Scientific Methods in Mobile Robotics

Dr Ulrich Nehmzow is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Essex, UK. The Robotics group in this department is the largest in the UK and considered to be one of the world's leading in this subject. Dr Nehmzow is the publisher of the SV London textbook, Mobile Robotics: A Practical Introduction, now in its second edition (1-85233-726-5, 2003). He has over ten years' experience in mobile robotics and is considered to be an authoritative researcher in the experimental end of the subject. The author has recently commenced a one-year research sabbatical at the University of Wollongong, Australia. He aims to use some of this year writing his book.

• A Brief Introduction to Mobile Robotics.- to Scientific Methods in Mobile Robotics.- Statistical Tools for Describing Experimental Data.- Dynamical Systems Theory and Agent Behaviour.- Analysis of Agent Behaviour — Case Studies.- Computer Modelling of Robot-Environment Interaction.- Conclusion.

This is the first book to apply advanced scientific methods to the growing field of mobile robots. It will be bought by researchers lecturers in robotics, artificial intelligence and cognitive science and post-graduates in this subject.