This book is a state of the art resource that robotics researchers and engineers can use to make their robots and autonomous vehicles smarter. Readers will be able to describe metareasoning, select an appropriate metareasoning approach, and synthesize metareasoning policies. Metareasoning for Robots adopts a systems engineering perspective in which metareasoning is an approach that can improve the overall robot or autonomous system, not just one component or subsystem. This book introduces key concepts, discusses design options for metareasoning approaches and policies, and presents approaches for testing and evaluation of metareasoning policies. After considering the conceptual design phase, it discusses how to implement metareasoning in the robot's software architecture and how to synthesize metareasoning policies. Every chapter has references to valuable works on robotics and metareasoning, and the book uses examples from the author's own research andfrom other research groups to illustrate these ideas. In addition, this book provides links to books and papers for readers who wish to investigate these topics further.

Introduces key concepts, discusses design options for metareasoning approaches and policies Features design guidelines and helpful examples that researchers and engineers can use to make their robots smarter Adopts a systems engineering perspective in which metareasoning can improve the overall robot or autonomous system

Autorentext
Jeffrey W. Herrmann, Ph.D., is the St. Abbo of Fleury Chair in Engineering and an Ordinary Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Catholic University of America. He earned earned his B.S. in Applied Mathematics from Georgia Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Florida, as a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. Dr. Herrmann was previously a faculty member of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Institute for Systems Research at the University of Maryland. He is a member of the Society of Catholic Scientists, ASME, and IISE.

Klappentext

This book is a state of the art resource that robotics researchers and engineers can use to make their robots and autonomous vehicles smarter. Readers will be able to describe metareasoning, select an appropriate metareasoning approach, and synthesize metareasoning policies. Metareasoning for Robots adopts a systems engineering perspective in which metareasoning is an approach that can improve the overall robot or autonomous system, not just one component or subsystem. This book introduces key concepts, discusses design options for metareasoning approaches and policies, and presents approaches for testing and evaluation of metareasoning policies. After considering the conceptual design phase, it discusses how to implement metareasoning in the robot's software architecture and how to synthesize metareasoning policies. Every chapter has references to valuable works on robotics and metareasoning, and the book uses examples from the author's own research andfrom other research groups to illustrate these ideas. In addition, this book provides links to books and papers for readers who wish to investigate these topics further.

Inhalt
Introduction to Metareasoning.- Metareasoning Design Options.- Implementing Metareasoning.- Synthesizing Metareasoning Policies.- Testing Metareasoning Policies.