The editors (all presently or formerly of the Intelligent System Division of the Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology) present ten chapters that describe current autonomous mobility capabilities for ground vehicles together with anticipated advances and explain the theoretical foundations and engineering approaches underpinning these capabilities. Topics addressed include a methodology for the derivation and organization of knowledge for real-time control systems, behavior generation, world modeling and knowledge representation, sensory processing, temporal registration of sensed range images for autonomous navigation, advanced laser detection and ranging for driving unmanned ground vehicles, standards-based architectural framework for intelligent autonomous vehicles, performance evaluation of autonomous mobile robots, and the development of the Department of Defense's autonomous robotic ground vehicles. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
