Elements of Robotics

Robotics is a vibrant field which grows in importance from year to year. It is also a subject that students enjoy at all levels from kindergarten to graduate school. The aim of learning robotics varies with the age group. For young kids, robots are an educational toy; for students in middle- and high-schools, robotics can increase the motivation of students to study STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics); at the introductory university level, students can learn how the physics,
mathematics, and computer science that they study can be applied to practical engineering projects; finally, upper level undergraduate and graduate students prepare for careers in robotics.
This book is aimed at the middle of the age range: students in secondary schools and in their first years of university. We focus on robotics algorithms and their mathematical and physical principles. We go beyond trial-and-error play, but we don't expect the student to be able to design and build robots and robotic algorithms that perform tasks in the real world. The presentation of the algorithms without
advanced mathematics and engineering is necessarily simplified, but we believe that the concepts and algorithms of robotics can be learned and appreciated at this level, and can serve as a bridge to the study of robotics at the advanced undergraduate and graduate levels.
[Cham: 2017]

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