PhD Work - Book Review: Robotics, Vision and Control

Abstract

The book describes the concepts of robotics and their practical application, and the concepts of computer vision applied to robotics, which involves the application of computational algorithms to data. The author has created two MATLAB® toolboxes, and explains in the book the concepts of robotics, using MATLAB®  code in all situations, thus making the book an excellent material for the study and practice of robotics. The topics covered are oriented by real problems, with many illustrative images, which makes reading accessible and didactic. Robotics and machine vision involve the application of computational techniques and algorithms for data analysis. Advances in the use of robots and machine vision in all areas of society continue to be driven by more efficient methods of processing data. The best performance doesn’t always come only from the best machines. The use of new algorithms, combined with greater computational power and cloud computing techniques, led us to the almost omnipresent participation of robots in our daily lives. It is in industry, medicine, air transport, autonomous vehicles, mining and space exploration. This article is a literature review based on Peter Corke’s book, and the application of his techniques with a use case in autonomous vehicles.

Author: Manuel Robalinho

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