8: Stochastic Simulation
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- 8.1: Introduction to Stochastic Simulation
- Overview of stochiastic processes and the chapter's focus on random static variables, as they apply to robotic systems.
- 8.2: Monte Carlo Simulation
- Introduction to the Monte Carlo simulation as a method of predicting outcome probability when there is interference from random variables.
- 8.3: Making Random Numbers
- Generating random numbers from an underlying random distribution, to be used in creating the samples of a given distribution that the Monte Carlo simulation requires.
- 8.4: Grid-Based Techniques
- Grid-based techniques: treating calculations on the output variable as an integral over the domain of random variables. Includes use of the trapezoid rule, in one and two dimensions; introduction to Hermite polynomials and their use with the Gaussian pdf to create easily integrated orthagonal polynomials.
- 8.5: Issues of Cost and Accuracy
- Comparison of the Monte Carlo simulation, trapezoid rule, and Gauss-Hermite quadrature as techniques for integration, in terms of accuracy and evaluation cost.