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These books explore how artificial intelligence can be applied to robot's perception, control and decision-making, in order to build robots with greater autonomy, adaptability and functionality.
1. AI Robotics: Ethics, Algorithms, and Technology of Artificial Intelligence-Powered Robots
2025 by Vinod Kumar Khanna
This book systematically describes the design of AI robots. The main components of an AI robot are: a central processing unit, graphics processing unit, or special processor to implement ML algorithms (TPU); a camera and LiDAR for vision; a microphone for hearing sounds and a speaker for speech; actuators, sensors, robotic arms with actuators (electric motors, hydraulic/pneumatic devices) to perform manual operations;interfaces (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth) for communication and a power source for energy. Sensors are similar to human sense organs - they allow the robot to perceive the environment, move without colliding with obstacles and perform various other tasks. AI processor acts as robot's brain. It can perform mathematical operations required for AI algorithms in robotics. Unlike traditional chips they have AI-oriented architectural features that allow to perform matrix multiplications significantly faster. These features include performing large numbers of calculations in parallel rather than sequentially, computing low-precision numbers while reducing the number of transistors, accelerating memory access and using programming languages specifically designed to efficiently translate AI computer code for execution on specialized chips.
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2. Artificial Intelligence for Robotics and Autonomous Systems Applications
2023 by Ahmad Taher Azar, Anis Koubaa
This book contains an interesting case study of using CNN for a wheeled mobile robot RAICO, that was programmed to move to a given target while avoiding obstacles. The main goal of the developers was to determine how large (in terms of the number of parameters and layers) CNN models should be to ensure high accuracy of image segmentation (and therefore of obstacle recognition) while maintaining the possibility of running the program on the resource-limited Nvidia Jetson Nano platform. They evaluated three CNN models with different computational complexity, trained on standard datasets and tested on RAICO. The results showed that the best model (RN_8000) in terms of accuracy is the one where the majority of parameters are concentrated in the first layers. Also, the DL system was used to generate a semantic map of the environment (during several attempts to pass different routes in the same space). This was done for optimization, so that after receiving a high-level task, the mobile robot would perform preliminary route planning in order to reach the goal more safely and efficiently. Of course, new obstacles could appear in the process of passing a new route and the system had avoid them, but the semantic map made the new route safer routes.
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3. AI and IoT-Based Intelligent Automation in Robotics
2021 by Ashutosh Kumar Dubey, Abhishek Kumar, S. Rakesh Kumar, N. Gayathri, Prasenjit Das
This book in particular tells the story of the emergence of robots. It turns out that the word "Robot" comes from the Slavic words Robota (that means work) and Rab (that means slave). The word was first used in the Czech Republic during the Industrial Revolution: workers on factory assembly lines were called robots. And the term "robotics" was coined by the American science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in his story "Round Dance" in 1942. However, of course, the first robots appeared before the word appeared. According to the author of the book, in the 3rd century BC in China, the master inventor Yang Shi presented the emperor with a mechanical man who could move, walk and even express emotions. It was controlled by pulling strings. This is rather a mythologized description, but is considered one of the first mentions of the idea of a humanoid robot. In 1206, the Arab scientist Al-Jazari created robotic musicians with an automatic mechanism that played instruments on a boat. The first practical robot was invented in 1950 by George S. Devol, who patented a programmable robot arm called the “Unimate.” He tried to sell it to industry, but failed. A few years later, in 1960, engineer and entrepreneur Joseph Engelberger bought Devol’s patent, modified it to create an industrial robot and founded Unimation company to manufacture and sell robots. His work and efforts earned him the honorary title of “Father of Robotics” in industry. So, it is amazing that the robots that were once just a fantasy and entertainment, have now become the revolutionizing technology.
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1. AI Robotics: Ethics, Algorithms, and Technology of Artificial Intelligence-Powered Robots
2025 by Vinod Kumar Khanna
This book systematically describes the design of AI robots. The main components of an AI robot are: a central processing unit, graphics processing unit, or special processor to implement ML algorithms (TPU); a camera and LiDAR for vision; a microphone for hearing sounds and a speaker for speech; actuators, sensors, robotic arms with actuators (electric motors, hydraulic/pneumatic devices) to perform manual operations;interfaces (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth) for communication and a power source for energy. Sensors are similar to human sense organs - they allow the robot to perceive the environment, move without colliding with obstacles and perform various other tasks. AI processor acts as robot's brain. It can perform mathematical operations required for AI algorithms in robotics. Unlike traditional chips they have AI-oriented architectural features that allow to perform matrix multiplications significantly faster. These features include performing large numbers of calculations in parallel rather than sequentially, computing low-precision numbers while reducing the number of transistors, accelerating memory access and using programming languages specifically designed to efficiently translate AI computer code for execution on specialized chips.
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2. Artificial Intelligence for Robotics and Autonomous Systems Applications
2023 by Ahmad Taher Azar, Anis Koubaa
This book contains an interesting case study of using CNN for a wheeled mobile robot RAICO, that was programmed to move to a given target while avoiding obstacles. The main goal of the developers was to determine how large (in terms of the number of parameters and layers) CNN models should be to ensure high accuracy of image segmentation (and therefore of obstacle recognition) while maintaining the possibility of running the program on the resource-limited Nvidia Jetson Nano platform. They evaluated three CNN models with different computational complexity, trained on standard datasets and tested on RAICO. The results showed that the best model (RN_8000) in terms of accuracy is the one where the majority of parameters are concentrated in the first layers. Also, the DL system was used to generate a semantic map of the environment (during several attempts to pass different routes in the same space). This was done for optimization, so that after receiving a high-level task, the mobile robot would perform preliminary route planning in order to reach the goal more safely and efficiently. Of course, new obstacles could appear in the process of passing a new route and the system had avoid them, but the semantic map made the new route safer routes.
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3. AI and IoT-Based Intelligent Automation in Robotics
2021 by Ashutosh Kumar Dubey, Abhishek Kumar, S. Rakesh Kumar, N. Gayathri, Prasenjit Das
This book in particular tells the story of the emergence of robots. It turns out that the word "Robot" comes from the Slavic words Robota (that means work) and Rab (that means slave). The word was first used in the Czech Republic during the Industrial Revolution: workers on factory assembly lines were called robots. And the term "robotics" was coined by the American science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in his story "Round Dance" in 1942. However, of course, the first robots appeared before the word appeared. According to the author of the book, in the 3rd century BC in China, the master inventor Yang Shi presented the emperor with a mechanical man who could move, walk and even express emotions. It was controlled by pulling strings. This is rather a mythologized description, but is considered one of the first mentions of the idea of a humanoid robot. In 1206, the Arab scientist Al-Jazari created robotic musicians with an automatic mechanism that played instruments on a boat. The first practical robot was invented in 1950 by George S. Devol, who patented a programmable robot arm called the “Unimate.” He tried to sell it to industry, but failed. A few years later, in 1960, engineer and entrepreneur Joseph Engelberger bought Devol’s patent, modified it to create an industrial robot and founded Unimation company to manufacture and sell robots. His work and efforts earned him the honorary title of “Father of Robotics” in industry. So, it is amazing that the robots that were once just a fantasy and entertainment, have now become the revolutionizing technology.
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