Review of Artificial Intelligence and Mobile Robotics: Case Studies of Successful Robot Systems

Today, mobile robotics is an increasingly important bridge between the two areas. It is advancing the theory and practice of cooperative cognition, perception, and action and serving to reunite planning techniques with sensing and real-world performance. Further, developments in mobile robotics can have important practical economic and military consequences. For some time now, amateurs, hobbyists, students, and researchers have had access to how-to books on the low-level mechanical and electronic aspects of mobile-robot construction (Everett 1995; McComb 1987). The famous Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) 6.270 robot-building course has contributed course notes and hardware kits that are now available commercially and in the form of an influential book (Jones 1998; Jones and Flynn 1993).