RDA 211

Advanced Control for Mobile Robots

Modelling, Control, Estimation, Planning, ROS and Drones

A mobile robot is a feedback system from its motor drivers to its route planner. Its wheels must turn at commanded speeds against changing loads; its estimate of where it is must be corrected by noisy sensors; its path must avoid obstacles it has only just seen; and a drone must hold its attitude hundreds of times a second while it does all of this in the air. This book teaches the modelling, control, estimation and planning methods that make such robots work, and the software (Python, ROS 2 and simulation) in which they are built today.

21 chapters, 385 pages. Published by RAIN, 2026. Full contents