Introduction to AI robotics
by Robin Murphy
Murphy's foundational textbook on AI robotics, covering the hierarchical, reactive, and hybrid paradigms that organize intelligence in robots.
"A robot is not a machine that thinks. It is a machine that acts in the world — and that changes everything.".
Editorial Summary
This textbook offers a comprehensive survey of artificial intelligence algorithms and programming organization for robot systems, enabling readers to design and evaluate artificially intelligent robots for sensing, acting, planning, and learning applications. Robin R. Murphy contrasts AI and engineering approaches while introducing the three paradigms of AI robotics: hierarchical, reactive, and hybrid deliberative/reactive. The Texas A&M University Raytheon Professor and founding director of the Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue includes case studies showing how concepts were implemented on real robots, making this distinct from purely theoretical AI texts. The book covers locomotion, simultaneous localization and mapping, human-robot interaction, machine learning, and ethics, establishing it as a foundational resource for understanding how artificial intelligence principles apply to autonomous robotic systems.
Perspective
"Essential reading for robotics engineers and computer science students who need to understand how AI algorithms translate into autonomous robot behavior, especially as modern systems like Boston Dynamics' robots and autonomous vehicles demonstrate the real-world applications of Murphy's paradigms. Anyone working on embodied AI systems—from warehouse automation to search-and-rescue robots—will benefit from Murphy's systematic approach to organizing intelligence in physical agents."
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