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Principles of Robot Motion: Theory, Algorithms, and Implementations

Author: Howie Choset

Robot motion planning has become a major focus of robotics. Research findings can be applied not only to robotics but to planning routes on circuit boards, directing digital actors in computer graphics, robot-assisted surgery and medicine, and in novel areas such as drug design and protein folding. This text reflects the great advances that have taken place in the last ten years, including sensor-based planning, probabalistic planning, localization and mapping, and motion planning for dynamic and nonholonomic systems. Its presentation makes the mathematical underpinnings of robot motion accessible to students of computer science and engineering, rleating low-level implementation details to high-level algorithmic concepts.

Table of Contents:

1	Introduction	1
2	Bug algorithms	17
3	Configuration space	39
4	Potential functions	77
5	Roadmaps	107
6	Cell decompositions	161
7	Sampling-based algorithms	197
8	Kalman filtering	269
9	Bayesian methods	301
10	Robot dynamics	349
11	Trajectory planning	373
12	Nonholonomic and underactuated systems	401
A	Mathematical notation	473
B	Basic set definitions	475
C	Topology and metric spaces	478
D	Curve tracing	487
E	Representations of orientation	489
F	Polyhedral robots in polyhedral worlds	499
G	Analysis of algorithms and complexity classes	513
H	Graph representation and basic search	521
I	Statistics primer	547
J	Linear systems and control	552

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Online Marketing Success Stories: Insider Secrets from the Experts Who Are Making Millions on the Internet Today

Author: Rene V Richards

Standing out in the turmoil of today's Internet marketplace is a major challenge. There are many books and courses on Internet marketing; this is the only book that will provide you with insider secrets. We asked the marketing experts who make their living on the Internet every day—and they talked. Online Marketing Success Stories will give you real-life examples of how successful businesses market their products online. The information is so useful that you can read a page and put the idea into action—today! With e-commerce expected to reach $40 billion and online businesses anticipated to increase by 500 percent through 2010, your business needs guidance from today's successful Internet marketing veterans. Learn the most efficient ways to bring consumers to your site, get visitors to purchase, how to up-sell, oversights to avoid, and how to steer clear of years of disappointment. We spent thousands of hours interviewing, e-mailing, and communicating with hundreds of today's most successful e-commerce marketers. This book not only chronicles their achievements, but is a compilation of their secrets and proven successful ideas. If you are interested in learning hundreds of hints, tricks, and secrets on how to make money (or more money) with your Web site, then this book is for you. Instruction is great, but advice from experts is even better, and the experts chronicled in this book are earning millions. This new exhaustively researched book will provide you with a jam-packed assortment of innovative ideas that you can put to use today. This book gives you the proven strategies, innovative ideas, and actual case studies to help you sell more with less time and effort.