Over the past decade new approaches have emerged that have revolutionized the design of intelligent robotic systems. Even more recently, research on autonomous agents has undergone a renaissance as it has progressed from its roots in distributed AI. This new series, Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents, joins these research communities together and focuses on their commonalities, such as emergent intelligence, coordinated activity, and situatedness. The series is unique in that it provides a new synergistic perspective that juxtaposes the cognitive and organizational research developed within the autonomous agents community with the hardware-oriented behavioral methods found in today's robotics research laboratories.
The new paradigm for intelligent robotics focuses on physical embodiment. It has concentrated predominantly on lower forms of biological life as an inspiration for the design of robot control systems by exploring reactive and hybrid behavior-based systems, evolutionary and reinforcement learning methods, and enabling perceptual paradigms such as active vision and task-oriented perception. Research on autonomous agents has often concentrated on higher cognitive and organizational activity such as inter-agent communication, negotiation, coordination, conflict, and social behavior. Most results from this community have software embodiments as opposed to their robotic counterparts.
The series will concentrate on volumes that advance the theory, design, and practice of intelligent robots and autonomous agents. Contributions are encouraged from across the broad range of disciplines-computer science, engineering, the biosciences (neuroscience, psychology, ethology), organizational behavior, and economics-that are contributing to progress in these areas.
For information on the submission of proposals and manuscripts, please contact any of the series editors above or the publisher, Ada Brunstein (adab@mit.edu).
Autonomous Bidding Agents Strategies and Lessons from the Trading Agent Competition Michael P. Wellman, Amy Greenwald and Peter Stone
Overview and analysis of algorithmic advances developed within an integrated bidding agent architecture that emerged from recent research in a growing domain of AI. Cloth / August 2007 Price $35.00 | ADD TO CART
Autonomous Robots From Biological Inspiration to Implementation and Control George A. Bekey
An introduction to the science and practice of autonomous robots that reviews over 300 current systems and examines the underlying technology. Cloth / June 2005 Price $60.00 | ADD TO CART
Bio-Inspired Artificial Intelligence Theories, Methods, and Technologies Dario Floreano and Claudio Mattiussi
A comprehensive introduction to new approaches in artificial intelligence and robotics that are inspired by self-organizing biological processes and structures. Cloth / September 2008 Price $50.00 | ADD TO CART
Evolutionary Robotics The Biology, Intelligence, and Technology of Self-Organizing Machines Stefano Nolfi and Dario Floreano
An overview of the basic concepts and methodologies of evolutionary robotics, which views robots as autonomous artificial organisms that develop their own skills in close interaction with the environment and without human intervention. Cloth / November 2000 OUT OF PRINT
Evolutionary Robotics The Biology, Intelligence, and Technology of Self-Organizing Machines Stefano Nolfi and Dario Floreano
An overview of the basic concepts and methodologies of evolutionary robotics, which views robots as autonomous artificial organisms that develop their own skills in close interaction with the environment and without human intervention. Paper / March 2004 Price $30.00 | ADD TO CART
An Introduction to AI Robotics Robin R. Murphy
This text covers all the material needed to understand the principles behind the AI approach to robotics and to program an artificially intelligent robot for applications involving sensing, navigation, planning, and uncertainty. Cloth / November 2000 Price $75.00 | ADD TO CART
Layered Learning in Multiagent Systems A Winning Approach to Robotic Soccer Peter Stone
This book looks at multiagent systems that consist of teams of autonomous agents acting in real-time, noisy, collaborative, and adversarial environments. Cloth / March 2000 Price $50.00 | ADD TO CART
Reasoning about Rational Agents Michael Wooldridge
This book focuses on the belief-desire-intention (BDI) model of rational agents, which recognizes the primacy of beliefs, desires, and intentions in rational action. Cloth / July 2000 Price $45.00 | ADD TO CART
The Robotics Primer Maja J. Mataric
A broadly accessible introduction to robotics that spans the most basic concepts and the most novel applications; for students, teachers, and hobbyists. Paper / September 2007 Price $32.00 | ADD TO CART
Self-Reconfigurable Robots An Introduction Kasper Stoy, David Brandt and David J. Christensen
A comprehensive survey of the growing field of self-reconfigurable robots that discusses the history of the field, design considerations, and control strategies. Cloth / March 2010 Price $35.00 | NOT YET AVAILABLE FOR ORDERING
