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Chapter 14: Robots in Practice

Chapter 14: Robots in Practice

pp. 342-360

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, McGill University, Montréal, , York University, Toronto
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Although many mobile robot systems are experimental in nature, systems devoted to specific practical applications are being developed and deployed. This chapter examines some of the tasks for which mobile robotic systems are beginning to appear and describes several existing experimental and production systems that have been developed.

Keywords

  • Material transport
  • Intelligent vehicles
  • Robots for survey and inspection
  • Mining automation
  • Space robotics
  • Autonomous aircraft
  • Bomb/mine disposal
  • Underwater inspection
  • Agriculture/forestry
  • Aids for the disabled
  • Entertainment
  • Domestic and commercial cleaning robots
  • Further reading
  • Problems

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