This book presents the concept of cognition in a clear, lucid and highly comprehensive style. It provides an in-depth analysis of mathematical models, algorithms and demonstrates their application with the real life experiment. The text covers soft computing tools and techniques with fundamentals and also addresses the experimental details for robot programming and simulation for 3D perception, high-level image processing and machine learning.

Autorentext

The author has completed his B.E. in Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering and M.E. in Communication System Engineering in 1989 and 1993 respectively from Sambalpur University and awarded with Ph. D. from Jadavpur University, India in 1999. Presently he is the Head of the department of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering, University College of Engineering, Burla, India. He was the Principal Investigator of the Thrust Area Project Building Cognition of Intelligent Robot of Govt. Of India sponsered by All India Council for Technical Education, New Delhi, India and presently he is supervising a Major Research Project Machine Learning & Perception by Cognitive Methods sponsered by University Grant Commission of India. He has also sucessfuly completed few projects from Govt. and Private Agencies in the area of Machine Intelligence & Soft Computing.

Inhalt

Cybernetic View of Robot Cognition and Perception.- Map Building.- Path Planning.- Navigation Using a Genetic Algorithm.- Robot Programming Packages.- Robot Parameter Display.- Program for BotSpeak.- Gripper Control Program.- Program for Sonar Reading Display.- Program for Wandering Within the Workspace.- Program for Tele-operation.- A Complete Program for Autonomous Navigation.- Imaging Geometry.- Image Capture Program.- Building 3D Perception Using a Kalman Filter.- Program for 3D Perception.- Perceptions of Non-planar Surfaces.- Intelligent Garbage Collection.