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5: Sensors

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Robots are systems that sense, actuate, and compute. So far, we have studied the basic physical principles of actuation, i.e., locomotion and manipulation, and computation, i.e., inverse kinematics and path-planning. We now need to understand the basic principles of robotic sensors that provide the data-basis for computation. The goals of this chapter are

  • provide an overview of sensors commonly used on robotic systems
  • outline the physical principles that are responsible for uncertainty in sensor-based reasoning


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