% CARD

 New approaches to artificial intelligence spring from the idea that intelligence emerges as much from cells, bodies, and societies as it does from evolution, development, and learning. This book offers an introduction to the field of biologically inspired artificial intelligence that can be used as an upper-level text or as a reference.
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Robot Shaping - An Experiment In Behavior Engineering

by Marco Colombetti e Marco Dorigo

90,10€ + 10% CARD

 This book is about designing and building learning autonomous robots. The term "shaping" comes from experimental psychology, where it describes the incremental training of animals. The authors propose a new engineering discipline, "behaviour engineering," for this purpose.
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Behavior-Based Robotics

by Ronald C. Arkin

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 This text introduces the principles, design and practice of intelligent behaviour-based autonomous robotics systems. It refers to actual implemented robots and includes many pictures and descriptions of hardware.
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Evolutionary Robotics - The Biology, Intelligence, And Technology Of Self-Organizing Machines

by Dario Floreano e Stefano Nolfi

90,10€ + 10% CARD

 Evolutionary robotics is a new technique for the automatic creation of autonomous robots. Inspired by the Darwinian principle of selective reproduction of the fittest, it views robots as autonomous artificial organisms that develop their own skills in close interaction with the environment and without human intervention. Drawing heavily on biology and ethology, it uses the tools of neural networks, genetic algorithms, dynamic systems, and biomorphic engineering. The resulting robots share with simple biological systems the characteristics of robustness, simplicity, small size, flexibility, and modularity.In evolutionary robotics, an initial population of artificial chromosomes, each encoding the control system of a robot, is randomly created and put into the environment. Each robot is then free to act (move, look around, manipulate) according to its genetically specified controller while its performance on various tasks is automatically evaluated. The fittest robots then "reproduce" by swapping parts of their genetic material with small random mutations. The process is repeated until the "birth" of a robot that satisfies the performance criteria.This book describes the basic concepts and methodologies of evolutionary robotics and the results achieved so far. An important feature is the clear presentation of a set of empirical experiments of increasing complexity. Software with a graphic interface, freely available on a Web page, will allow the reader to replicate and vary (in simulation and on real robots) most of the experiments.
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Robotics Primer

by Maja J. Mataric

132,50€ + 10% CARD

 A broadly accessible introduction to robotics that spans the most basic concepts and the most novel applications; for students, teachers, and hobbyists.The Robotics Primer offers a broadly accessible introduction to robotics for students at pre-university and university levels, robot hobbyists, and anyone interested in this burgeoning field. The text takes the reader from the most basic concepts (including perception and movement) to the most novel and sophisticated applications and topics (humanoids, shape-shifting robots, space robotics), with an emphasis on what it takes to create autonomous intelligent robot behavior. The core concepts of robotics are carried through from fundamental definitions to more complex explanations, all presented in an engaging, conversational style that will appeal to readers of different backgrounds. The Robotics Primer covers such topics as the definition of robotics, the history of robotics ("Where do Robots Come From?"), robot components, locomotion, manipulation, sensors, control, control architectures, representation, behavior ("Making Your Robot Behave"), navigation, group robotics, learning, and the future of robotics (and its ethical implications). To encourage further engagement, experimentation, and course and lesson design, The Robotics Primer is accompanied by a free robot programming exercise workbook that implements many of the ideas on the book on iRobot platforms.The Robotics Primer is unique as a principled, pedagogical treatment of the topic that is accessible to a broad audience; the only prerequisites are curiosity and attention. It can be used effectively in an educational setting or more informally for self-instruction. The Robotics Primer is a springboard for readers of all backgrounds—including students taking robotics as an elective outside the major, graduate students preparing to specialize in robotics, and K-12 teachers who bring robotics into their classrooms.
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Disaster Robotics

by Robin R. Murphy

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 A comprehensive, authoritative, and accessible reference for disaster robotics that covers theory, specific deployments, and ground, air, and marine modalities. This book offers the definitive guide to the theory and practice of disaster robotics. It can serve as an introduction for researchers and technologists, a reference for emergency managers, and a textbook in field robotics. Written by a pioneering researcher in the field who has herself participated in fifteen deployments of robots in disaster response and recovery, the book covers theory and practice, the history of the field, and specific missions. After a broad overview of rescue robotics in the context of emergency informatics, the book provides a chronological summary and formal analysis of the thirty-four documented deployments of robots to disasters that include the 2001 collapse of the World Trade Center, Hurricane Katrina, the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami, and numerous mining accidents. It then examines disaster robotics in the typical robot modalities of ground, air, and marine, addressing such topics as robot types, missions and tasks, and selection heuristics for each modality. Finally, the book discusses types of fieldwork, providing practical advice on matters that include collecting data and collaborating with emergency professionals. The field of disaster robotics has lacked a comprehensive overview. This book by a leader in the field, offering a unique combination of the theoretical and the practical, fills the gap.
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Robot Ethics - The Ethical And Social Implications Of Robotics

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 Prominent experts from science and the humanities explore issues in robot ethics that range from sex to war. Robots today serve in many roles, from entertainer to educator to executioner. As robotics technology advances, ethical concerns become more pressing: Should robots be programmed to follow a code of ethics, if this is even possible? Are there risks in forming emotional bonds with robots? How might society—and ethics—change with robotics? This volume is the first book to bring together prominent scholars and experts from both science and the humanities to explore these and other questions in this emerging field.Starting with an overview of the issues and relevant ethical theories, the topics flow naturally from the possibility of programming robot ethics to the ethical use of military robots in war to legal and policy questions, including liability and privacy concerns. The contributors then turn to human-robot emotional relationships, examining the ethical implications of robots as sexual partners, caregivers, and servants. Finally, they explore the possibility that robots, whether biological-computational hybrids or pure machines, should be given rights or moral consideration.Ethics is often slow to catch up with technological developments. This authoritative and accessible volume fills a gap in both scholarly literature and policy discussion, offering an impressive collection of expert analyses of the most crucial topics in this increasingly important field.
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Game Theory And Behavior

by Andrea Robbett e Jeffrey Carpenter

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Neurorobotics - Connecting The Brain, Body, And Environment

by Jeffrey L. Krichmar e Tiffany J. Hwu

102,74€ + 10% CARD

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Learning For Adaptive And Reactive Robot Control - A Dynamical Systems Approach

by Aude Billard e Sina Mirrazavi

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The Developmental Organization Of Robot Behavior

by Roderic A. Grupen

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Cloud Empires - How Digital Platforms Are Overtaking The State And How We Can Regain Control

by Vili Lehdonvirta

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The Exquisite Machine - The New Science Of The Heart

by Sian E. Harding

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The Great Easter - Ambulation

by Jacques Besse e Keith Harris

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On The Trail Of Blackbody Radiation - Max Planck And The Physics Of His Era

by Don S. Lemons e William R. Shanahan

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Curious Minds - The Power Of Connection

by Dani S. Bassett e Perry Zurn

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A World In A Shell - Snail Stories For A Time Of Extinctions

by Thom Van Dooren

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Seven Sublimes

by David E. Nye

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Cognitive Robotics

by Angelo Cangelosi e Minoru Asada

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The Work Of The Future

by David A. Mindell e David H. Autor

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Probabilistic Robotics

by Dieter (Associate Professor, University Of Washington) Fox, Sebastian (Stanford University) Thrun e Wolfram (Professor, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg) Burgard

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