A Robot Ping-Pong Player: Experiments in Real-Time Intelligent Control (Artificial Intelligence)
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| Rating | : | 4.43 (671 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0262011018 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 291 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-28 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Stephen Cann said Everything is illuminated. While building a machine to perform the very human activity of playing ping pong, Mr. Andersson has deconstructed and reconstructed the essence of all animal behavior.This book is a tour d'force. By starting with the one condition, that it must work, Mr. Andersson has detailed mechanisms which eerily parallel actual biological solutions to the same problems.Not for the faint of heart, this book requires a background in physics, math and a bit of the c computer language to read. Yet it is like reading a thriller as you turn the pages to see how he solves the next problem.I think this b
This tour de force in experimental robotics paves the way toward understanding dynamic environments in vision and robotics. Subjectively evaluating and improving its motion plan as the data arrives, it presages future robot systems with many joints and sensors that must do the same, no matter what the task.Contents: Introduction. Robot Ping-Pong Application. Russell L. Real-Time Vision System Robot Controller. Andersson is Member of Technical Staff, Robotics Systems Research Department, AT&T Bell Laboratories. It describes the first robot able to play, and even beat, human ping-pong players. The ping-pong machine incorporates sensor and processing techniques as well as the techniques needed to intelligently plan the robot's response in the fraction of a second available. Expert Controller. Constructing a machine to play ping-pong was proposed years ago as a particularly difficult problem requiring fast, accurate sensing and actuation, and the intelligence to play
"Andersson's book is a remarkable engineering accomplishment. it has been a long time since a robotics project has been the subject of so much excitement." - Tomas Lozano-Perez, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, MIT "This is a landmark work in robotics, representing one of the first attempts at a real-time system." - Richard P. Paul, University of Pennsylvania . it serves as a benchmark of what is possible today and it illustrates a number of important techniques
Russell L. Andersson is Member of Technical Staff, Robotics Systems Research Department, AT&T Bell Laboratories.