1. Introduction
1.1. What is a robot?
![../../_images/robots.png](../../_images/robots.png)
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?
![../../_images/robot.png](../../_images/robot.png)
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!
1.3. Robot Autonomy Architecture
![../../_images/Architecture.png](../../_images/Architecture.png)