Planning Algorithms

Description

Planning algorithms are impacting technical disciplines and industries around the world, including robotics, computer-aided design, manufacturing, computer graphics, aerospace applications, drug design, and protein folding. This coherent and comprehensive book unifies material from several sources, including robotics, control theory, artificial intelligence, and algorithms. The treatment is centered on robot motion planning, but integrates material on planning in discrete spaces. A major part of the book is devoted to planning under uncertainty, including decision theory, Markov decision processes, and information spaces, which are the 'configuration spaces' of all sensor-based planning problems. The last part of the book delves into planning under differential constraints that arise when automating the motions of virtually any mechanical system. This text and reference is intended for students, engineers, and researchers in robotics, artificial intelligence, and control theory as well as computer graphics, algorithms, and computational biology. Review: Book Quality not satisfactory. - Quality does not justify the price I have other hardcover books from Cambridge press and other international presses. The quality of the book I got from this seller is much lower compared to the books I have bought previously. This book feels like it was printed here rather than imported. If that is the case, it was not communicated in the product page clearly. In the picture, the book on the left is my first book from Cambridge press, high quality paper with glossy type finish. On the right is the Planning Algorithms book which is also from Cambridge press which I bought from “Repro books-on-demand” seller , it has a very different (lower quality) Infact the first copy I received had the entire print slanted across the book , and I had to return it and get a new copy. Review: Recommended for anyone in the field of Planning - Perfect book. Well written, covers many areas in planning, almost self contained, and after 25 years still very relevant.