Robot Teams: From Diversity to Polymorphism

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Summary: Enhanced with detailed mathematical formulations
Review: Robot research and development long ago left the realm of science fiction speculation to enter the real world of laboratory science, industrial factory production, space exploration, and even popular entertainment as exemplified by such popular television series as "Robot Wars". In Robot Teams: From Diversity To Polymorphism, Tucker Balch (Carnegie-Mellon University) effectively collaborated with Lynne E. Parker (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) to compile a wealth of up-to-date and cutting edge information, issues, and techniques of multi-robot systems. The reader is provided with all of the essentials of multi-agent robotics theory, descriptions of exemplary implemented systems, and demonstrations of key concepts with respect to multi-robot research. Robot Teams is enhanced with detailed mathematical formulations, photos, diagrams, source code examples, and a forty-four page bibliography for further and more detailed study. Robert Teams is an essential, indispensable, core volume for any professional or academic Robotics Studies program or reference collection.