Robotics Algorithms

The Robot Does Not Care How Elegant Your Equation Looks.

If it cannot perceive uncertainty, locate itself, avoid collisions, control its motion, manipulate objects, and recover when reality refuses to match the model, it fails.

Most robotics books make one of two mistakes.

They bury the reader under mathematics without showing how the equations become working autonomous systems. Or they offer disconnected code recipes without explaining the algorithms deeply enough to modify, debug, or improve them.

Robotics Algorithms closes that gap.

This is a rigorous, systems-level guide to the computational methods that make robots perceive, plan, decide, and act. It connects mathematical foundations directly to real-world implementation-from coordinate transformations and Bayesian estimation to SLAM, trajectory optimization, adaptive control, swarm intelligence, robotic manipulation, and autonomous deployment.

Inside, You Will Learn How To:

• Build the mathematical foundations required for modern robotics, including linear algebra, probability, optimization, kinematics, dynamics, Jacobians, and configuration spaces.
• Select and implement motion-planning methods such as A*, Dijkstra's algorithm, RRT, PRM, CHOMP, and model predictive control.
• Fuse noisy sensor data, estimate robotic state, and construct reliable maps using modern localization and SLAM techniques.
• Design stable controllers for mobile robots, manipulators, legged systems, and aerial platforms.
• Apply machine learning and reinforcement learning without losing sight of physical constraints, safety, stability, or real-time performance.
• Coordinate multi-robot teams and swarms through distributed planning, task allocation, communication, and collective decision-making.
• Connect perception to grasping, manipulation, haptics, and human-robot interaction.
• Move from algorithm design to practical implementation using Python, C++, ROS, simulation, testing, and deployment workflows.

Unlike a collection of isolated techniques, Robotics Algorithms shows how the complete robotics stack fits together. You will see how perception affects planning, how planning constrains control, how uncertainty propagates through the system, and why algorithms that succeed in simulation can collapse when placed on real hardware.

The Second Edition expands and strengthens this systems perspective, providing a clearer route from mathematical understanding to reliable autonomous performance.

This book is for engineering students, robotics researchers, software developers, and technical professionals who want more than superficial explanations or copy-and-paste code. It is for readers who want to understand why an algorithm works, when it fails, and how to turn it into part of a capable robotic system.

If you are ready to move beyond demonstrations and start understanding the algorithms that make autonomous machines work, get Robotics Algorithms today.