Robotics, Vision and Control: Fundamental Algorithms in Python (3 ed)

Robotics, Vision and Control: Fundamental Algorithms in Python (Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics Book 146) 3rd Edition

This textbook provides a comprehensive but tutorial introduction to robotics, computer vision, and control. It is written in a light but informative conversational style, weaving text, figures, mathematics, and lines of code into a narrative that covers robotics and computer vision—separately and together as robotic vision. Over 1600 code examples show how complex problems can be decomposed and solved using just a few simple lines of code.

This edition is based on Python, accompanied by fully open-source, Python-based toolboxes for robotics and machine vision. The new toolboxes enable the reader to easily bring the algorithmic concepts into practice and work with real, non-trivial problems on a broad range of computing platforms. For the beginning student, the book makes the algorithms accessible, the Toolbox code can be read to gain understanding, and the examples illustrate how it can be used. The code can also be the starting point for new work for practitioners, students, or researchers by writing programs based on Toolbox functions or modifying the Toolbox code itself.