Mobile robots, at first sight, are rather different in nature from the serial and parallel robots discussed in other Chapters. However, this Chapter will highlight many similarities, such that no new concepts are needed for a comprehensive treatment of mobile robot kinematics.

An introduction to the field of fuzzy control with a broad treatment of topics including direct fuzzy control, nonlinear analysis, identification/ estimation, adaptive and supervisory control, and applications. This is a textbook with many examples, exercises and design problems, and code available for downloading (also, this book is listed as a Matlab textbook at Mathworks).

An introduction to the field of intelligent control with a broad treatment of topics by several authors (including hierarchical/ distributed intelligent control, fuzzy control, expert control, neural networks, planning systems, and applications). This is an edited monograph with original contributions from each author.

The Sony AIBO robots run a Real time object oriented OS called Aperios. Programs for this environment can be written using the OPENR-SDK available from Sony’s website at www.jp.aibo.com/openr/ (there is a / at the end).