Principles of Probabilistic Robotics: Bayesian Filtering, Localization and Mapping for Autonomous Machines. - Brossura

Reed, Lincoln

Brossura

ISBN 13: 9798160929538

Casa editrice: Independently published, 2026

Riassunto

Every autonomous robot operates in a world it can never fully see. Sensors lie. Motors drift. Maps are incomplete. The robots that succeed anyway aren't the ones that eliminate uncertainty — they're the ones engineered to reason about it correctly. This book shows you how.

Principles of Probabilistic Robotics is a rigorous, ground-up treatment of the mathematical framework behind modern autonomy — the same reasoning that powers self-driving vehicles, warehouse fleets, planetary rovers, and service robots navigating unpredictable, real-world environments. Written for upper-level undergraduates, graduate students, and working engineers, it builds one continuous, unified toolkit — not a disconnected grab-bag of algorithms — from the ground up.

What sets this book apart:

• Nothing is handed to you unexplained. Every algorithm is derived, not just stated — so you understand why it works, not just how to call it.
• Dozens of fully worked numerical examples, solved by hand, make the mathematics concrete enough to implement with real confidence.
• A genuinely cumulative structure — each chapter builds directly on the last, so filtering, localization, mapping, and SLAM emerge as one coherent argument rather than isolated topics.
• Practice problems with complete solutions throughout, built for readers who want to test their understanding, not just skim it.

Whether you're building your first state estimator, searching for a dependable graduate-level reference, or shipping autonomy software that has to work outside the lab, this book gives you the reasoning behind the systems — the part no tutorial or documentation page will teach you.

Uncertainty isn't optional. Mastering it is. Get your copy today and start building robots that know what they don't know.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Independently published
• Data di pubblicazione: 2026
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 13: 9798160929538
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 364
• Contatto del produttore: Printed by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.it/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Lussemburgo