This book includes a collection of chapters on the state of art in the area of intelligent machines. This research would provide a sound basis to make autonomous systems human-like.

The contributions include:

• An introduction to intelligent machines
• Supervisory control of multiple UAVs
• Intelligent autonomous UAV task allocation
• UAV path planning
• Dynamic path planning
• Routing in UAVS
• State estimation of micro air vehicles
• Architecture for soccer playing robots

• Robot perception Application engineers, scientists and researchers will find this book useful.

  Inhalt

  Intelligent Machines: An Introduction.- Predicting Operator Capacity for Supervisory Control of Multiple UAVs.- Team, Game, and Negotiation based Intelligent Autonomous UAV Task Allocation for Wide Area Applications.- UAV Path Planning Using Evolutionary Algorithms.- Evolution-based Dynamic Path Planning for Autonomous Vehicles.- Algorithms for Routing Problems Involving UAVs.- State Estimation for Micro Air Vehicles.- Evolutionary Design of a Control Architecture for Soccer-Playing Robots.- Toward Robot Perception through Omnidirectional Vision.