Member news: New book from Ramón Gonzalez

We are pleased to share this news of a new book on mobile robotic path planning from ISTVS member Ramón Gonzalez.

Path Planning of Cooperative Mobile Robots Using Discrete Event Models

Dear all,
it is my great pleasure to share with you that Wiley has just released my new book on mobile robotics: Path Planning of Cooperative Mobile Robots Using Discrete Event Models.

It can be explored by two different audiences: one looking for an intuitive software simulator for teaching robotics-related courses and another audience looking for the state-of-the-art research on path planning considering cell decomposition approaches and multi-robot systems. All the theoretical concepts are explained by using RMTool, a new Matlab-based robotic simulator, which is now freely » available.
Best regards,
Ramón

From the publisher:

DESCRIPTION
Offers an integrated presentation for path planning and motion control of cooperative mobile robots using discrete-event system principles

Generating feasible paths or routes between a given starting position and a goal or target position—while avoiding obstacles—is a common issue for all mobile robots. This book formulates the problem of path planning of cooperative mobile robots by using the paradigm of discrete-event systems. It presents everything readers need to know about discrete event system models—mainly Finite State Automata (FSA) and Petri Nets (PN)—and methods for centralized path planning and control of teams of identical mobile robots.

Path Planning of Cooperative Mobile Robots Using Discrete Event Models begins with a brief definition of the Path Planning and Motion Control problems and their state of the art. It then presents different types of discrete models such as FSA and PNs.

Path Planning of Cooperative Mobile Robots Using Discrete Event Models Publication date // January 2020
Publisher // Wiley
ISBN // 978-1-119-48632-9