Robotics is an ever-expanding field and intelligent planning continues to play a major role. Given that the intention of mobile robots is to carry out tasks independent from human aid, robot intelligence is needed to make and plan out decisions based on various sensors. Planning is the fundamental activity that implements this intelligence into the mobile robots to complete such tasks. Understanding problems, challenges, and solutions to path planning and how it fits in is important to the realm of robotics.

Intelligent Planning for Mobile Robotics: Algorithmic Approaches presents content coverage on the basics of artificial intelligence, search problems, and soft computing approaches. This collection of research provides insight on both robotics and basic algorithms and could serve as a reference book for courses related to robotics, special topics in AI, planning, applied soft computing, applied AI, and applied evolutionary computing. It is an ideal choice for research students, scholars, and professors alike.

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The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

Autonomous Robotics
Data Collection
Localization
Map Building
Mobile Robotics
Motion Planning
Robotic Manipulation and Control
Sensor Fusion
Understanding the Environment
Unmanned Vehicles

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Tiwari, Anupam Shukla (both Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management), and Rahul Kala (U. of Reading, Britain) focus on the planning stage of creating mobile autonomous robots, emphasizing the basics of artificial intelligence, search problems, and soft computing approaches. They cover graph-based path planning, common planning techniques, evolutionary robotics, behavioral path planning, hybrid graph-based methods, hybrid evolutionary methods, and multi-robot systems.

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Ritu Tiwari is an Assistant Professor in the Information and Communication Technology Department of Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior, India. She has 09 years of teaching experience. Her field of research includes Artificial Intelligence, Soft Computing, Biometrics, Bio-Medical Engineering, Robotics and Speech Signal processing. She has published around 40 papers in various national and international journals/conferences. She is the editor and reviewer for international journals/books/conferences and also members of program and technical committees at international conferences. She received Young Scientist Award from Chhattisgarh Council of Science & Technology and also received Gold Medal in her post graduation.

Anupam Shukla is an Associate Professor in the Information and Communication Technology Department of Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior, India. He has 21 years of teaching experience. His research interest includes Artificial Intelligence, Soft Computing, Biometrics, Bio-Medical Engineering, Bioinformatics Robotics, Animation and Signal processing. He has published around 100 papers in various national and international journals/conferences, authored nine book chapters and a book from CRC press. He is the editor and reviewer for reputed international journals/books/conferences; and also member of program and technical committees at international conferences. He received Young Scientist Award from Madhya Pradesh Government and Gold Medal from Jadavpur University in his post graduation.

Rahul Kala is pursuing PhD from School of Cybernetics at University of Reading. He did his Bachelors and Masters in Information Technology from Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management Gwalior. His areas of research are hybrid soft computing, robotic planning, autonomous vehicles, biometrics, artificial intelligence and soft computing. He has published over 50 papers in various international journals and conferences and is the author of 2 books. He is the recipient of Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Program (2010)—UK and is the winner of Lord of the Code Scholarship Contest organized by KReSIT, IIT Bombay and Red Hat. He secured All India 8th position in Graduates Aptitude Test in Engineeging-2008 Examinations.

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