Smart instrumentation systems are increasingly being deployed on autonomous (robotic) platforms where the robot is required to collect, process, analyse, and interpret sensory information without the intervention of a human operator. Typical examples include unmanned aerial, underwater, and terrain vehicles; marine probes; robotic surgical devices; automated biotissue diagnostic systems; etc.
This topic is designed to acquaint the student with the principles of designing robotic systems, and implementing the sensing capability and artificial intelligence (multiagent systems) necessary to allow the robot to behave autonomously using human like reasoning.
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