1. Introduction

1.1. What is a robot?

A robot is the sum of:

• Sensors

• Actuators

• Computing

• Communication

• Ability to move

• Intelligence (AI)

The objective is to make robots autonomous!

1.2. How?

We need a lot of things!

• Localization

• Mapping

• Robot Kinematics

• Task allocation

• Planning

We will not focus too much on the robot kinematics, as it is more ingeniering than computer science.

Building a robot is very complicated but awesome!

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF4DML7FIWk

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_lfxPI5ObM

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sUeGC-8dyk

1.3. Robot Autonomy Architecture