Mobile robots range from the Mars Pathfinder mission's teleoperated Sojourner to the cleaning robots in the Paris Metro. This text offers students and other interested readers an introduction to the fundamentals of mobile robotics, spanning the mechanical, motor, sensory, perceptual, and cognitive layers the field comprises. The text focuses on mobility itself, offering an overview of the mechanisms that allow a mobile robot to move through a real world environment to perform its tasks, including locomotion, sensing, localization, and motion planning. It synthesizes material from such fields as kinematics, control theory, signal analysis, computer vision, information theory, artificial intelligence, and probability theory. The book presents the techniques and technology that enable mobility in a series of interacting modules. Each chapter treats a different aspect of mobility, as the book moves from low-level to high-level details. It covers all aspects of mobile robotics, including software and hardware design considerations, related technologies, and algorithmic techniques.] This second edition has been revised and updated throughout, with 130 pages of new material on such topics as locomotion, perception, localization, and planning and navigation. Problem sets have been added at the end of each chapter. Bringing together all aspects of mobile robotics into one volume, Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots can serve as a textbook or a working tool for beginning practitioners.

R. 西格沃特(Roland Siegwart )是瑞士洛桑聯邦理工大學機器人和人工智能研究所産品設計中心主任，自主係統領域教授。

I.R. 諾巴剋什(Illah R. Nourbakhsh)是卡內基梅隆大學計算機科學學院機器人學研究所創新實驗室主任，機器人學教授。

D. 斯卡拉穆紮(Davide Scaramuzza)是瑞士洛桑聯邦理工大學自主係統實驗室高級研究員，講師，歐洲sFly項目組長。